Whew! I had to take a break from Parcels in AutoCAD Civil 3D. To do an in depth series of posts on the Site Parcel is in a good and useful thing. I learned a lot. I trust your eyes maybe open wider. The practical daily reality of Civil 3D’s interconnected Dynamic Model is powerful.
I always seek to find new and better ways to try and…
Tell the Story of How AutoCAD Civil 3D Works
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 26, 2013
Tags bucket, data shortcut, data reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, project
People tend to ring me up and ask the same stuff over and over. (Like things really change between releases or something ;). That’s a good thing for me and I trust for them too. Posts are often a somewhat imperfect answer to the issue at hand and maybe help get us on the right track.
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 07, 2012
Tags implementation, management, Project Management, DREF, XREF, data reference, reference, base map
No release of AutoCAD Civil 3D would be complete without some new Surface creation and edit updates. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 is no exception. Surfaces in 2013 deserve a Civil 3D blog post or two of their own. We can be both more indirect or direct about our “data” references in Surface Features. Huh?
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 03, 2012
Tags 2013, Civil 3D, surface, corridor surface, data reference, data shortcut, survey, survey db
Are you completely Data Spaced out?
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Could getting to that spacey stuff that's stuck over there really make you day?
Want to shave light years off your spatial data travel time?
Do you want a lightspeed way to convert…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 18, 2011
Tags autodesk labs, gis, spatial data, FDO
I make my living helping real people adopt and make AutoCAD Civil 3D work. Don't get the title of this post wrong. I do think Civil 3D needs to get easier to learn and use. I bitch about that a LOT to Autodesk and try to make many positive and constructive suggestions.
You should bitch too.
Here's the link to the Bitch List...er...Civil 3D Wish List.
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 14, 2011
Tags surface, grading, bugs, label, annotation, XREF, data reference, data shortcut