Most of the people we talk to everyday are advanced Civil 3D users, CAD Managers, and organization Project Managers and Principals who try to get work out the door and keep the wheels on the bus. Many of these folks are literally rebuilding the Civil 3D Magic Bus while it rolls down the road.
That is truly an act of daring do. That is also something we all must do.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 29, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, feature line, alignment, surface, DREF, XREF, IREF, parcel, Project Management, benchmark, heuristic
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment; its child Profiles; its child Offset Alignments; their slope-controlled Offset Profiles; Widenings; Intersections; Curb Return Alignments; and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins.…
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Tench Tilghman
May 16, 2024
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization
Any exhaustive discussion about the big topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the hopefully, familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D’s Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the essential and functional…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2024
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types
Autodesk recently released an Update for Civil 3D 2024. The Autodesk Civil 3D 2024.3 Update includes new workflow Enhancements and performance upgrades for Corridor workflows and a significant list of performance improvements and fixes to the Civil 3D code.
The Corridor workflow improvements include the ability to select multiple Alignment/Profile pairs…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 08, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2024, Update, Multiple Baseline Corridors, Multiple Dynamic Baselines, DREF, Corridors, feature line, alignment, profile
Good Stuff! Project Explorer for Civil 3D (PE) is thankfully built into the new Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 install and the PE is now readily available the Civil 3D Right Click menus and Toolspace interfaces.
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However, Autodesk Grading Optimization (GO) for Civil 3D 2024 remains a separate install.
The good news - like the PE, GO now only requires access…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 12, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2024, Grading Optimization, Project Explorer, grading, site design, feature line, video