Any exhaustive discussion about the big topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the hopefully, familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D’s Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the essential and functional…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2024
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types
Autodesk released the usual collection of Extensions and Utilities for Autodesk Civil 3D 2023 this week. The Civil 3D Extensions and Toolbox Utilities do tend to make the week prior to Memorial Day weekend interesting. These important tools are something we must wait for each year here in Civil 3D Land.
Of course, the most significant addition…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 26, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, SHP, coordinate system, Revit, Layer Standards, geotechnical, survey, points, WATT
Autodesk Civil 3D is a feature rich production environment for surveyors and civil engineers. We all discover that Civil 3D requires customization to be usable in real world projects. The cost of this Civil 3D Template, Civil 3D Style, and other mission-critical resource development may quickly become greater than the cost of the software itself.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 15, 2022
Tags point, figure, Survey Query, figure prefix db, Description Key Set, iPOD, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, video, Jump Kit
One of the hallmarks of the Framework for Civil 3D is our on-going dedication to make Civil 3D easier to use and simultaneously make Civil 3D simpler to customize. This is no small task. The Framework for Civil 3D is available for multiple releases of Civil 3D and in multiple NCS Standards flavors as well.
Obviously, our hallmarks are not those tallowed Congressional earmarks…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 30, 2021
Tags AddOn, Point Label Style, Expression Set, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, expressions
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