Folks who follow this blog and check out or employ the Framework for Civil 3D, quickly recognize that I am a strong advocate for the employment of Survey tools in their Civil 3D production process. No doubt this can be a significant challenge. There are a lot of moving parts and resources to develop in well-built and effective Survey in Civil 3D processes. These days in Civil 3D…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 26, 2019
Tags template, Survey Codes, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, point group, point display, AddOn, video, CAD Standards, Autodesk University
It’s a new month, a change of season, and for some the apparent loss of reason. Time to transform from the Bake to the Freeze in my part of Civil 3D Land.
Sir? Bake and Freeze? Aren’t those drinking games?
Nah. It’s just my calendar reciting the same old cyclical tale. There’s proof in the lunar or lunatic details or lack thereof.Some do howl at the moon because Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 09, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, DOD, spreadsheet, customization, Release 8, Survey Codes, figure prefix db, Description Key Set
We shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel to employ Civil 3D point data successfully. After more than ten releases of Civil 3D that would be dumb. The Pareto Principal, that famous 80 20 Rule, applies to our civil engineering and survey data. I argue, and most civil and survey folk would agree, that 20% of what we gather and create drives a large part of our project…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 04, 2018
Tags point, survey point, Description Key, figure prefix db, not keys, wildcard, CAD Standards, Survey Query, video
We all know about bad assumptions. You believe something is totally obvious. You proceed to talk about a subject that way. People in the crowd nod their heads in affirmation. Meanwhile that same audience is actually completely baffled. This is a pretty common symptom of ED - Expert’s Disease. Oops, that didn’t come out exactly as I intended. You do get what I mean.
I had…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 02, 2018
Tags Survey Codes, survey, figure prefix db, Description Key Set, survey db, point, survey point, video
Most civil engineering and survey firms employ a simple form of codes in the Format column of their Description Keys. There’s no problem with that, but you may be missing some very useful functionality built into AutoCAD Civil 3D’s Description Keys Sets and annotative Label Style power tools.
Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the simply…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 19, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes, survey db, video