You know the drill. You get a job in a civil engineering and survey firm that hires you because you know AutoCAD Civil 3D. Heck. You passed the official Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D certification exam. In your hire day interview the firm owners even promise to upgrade to the latest release before you start.
That’s great. Opportunity knocks. Congrats.The Plans of Mice and Men
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 05, 2016
Tags CAD Standards, Style Management, Style, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, template, Name Template
Is this easy to say, and hard to do? Of course it is. All work worth doing usually is.
That’s why they call the results Competitive Advantage. Competitive advantage is something you make. The Lord knows, it’s easy enough to lose and never, ever get in the first place.They tell us this technology can help. We know technology can hurt. Oh yeah. Software we depend on…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 01, 2015
Tags WATT, CAD Standards, Style Management
We have this thing we call CAD Standards to improve our ability to communicate complex ideas and information to others consistently. When we talk "Standards" this means we are talking about forms of human language and interpretation. This is truly deep stuff. I won't go there. This is this practical post.
Seek and Find the Known Good
We need to take the time to assess if our current…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jan 21, 2015
The Civil 3D Managed Dynamic Model means that if you plan ahead carefully you can set a lot of the Data Reference connections up in advance using simple "place holder" Features and then replace the connections later with more detailed or "complete" ones later.
It Pays To Be Prepared
In other words, you can use simple Feature stuff to do the Dynamic Model building up front and then…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 13, 2015
Tags project, Project Management, uds, NCS, alignment, collector
A Managed Dynamic Model depends on systematic and managed and use of AutoCAD Civil 3D Feature centric Data References (DREFs). Technically, AutoCAD Civil 3D does not require a project connection to function. Instead is supports a more flexible and practical mechanism – association. Therefore, Civil 3D is actually more dependent on project structure, organization,…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jan 06, 2015