Happy New Year! Let’s proactively start the New Year with a talk about some practical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
I manage and maintain an enormous set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D. Most folks see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D products that are delivered from this site. I had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, Style Library, Update
The Framework for Civil 3D is designed and built to be a consistent, robust, and adaptive managed system to help organizations and daily Civil 3D users employ Civil 3D in actual production project environments.
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The Framework is The Managed Toolset for Civil 3D.
If you employ Civil 3D, you want a copy of the Framework for Civil 3D.
Here are some of the many reasons…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 01, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, NCS, Templates Only, Jump Kit, Reference Template, Project Management, Style Management, Style Library, video
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
How we must express ourselves and our Civil 3D Surface data with Spot Elevation Labels is far from the simple task it first appears. We all know nothing in Civil 3D as simple as it first appears. We face the somewhat unnerving deliverables publication challenge of What if.
What if our client’s reasonable demand for a specific civil engineering…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 24, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Label Style, surface, Expression Set, Style Library, Style Management, video, Jump Kit, AddOn
Autodesk halted the availability of the Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5 Update late last week. Oh, no. This somewhat embarrassing recall (or whatever you want to call it) was based on customer issues and complaints regarding the new Civil 3D 2020.5 Update code. As of this post there is no formal Autodesk statement or official public list of the reasons and issues found for the Civil 3D…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 13, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, Upgrade, template, Style, Style Library, Style Management, Jump Kit, Templates Only