My Super Bowl weekend I spent rebuilding my workday computer workstation. Sometimes the painful truth of the perverse nature of inanimate objects slaps you upside the head. We all know the drill. The whine is ready before its time. No drive whine for me. A new fat SSD rocks.
I probably install more versions of a lot of Autodesk apps than most folk. Afterall the Framework for Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 05, 2019
Tags dwf, layers, ULAYERS, plan production tool, project template, video, publish on demand, Release 7, Release 8
I fear that my provocative choice of title here may get this website black-listed as an alt-right or racist conspiracy perpetrator by the nameless and faceless algorithms at Google, Bing, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. As an admitted serial entrepreneur and disruptive small business person the lack of persons personally accountable in that process distresses me, as it should you. That…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 25, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, management, Layer Manager, filter, layer state, layers, template, CAD Standards
Autodesk finally got around to much-needed, major improvements in basic AutoCAD functionality to manage and employ both Named Views, the MVIEW command, and XREF layer overrides in all AutoCAD based software with the recent release of the AutoCAD 2018.1 Update.
It’s About Time – Our Time
These new and improved core AutoCAD tools should mean you can produce better…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 01, 2017
Tags AutoCAD 2018, Civil 3D 2018, Update, layout, layers, layer state
I mumbled Export from Civil 3D things for civil engineers and surveyors; waved my hands about DWF; and then sent the folks off to go paint the fence and wash the dishes. As with many useful skills in life:
Doing Offers the Eyes to See
It DOES.
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 13, 2017
Tags export, layers, block, symbol, DGN, Layer Standards, Symbol Set
The Release 7 Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 wave is almost upon us. Here’s the first swell in the set. We released a free Layer Standards Update this week to all the current Framework for Civil 3D products. That free download includes Release 7 Framework InstantOn and Jump Kit products for 2017, 2016, and 2015.
Framework customers get the good stuff. They ride the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 16, 2017
Tags layers, Layer Standards, NCS, GSA, spreadsheet, CAD Standards