The Wizard is an operative fact in modern software. Autodesk programmers love to employ the beasts. Wizards do make workflow and user data collection easier to manage. AutoCAD Civil 3D has more than a few mission critical ones.
The current Civil 3D publication methodology based on Alignments is very wizard centric. Our discussions of many details of that became part of our Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 08, 2016
Tags alignment, intersection, horizontal control, vertical control, cross section control, video
I do try to pay attention to what’s happening in Civil 3D Land. Autodesk is always up to something, don’ ja know.
The fact is other folks also do some really cool stuff. Some of it is artful and simply genius.
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Some of that we may sooner or later get our hands on too.
Last month I caught an FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation) internal training webinar with something very…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 01, 2016
Tags alignment, intersection, tools, Productivity Pack, video
People have been bugging me for quite a while to collect recorded Civil 3D training gems. Yes. There’s already one of the largest collections of free Civil 3D video training available here. No one does everything. No one knows everything either. There’s never enough time. Frankly, I get tired of talking to the wall too. Surprise. I, like you, must also study…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 03, 2016
Tags video, Infraworks, Civil 3D, intersection, training
Want to be a civil engineering design wizard in AutoCAD Civil 3D? You must master the Intersection Wizard. The Intersection Wizard sits atop the magic design control tower in Civil 3D. The way to the top seems to go around and around.
That means you must have established a mastery over the Civil 3D Design Control Manager – the Alignment…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 27, 2015
Tags design control, alignment, corridor, intersection, training
Just about a year ago I wrote a post called Point Dreams in the Annotative View Space which dealt with some of the issues we all have with AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Features. There are lots of posts here about the Points beast for a host of reasons – mostly customer…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2012
Tags alignment, catchment, corridor, feature line, intersection, point, point group, point display, profile, pressure pipe, pipes, surface, wish