Lots of us in Civil 3D Land love to whine about Site Grading in Autodesk Civil 3D. Many of us still employ the classic design by breaklines methodologies from our CAD historical past to produce our production grading designs in Civil 3D. It works. These days most of us might agree that Civil 3D Feature Lines are an improvement over AutoCAD 3D polylines.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 08, 2023
Tags grading, site design, feature line, Multiple Baseline Corridors, corridor, corridor surface, video
What is the Templates Only for Autodesk Civil 3D product? We get this question a lot for understandable reasons. We claim that Templates Only is a trial product. Templates Only is the quick and easy way to get a taste of our most popular product - Jump Kit is the Framework for Civil 3D. Folks want to know, “Does it work?”
The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 01, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Templates Only, Jump Kit, design, survey
How many times in Autodesk Civil 3D do we get a complex civil engineering design or survey dataset right the first time? Almost never. This reality is a most important fact about Civil 3D. To employ Civil 3D constructively in a real-world project-based production environment, we need to plan to fail forward.
What the heck does that mean?Sounds like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2022
Tags iterations, DREF, design control, design state, grading, Multiple Baseline Corridors, DWF, iPOD, Project Management
Autodesk Civil 3D includes many powerful and capable grading tools. We each develop our go to lists of favorites and preferred workflows to follow. Ted is a Feature Lines Only fanatic. Sally is a Site Design Corridor wunderkind. The company design group in Tulsa banned the use of Civil 3D Grading Objects in all projects. We know the drill.
Our preferred…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 16, 2022
Tags Grading Optimization, AEC Collection, Civil 3D 2023, grading, site design, Multiple Baseline Corridors, Corridors, video, implementation
Autodesk Grading Optimization (GO) is one year old this year. Grading Optimization 2023 is effectively the third major release of GO. We might consider the GO 2022.1 Update as important. That Update contained significant improvements to the GO Tools, performance, and functionality.
Based on my recent GO 2023 playtime experience, the much…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 28, 2022
Tags Grading Optimization, GO, Civil 3D 2023, Jump Kit, site design, video, surface, feature line