Civil 3D Corridors become ever more useful for Site Design tasks. If we insist that our old school CAD perceptions of the civil engineering design issues and workflows are correct, in effect, we believe that our old AutoCAD habits and skills are more important than any new Civil 3D skills and the ever-increasing capabilities of Civil 3D itself. This is us being human. This is just…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 04, 2018
Tags grading, site design, AU 2018, corridors, feature line, surface, video, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
Let’s face it - Surfaces play a huge role in civil engineering and survey work. When I train people in AutoCAD Civil 3D surfaces I frequently get this question:
“Is there any way for me to see what changes I’ve made to a Civil 3D Surface?”
First things first. Did you visualize the surface with at least 3 different Civil 3D Surface Style Tools?
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I make…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 01, 2017
Tags surface, Surface Style, analysis, Project Management, implementation, grading, corridors, video
“No way.”
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Yes way. Release 7 of Framework for Civil 3D provides everything you need. You think that’s one heck of a brash claim? The truth is our customers never complain about that. Most new customers are simply stunned at the bang for the buck. Come on, folks.
This is what we do – Make…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 08, 2016
Tags Jump Kit, Style, corridor, corridor surface, superelevation, grading, video
Folk complain that AutoCAD Civil 3D is not really user friendly about Site Design. The complaint is true if you insist that site design in Civil 3D should be like it was for years in Land Desktop. Unfortunately, about the only thing Civil 3D has in common with Land Desktop is it’s use of similar but historically deceptive Ribbon names such as Surface, Grading, Parcel, and Alignment.
You…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 10, 2016
Tags grading, site design, corridors, standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, corridor surface, surface
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