Does it help us to explore the end of things to discover a path to a better beginning?
Questions like this are worth consideration in the circular and iterative process world of Autodesk Civil 3D.
In this Book of Alignments series of posts, we talk about the Alignment as a Design Control Manager in Autodesk Civil 3D. There are at least a dozen management…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 06, 2021
Tags alignment, naming conventions, Name Template, View Frame Group, ViewFrame, plan production tool, DREF, group labels
I enjoy finding examples and folks who creatively learn to employ the Power of Not to production work in Autodesk Civil 3D. Huh? What the hay does the Power of Not mean? I trust that you do understand the difference between the Boolean logic of AND and OR in expressions. Eheh.
NOT is the third chord (the…
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Tench Tilghman
May 25, 2021
Tags Data Shortcut Manager, Data Behind, not keys, Project Management, points, Point Label Style, site design, corridors, grading
Phi, Fi, Foe, Fum. I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread. Like a lot of well-remembered fairy tales, this fantasy giant chant from Jack in the Beanstalk – aka Jack the Giant Killer - tis a bit creepy. Say whot? Ok. If I quoted Shakespeare’s take in King Lear, you’d be equally lost.
What does the growth of magic beans, ancient…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 22, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, Expression Set, Label Style, AddOn
The on-going Style Maintenance of our Civil 3D Templates is a significant and complex information management problem. There is the raw numbers problem. There are lots of kinds of Civil 3D Feature Styles and many types of Civil 3D Label Styles for us to manage.
There is the larger critical path Style problem - the variety of purpose. The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 08, 2021
Tags Style Management, Style, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Civil 3D, Upgrade, Update, property, implementation
When we create something new and innovative, that product should make a productive difference in the lives of real folks doing the real work. We released the new and powerful Framework for Civil 3D Release 8 Spot Label Style AddOns for Civil 3D 2021 and Civil 3D 2020 last week. This Spot Label Style AddOn was the second Framework Label Style Expression Set for Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 04, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Label Style, surface, Expression Set, expressions, Style Library, video, Jump Kit, grading, corridor, site design