For regular attendees AU 2017 in Las Vegas, NV starts today. If you work for Autodesk or are a developer, the odds are AU 2017 is one or even more days old. You could be already bleary-eyed and foot sore. This year AU is at the Venetian not at the MGM Grand. Been there. Done That. Don’t need a scooter.
Enjoy yourself. I always do. My favorite part of Autodesk University…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 14, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Jump Kit, Templates Only, customization
In Civil 3D Land we all have a love to hate relationship with new product releases. Whether the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 is ready for prime time in your neck of the woods depends on lots of factors. I’m a long-time developer of Civil 3D template and Civil 3D style tool products. My perspective is somewhat different and yet very much the same. Your productivity matters. The implementation of new…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 25, 2017
Tags project, project template, sheet template, customization, plan production tool
Autodesk folk say everyone wants an AutoCAD Civil 3D built their way. I believe professional civil engineers and surveyors really want their expensive Autodesk code to work and produce work that is acceptable to them and those that they deliver too. If that’s the goal of your AutoCAD Civil 3D customization, we can work with that.
We build and maintain the most downloaded, most used, and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 18, 2017
Tags implementation, customization, CAD Standards, training, block, symbol, Layer Standards
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 introduced Reference Templates. The concept of Reference Templates is to finally deliver a way to standardize Civil 3D Style Management a bit more effectively. We can now systematically manage the Styles in your current production template by referencing Civil 3D Styles from other separate Reference Templates. These are included a managed stack…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 19, 2017
Tags Reference Template, template, Style Management, Style, implementation, customization
The Framework for Civil 3D naming conventions for Assemblies and Assembly Sets help Civil 3D users make sense of their common civil engineering design Assembly solutions in their daily production work.
We’ve supplied AASHTO compliant roadway assemblies for many releases of AutoCAD Civil 3D all the way back to the 2008 release. These days we supply assemblies for most of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 12, 2017
Tags Assembly, intersection, Subassembly, Assembly Set, customization, naming conventions, names