Most years I spend the post-AU month of December at work on planned improvements to the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D. This year is no exception. More about that next time. I trust you recognize that this does not mean that any of us can afford to have…
A Business as Usual Attitude
Far from it. If this last couple of months tells us anything, it screams that the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 02, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Update, Subassembly, Survey, query, deliverables, iPOD
Last time we talked about the Neglected Features in Civil 3D. If we are going to learn to employ Intersections and Survey Dbs successfully for Better Information Management Execution (BIME), we are going to smash face first into the AutoCAD Civil 3D Design Control Manager- aka the Alignment. No…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 10, 2017
Tags design control, alignment, iPOD, implementation, video, deliverables
AutoCAD Civil 3D is stuffed like a platter of Football Playoff Day nachos with an overwhelming number of ways and tools to manipulate our civil engineering and survey data. I’ve said it before. In Civil 3D it pays to ask the question:
“What Do You Watch?
It’s All About that Data Behind.”Happy New Year! Get that mojo workin’. To get more from what we have we must think outside…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2017
Tags deliverables, point group, Point Label Style, annotation, implementation, video
“You suggested on the phone that I root around in the project dataset that you supply with Jump Kit. You pointed me to example drawings on the phone. These days I don’t expect much from examples supplied by software people like Autodesk. I was pleasantly surprised.
Every time I get stuck in my work I root around in your project and manage to figure out how to make the magic…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 16, 2016
Tags training, InstantOn, Jump Kit, project, video, deliverables, Release 7
I hope you caught the recent planetary news out of Caltech that our solar system may indeed have a new ninth planet. Mike Brown, who led the crusade to change Pluto’s formal classification to a dwarf planet from a planet, and his research partner,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 26, 2016
Tags Description Key Set, point group, point, deliverables, video