Feature Line Baselines in Corridors are a big deal in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I also like the basic cleanups in corridors with angular horizontal control. It’s been a long wait for them. Technically, I wish Autodesk had implemented them differently and gone the extra mile. Here’s a brain bender. What’s the difference between a Feature…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 28, 2016
Tags grading, corridor, Civil 3D 2017, Code Set Styles, survey figure, alignment, feature line, standard keys
You employ the Civil 3D Import Points tool all the time. This can be a good thing employed properly or something very scary. It could be a flashback to 1984 or Animal Farm and be horribly Orwellian. You may recall that “All pigs are created equal”.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 22, 2016
Tags survey, survey db, survey figure, point, point display, setup, settings
I’m an avid proponent of the use of AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Dbs. If I need to track and annotate location in its many forms, I use them. We have multiple in-depth video series our Members can watch and learn about how to do that in your own projects. Productive stuff like how to get Survey data related to Alignments.
I’ve said before our old…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 07, 2016
Tags survey db, COGO points, survey point, figure, video
Could the Management of your customizations of AutoCAD Civil 3D be made any easier? You bet.
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We work at improving that process and the tools behind all the time.
We do have a certain demonstrable skill set in these arcane Civil 3D details after all.
Our Production Solution products were/are systematically engineered and built to put the personalization…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 16, 2015
Tags spreadsheet, customization, tools, Description Key Set, figure db
Service Pack 3 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 was released by Autodesk in early June. Sorry. I’ve been kinda like the White Rabbit with the advent of Release 6.
The new SP3 for Civil 3D 2015 fixes some really annoying Export to AutoCAD (or should we say Dumb down to ACAD?) errors. There were some basic surface manipulation problems that occurred in 2015…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 12, 2015
Tags Service Pack, Civil 3D 2015, export, surface, survey db, point, figure