Autodesk Civil 3D is a feature rich production environment for surveyors and civil engineers. We all discover that Civil 3D requires customization to be usable in real world projects. The cost of this Civil 3D Template, Civil 3D Style, and other mission-critical resource development may quickly become greater than the cost of the software itself.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 15, 2022
Tags point, figure, Survey Query, figure prefix db, Description Key Set, iPOD, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, video, Jump Kit
If you use Autodesk Civil 3D in any release, the odds are that you employ LandXML (and some of the other supported ASCII text formats) inside your civil engineering and survey projects. If you don’t at least employ LandXML to backup and protect externally Civil 3D Features like Surfaces, Parcels, Alignments…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 30, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, landxml, alignment, profile, Quick Profile, surface, DREF, video, Description Key Set, figure prefix db
The mastery of Points is nothing to take lightly in Autodesk Civil 3D. Like that old saying, “It’s all about location, location, location, Baby.” Points are foundational in the civil engineering and survey professional disciplines. Then your favorite software vendor’s programmers take over.
Points are one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D speak.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 31, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Update, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, customization, video, WATT, spreadsheet
We released the latest and greatest version of the Framework for Civil 3D Codes Spreadsheet Tool this week. The Codes Tool is intentionally both Civil 3D and Framework release agnostic. We are talking about managing the Codes we employ to gather and annotate locations in Civil 3D. The language that we employ to talk about locations (the Codes) doesn’t care about…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 11, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Release 8, Civil 3D 2020, codes, Survey Codes, figures, figure prefix db, spreadsheet, Layer Standards
The Framework for Civil 3D includes a powerful Survey Codes Spreadsheet Tool. The tool is a favorite of many Framework customers. The Codes Tool is employed to externally manage and maintain both Survey and Design Codes that may be employed in Descriptions Keys, Description Key Sets, Figure Prefix Db, Survey Queries, Point Group definitions, and even Civil 3D Corridor…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 06, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Civil 3D, spreadsheet, AddOn, Release 8, Release 7, Survey Codes, points, figures, figure prefix db, customization, NCS, NCS 6.0