Most of the people we talk to everyday are advanced Civil 3D users, CAD Managers, and organization Project Managers and Principals who try to get work out the door and keep the wheels on the bus. Many of these folks are literally rebuilding the Civil 3D Magic Bus while it rolls down the road.
That is truly an act of daring do. That is also something we all must do.
Around…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 29, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, feature line, alignment, surface, DREF, XREF, IREF, parcel, Project Management, benchmark, heuristic
The daily production mechanics of Autodesk Civil 3D’s interconnected and project-based Dynamic Model are indeed very powerful. These sometimes-convoluted mechanics can be downright overwhelming as well. We aren’t always so clear what that means at the very practical and daily work level.
We are all confronted with a daunting certainty in Civil 3D. The simple…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2024
Tags surface, alignment, parcel, dynamic model, bucket, training, DREF, Project Management
Autodesk released the latest Civil 3D 2020.5.2 Update for Autodesk Civil 3D 2020 earlier this week. The latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5.2 Update addresses remaining problematic issues with Feature Lines that are used as Corridor Baselines in the earlier Civil 3D 2020.5 and Civil 3D 2020.5.1 Updates.
The Civil 3D 2020.5.2 Update…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 15, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, corridors, feature line, site parcel, site, Upgrade, baseline
There are uncomfortable and unexpected truths squirrelled away in the simplest annotative tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. Model-based software means some basic tasks are fundamentally different and more complex for seemingly no apparent reason. There is a reason as we shall see.
Indeed, some planned and managed complexity can provide us with more bang for the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 10, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, publish on demand, iPOD, site parcel, site
Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Let’s call this the lust for One and Done. For surveyors this may mean Point data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files and COGO points to better manage your…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 05, 2020
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, widening, publish on demand, iPOD