Autodesk continues to improve the capabilities and performance of their new design grading application tool – Autodesk Grading Optimization (GO). Grading Optimization was initially released with the Civil 3D 2022 introduction last spring. Sadly, GO is not a part of Civil 3D. Like the powerful and useful Project Explorer for Civil 3D, Grading…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 18, 2022
Tags Grading Optimization, GO, Civil 3D 2022, Update, NCS 6.0, STB, CTB, video, Layer Standards, CAD Standards
The art of production and publication Civil 3D Standards is all about the construction and maintenance of managed, known, and current States. There is no singularity in Civil 3D Standards. After all, we are talking about sets of sets of variable properties that must work together at known and identifiable points…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 23, 2020
Tags Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Adaptive, Adoption, layer state, layer filter, video, NCS, standard keys
The Autodesk Civil 3D team made some major progress on the functionality of Pressure Pipes in Autodesk Civil 3D 2021. Lordy, Lordy! They finally introduced the concept and practice of the Runs into the Pressure Pipe interface and tools. Ok. If we use that now famous and comely term “Lordy”, some tongue in cheek is clearly understood. It is sort…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 12, 2020
Tags pressure pipe, pressure pipe network, Civil 3D 2021, layer state, Layer Standards, View, View Frame, video
The Framework for Civil 3D out of the box supports multiple Layer Standards with adaptive conversion. The NCS 6.0, NCS 6.0 AIA and older NCS 5.0 flavors are supplied for example. Why would anyone want to do that? Everyone one knows one Layer Standard is nasty enough to maintain and employ. The common misconception of a Layer Standard at times sounds something like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 07, 2020
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, layer state, Release 8, Release 7, standard keys, video, customization
Most of us in Civil 3D Land are fans and daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D. We all can guess, based on history and leaks in the Autodesk cistern, that we’ll be seeing the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 any day now. The specifics of the new release may not knock your socks off. Many of us have other concerns at the moment. The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 14, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Revit, AutoCAD 2021, Dynamo, Dynamo Player, Layer Standards, layer state, customization, video