What the heck is an Alignment-based Point Group? What? You’ve never had to document locations on Plan and Profile sheets? There lots of locations (points) we need to label and or symbolize relative to those Autodesk Civil 3D View Frames slapped down along an Alignment. View-based Point Styles and Point Label Styles can help a lot with the automation of our project…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 15, 2021
Tags alignment, View Frame Group, ViewFrame, plan production tool, DREF, points, Point Style, Point Label Style
Does it help us to explore the end of things to discover a path to a better beginning?
Questions like this are worth consideration in the circular and iterative process world of Autodesk Civil 3D.
In this Book of Alignments series of posts, we talk about the Alignment as a Design Control Manager in Autodesk Civil 3D. There are at least a dozen management…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 06, 2021
Tags alignment, naming conventions, Name Template, View Frame Group, ViewFrame, plan production tool, DREF, group labels
What exactly does an Alignment do in Autodesk Civil 3D? That’s a loaded question. That may be the most mission critical question we can ask about the Alignment in Civil 3D. The familiar word – Alignment – is more sophisticated and nuanced in meaning these days. We certainly need to align our thinking with the Civil 3D functional realities.
If we have employed old-school,…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 03, 2021
Tags design control, alignment, alignment direction, offset alignment, connected alignment, offset profile, profile, pipe network, pressure pipe network, superelevation, plan production tool
Can you hear me laughing? It’s true. The publication of Plan Set Deliverables in Autodesk Civil 3D probably has more nuances than Lady Gaga has dresses. Some of those details can be quite elaborate to say the least. One could probably record hours of How To videos to get all the way through Sheet Set Manager publication and cover the meat of the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 11, 2021
Tags sheet template, sheet set template, DWF, plan production tool, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, iPOD
Autodesk University 2019 is in the books. If Autodesk says true to form the AU 2019 Online courses and video recordings should be available later this month or early next year. We don’t have to wait. Hoorah. I caught up a little bit over the long Thanksgiving weekend by splitting my screen time between some great football (in multiple flavors of the sport) and some…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 03, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, training, points, parcel, surface, grading, alignment, profile, corridor, pipe network, plan production tool, section