There is always some fear and loathing for writers associated with a post about newly introduced feature in the latest AutoCAD Civil 3D. New product features do tend to arrive as a work in progress. Autodesk often introduces something new with little real documentation. This allows them to change the officially undocumented behavior of the new feature in the next Service Pack. Yep. There’s a reason…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 30, 2016
Tags Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017, Style, Style Management
The malady is a silent killer of AutoCAD Civil 3D user productivity everywhere. It ignores class, size, and significance. It cares not a whit about reputation, our level of expertise, or our years of professional experience. It’s invisible and pernicious like malnutrition. We must acknowledge that Style Starvation is crisis of what’s not there. A new form of technical scurvy, Style…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 24, 2016
Tags Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, Release 6, Release 7, Style, Style Management
We recently made it official that the Release 6 Framework for Civil 3D upgrades and runs well in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I know Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D Styles that actually work and upgrade real world in production environments are shocking but true. Back at the shack, we are banging away at a more powerful, more useful, and more productive Release 7. We’re getting…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 17, 2016
Tags Style, Style Management, Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017, video
What did Autodesk do in the latest Civil 3D release? Good stuff? Bad stuff? Useless stuff? What do you think?
Civil 3D users cannot count on the potential reality that Autodesk will change their software into what any Civil 3D user wants. No one really expects that. We all hope they will. Users do not choose what Autodesk decides to build and/or fix either in spite of expensive marketing…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 03, 2016
Tags implementation, Release 6, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, management, Jump Kit
Someone asked me this week what I think about the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I quickly replied,
“It’s about time…
Your time. My time. Every Civil 3D user’s time.”Time will also tell whether the many new and powerful forms of reference poured out in Civil 3D 2017 stay stable in complex production level projects. They must to be successful. I expect with proper…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 21, 2016
Tags Style Management, Style, Style Import, Civil 3D 2017, template