Anyone who trains and helps folks in AutoCAD Civil 3D runs into the “All in one” drawing. In this drawing the user builds the existing surface. The drawing also contains the design alignment and profile data too. Maybe they even get as far as an attempt to build a roadway rehabilitation corridor to repave that city street. Maybe at that point they realize they are stuck. How do they test options…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Dec 09, 2014
It happens. You’ve got your head down banging away on your latest Civil 3D project. Maybe this is even your first real attempt at an AutoCAD Civil 3D project. We certainly provide real world Civil 3D template and Civil 3D Style solutions that many folks think help a lot.
You find you’ve created and checked a surface from survey data, actually…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 01, 2013
Tags alignment, Dynamiic Model, data shortcut, data reference, model
There’s an elegant simplicity to Data Shortcut and Data Reference (DREF) functionality in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Autodesk just built an XML based “website”. We can call it a website because a Data Shortcut is a published link in a simple folder structure. Through that structure of links we are allowed share the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2013
Tags Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, 2012, 2013, 2014, DREF, XREF
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
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?
Queries About Survey and… Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 03, 2012
Tags 2013, Civil 3D, surface, corridor surface, data reference, data shortcut, survey, survey db