What are the most important features in Civil 3D? Autodesk has a different answer to that question for every new release of Civil 3D and each new Update for Civil 3D. Autodesk wants to answer the Features and Benefits sales and marketing questions. They do sell us software after all. Maybe whatever is the hot new Autodesk thing this time around floats your boat?…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 04, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, alignment, profile, corridor, feature line, surface, widening, landxml, video
All of us in Civil 3D Land know learning to come to grips with Civil 3D is easier said than done. Autodesk Civil 3D is a big complex piece of software. We must learn to manage and direct the Civil 3D Diva to deliver acceptable performances. We are talking about integrated software tools that must cope with the many and varied details of complex…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 26, 2020
Tags grips, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, alignment, feature line, profile, surface, video, corridor, point, parcel segment
It is probably fair to say that I’m often more face down in Civil 3D Object Model nuances than a lot of daily Civil 3D users. That makes sense. My personal work depends on that. I build, support and help people implement Civil 3D production environments with the best in-depth collections of Civil 3D Styles, Civil 3D Templates, and other vital Civil 3D resources available on the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 27, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, feature, feature line, alignment, surface, breakline, DREF, XREF, IREF, parcel, Project Management
We can make the annotation of Complex Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D faster, better, and more consistent. A Complex Corridor is one of those Multiple Baseline beasties (or beauties) that can model our design solutions more effectively.
Autodesk invests seriously on improving the Civil 3D Corridor engine’s capabilities. Today, Civil 3D users to can grade…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 18, 2020
Tags corridor, annotation, group labels, Label Style, feature line, View Features, Survey Codes, survey db, spreadsheet, video
I prefer Gin over Vodka and a good IPA over both. I’m decidedly not James Bond. My car certainly doesn’t cut it. I totally missed the Cash for Clunkers thing. A stated choice of a lethal weapon would probably would not be polticially correct. We’ll avoid that trigger to focus on more important Civil 3D 2020.2 Update matters.
There have been Civil 3D related Updates and enhancements related…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 12, 2019
Tags SHP, XML, Property Set, points, feature line, figure, Enhancements, Civil 3D 2020, Update, utility, Connector, ESRI