Do we ask the right questions about Civil 3D and how we use it?
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By definition…Probably not. We human beings tend to not ask questions about what we believe we already know how to do. We rely too much on habit. We could call this the human autopilot. The autopilot works 95%+ of the time. Our brains spend a good deal of invisible time behind the scenes working on those building those structures…
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Tench Tilghman
May 18, 2021
Tags customization, implementation, alignment, points, surface, corridor, grading, Jump Kit, Templates Only, project template, Style Management
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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Tench Tilghman
Apr 08, 2021
Tags Style Management, Style, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Civil 3D, Upgrade, Update, property, implementation
Last time we explored Intelligent Publish on Demand method and practice inside Civil 3D with the new Surface Spot Label Style Expressions Set that is now available to Release 8 Jump Kit customers for Civil 3D 2021 and Civil 3D 2020. Yes. Even the basic rewards from Label Style Expression Set AddOns are substantial.
Before we address the…
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Tench Tilghman
Mar 09, 2021
Tags surface, video, Jump Kit, grading, corridor, site design, DWF, iPOD, Style Management, project template, AddOn
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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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
Your organization or firm invests money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software – Autodesk Civil 3D. You (or someone else) works hard to make the Civil 3D software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably. Odds are you have something that works. Can we do better? Can we improve that?
Every Civil 3D expert and most experienced…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 10, 2021
Tags customization, Civil 3D, implementation, Style Management, Project Management, template, project template, sheet template, Reference Template