The Design State. When we employ Civil 3D Corridors for any type of design the current Design State matters. What is that? A classic example of a current Corridor Design State - Do we want to bother to Daylight now?
When was the last time in a Civil 3D project you only had to employ a single Assembly? A single Assembly that works alone in…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 16, 2021
Tags Corridors, region, Assembly, Subassembly, Civil 3D 2022, Data Shortcut Manager, Set of Assemblies, video, Project Management
Lots of people in Civil 3D Land are truly committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. Nothing is wrong with that. The Grading Design by Feature Line Heuristic is well understood and employed by most civil engineering and survey professionals. Civil 3D is loaded with useful practical Ribbon tools to help us get ‘er done.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 20, 2021
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, corridor surface, Project Management, video, DREF
Our daily production work in Autodesk Civil 3D is all about what changes today in our current Civil 3D project. Let me put it this way…
“Civil 3D is all about the Project, Baby.”We work in individual Civil 3D working drawings all the time. It is way too easy to lose sight of the shared-data, project-based perspective that is mission critical to our…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 22, 2021
Tags Project Management, Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, project template, Project Explorer, project
Out here in Civil 3D Land, some folks upgrade on odd releases and some folks upgrade on even releases. There are mythical and magical reasons for these approaches. There are reasonable and somewhat logical business reasons not to employ the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D. There are sometimes reasons to wait for an Autodesk Civil 3D Update 1.
The odd or even is superstition…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 08, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Upgrade, Update, Release 8, Jump Kit, change management, CAD Standards, TOC
Here is something serious to consider or maybe that is something to consider seriously? Here’s an intriguing notion about Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and other Civil 3D resources development concerns what we might want to call The Is It Worth it in Civil 3D Paradox.
One side of the Civil 3D development coin says…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 25, 2021
Tags customization, Civil 3D, Style Management, Jump Kit, CAD Standards, change management