What you want to snuggle up with for a cold, mid-January winter weekend is the new release of Infraworks. Autodesk calls it/him/her - Infraworks 2020 Update 2. Autodesk’s Update language as applied to Infraworks remains a head scratcher.
What marketing and sales do with the arcane Autodesk licensing and subscription mechanics often seem to befuddle everyone. Folks, you got…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 21, 2020
Tags Infraworks, interop, Civil 3D 2020, Update, Upgrade, implementation, ArcGIS, Connector, Dynamo, Dynamo Player, ESRI
There is a chance this post will yak about the new Infraworks 2020.1 release and the Civil 3D 2020.1+ Update wizbang before the new public build of Infraworks 2020.1 slaps us in the face. Autodesk has a bunch of important Infraworks/Civil 3D interop AddOns to update and sync up as well.
Autodesk has released public videos of some of the new Infraworks 2020.1 release features…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 26, 2019
Tags Infraworks, Civil 3D 2020, Update, ArcGIS, alignment, profile, interop, video
The Autodesk and ESRI interoperability agreement was big industry news last year. Some might say this was like Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali deciding to be best buds and then become a WWF tag team. Talk about being up in someone’s grill. Sorry George Foreman. I just couldn’t resist.
Both the BIM/AEC/CAD gorilla and the GIS gorilla had good strategic and tactical reasons to do this in the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, ArcGIS, interop, gis, parcel, alignment, feature line, video, Connector, ESRI
For reasons that remain even a mystery even to me, this month has been a collection of large-scale project questions and answers. Everyone who called seemed to have a larger and more complex project in the works. They were all head down in the practical details of large SurveyDb projects or big lidar point cloud data sets coupled in their projects with lots of connected models delivered in various…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 26, 2018
Tags Infraworks, Civil 3D 2019, Update, Revit, coordinate system, Project Management, video, project, ArcGIS
People love and sometimes hate the Bing Maps satellite aerial image functionality inside AutoCAD Civil 3D and all AutoCAD based apps. Perhaps a lot of you just ignore the whole public image thing? The better view of the big picture context can and does help us get our civil engineering design and survey work done a bit quicker. These days we have more choices. The imagery choices…
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