Too often our AutoCAD tool user perspective tends to get in the way of productive work. Let’s put the issue in frank terms. People think we use AutoCAD to draw pictures. Well, don’t we? But AutoCAD employs data to create pictures. This is something entirely different. Civil 3D employs an even more structured form of data than raw AutoCAD. I like to call this…
The Civil 3D Data Behind
That…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 07, 2018
Tags surface, import, export, workflow, Civil 3D 2019, Infraworks, video, data, publish on demand, iPOD
Autodesk has AutoCAD users well trained. You buy the product and then immediately begin customizing the product to meet your needs. We expect this. We accept this. With the One AutoCAD 2019 release you’ll get the classic Autodesk AutoCAD-based vertical solutions now called Toolsets. You’ll have to customize the Toolset to make that work too. Perhaps the new Toolset…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 03, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Style Management, Style Import, Style Purge, CAD Standards, template
Someone asked me this week what I think about the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I quickly replied,
“It’s about time…
Your time. My time. Every Civil 3D user’s time.”Time will also tell whether the many new and powerful forms of reference poured out in Civil 3D 2017 stay stable in complex production level projects. They must to be successful. I expect with proper…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 21, 2016
Tags Style Management, Style, Style Import, Civil 3D 2017, template
We have this thing we call CAD Standards to improve our ability to communicate complex ideas and information to others consistently. When we talk "Standards" this means we are talking about forms of human language and interpretation. This is truly deep stuff. I won't go there. This is this practical post.
Seek and Find the Known Good
We need to take the time to assess if our current…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jan 21, 2015
Once in a while I read a post somewhere else that makes me nervous for the folks that read it.
The Being Civil blog is pretty good about not handing out bogus and/or partially incorrect information. No one is perfect. I've done it myself a few times with all the best intentions.Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 15, 2012
Tags bugs, Description Key Set, import, Style Management, management, standards