Why would some of the largest and most densely populated counties in the US adopt the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D?
Why would one of the country’s largest cities adopt the Framework as a City CAD Standard?
Why would companies that employ both AutoCAD Civil 3D and Microstation to perform project work find it easier to adopt the Framework?
Why would departments and locations…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 07, 2016
Tags implementation, Civil 3D 2015, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2017, CAD Standards
What did Autodesk do in the latest Civil 3D release? Good stuff? Bad stuff? Useless stuff? What do you think?
Civil 3D users cannot count on the potential reality that Autodesk will change their software into what any Civil 3D user wants. No one really expects that. We all hope they will. Users do not choose what Autodesk decides to build and/or fix either in spite of expensive marketing…
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Tench Tilghman
May 03, 2016
Tags implementation, Release 6, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, management, Jump Kit
You are one of those people who gets to build and care for your organization’s template(s) for AutoCAD Civil 3D. You’re a smart and you are a skilled and experienced Civil 3D user. The people around you depend on you for that. The odds are you probably follow this Jump on Civil 3D blog and others like it to keep up when you have the time.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 02, 2016
Tags template, style, Style Management, implementation, Civil 3D 2015, Civil 3D 2016
Civil 3D Styles and Label Styles employ (reference) the AutoCAD named parts to express themselves. Civil 3D Style tools just look for and match the right names that we’ve agreed to. Change the meaning of the property definitions connected to those agreed names and you can change anything.
In formal terms employing the practice of Style management…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 28, 2016
Tags implementation, training, bucket, Name Template, dynamic model, names, Style Management
At the root of the NCS system is the concept of Standard Keys. These are most often connected to the NCS rules of Standard Layers and the way drawing information is published. The concept and implemented practice of Standards Keys can do a lot more than that. We employ Standard Keys all over the place in the Production…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 21, 2016
Tags standard keys, layers, implementation, customization, video