There’s a new Civil 3D 2020.1+ Update and a new Civil 3D 2019.3+ Update on the street. If you are in the middle of a project, you have other more practical concerns for the moment. You have concerns that a new Update may break something you depend on. It happens more often than we like.
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We could call this the Does Mikey Like It? approach to…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 19, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, pipe network, analysis, landxml, feature line, video
Point Wizardry, Surface Wizardry, and these days - Corridor Wizardry are each important and creative aspects of Civil 3D tradecraft. By Civil 3D tradecraft and craftmanship I mean those mission critical skill sets wrenched and painfully derived from the real project work that allow some Civil 3D users to become super productive…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 13, 2019
Tags point, survey db, Survey Codes, feature line, annotation, Description Key, Description Key Set, Project Management, CAD Standards, point group, video
It’s a pretty good bet that most folk consider Points to be pretty much a survey thing in Civil 3D. It’s even a better bet that these same folks have complaints about Civil 3D’s point display representations, or rather point resolutions. It’s sad but true. Many want and still try and force Civil 3D to behave like Land Desktop, Eagle Point, or some other old school…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 08, 2019
Tags point, survey db, Survey Codes, Survey Query, feature line, annotation, Description Key, Description Key Set, Project Management, CAD Standards
What makes me shudder are the rash of upcoming vision metaphors for anything related to 2020. Want to bet Autodesk marketing does it? Can you imagine the 2020 political campaign ads? Want to count the blind leading the blind allegories? If they get us focused on the count, we won’t notice how they play Three Card Monte. Hardly anyone will be able to resist. Eheh.
We are soon to be bombarded…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 07, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Style Management, corridor, feature line, DREF, XREF, Reference Template, project template
We introduced in the latest Release 8 versions of the Framework for Civil 3D for Civil 3D 2019 and Civil 3D 2018, a much improved and innovative form of Civil 3D Style library collection. We call these Civil 3D Style library collected resources - Adaptive Template Building Blocks. It’s a new thing in Civil 3D Land.
People have asked, “What…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 23, 2019
Tags Style Management, Style, alignment, profile, section, feature line, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, Adaptive Template Building Blocks