What exactly does an Alignment do in Autodesk Civil 3D? Whoa. Now that’s a loaded question. It might be the most mission critical question we should ask about the Alignment in Civil 3D. The meaning of that old, familiar word – Alignment – is more sophisticated and nuanced these days. We need to align our thinking with the actual Civil 3D functional realities.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2024
Tags design control, alignment, alignment direction, offset alignment, connected alignment, offset profile, profile, pipe network, pressure pipe network, superelevation, plan production tool
Let’s have a Happy New Year with Civil 3D. Should we wrap up the calendar year 2023 and unwrap a collection of the Top Ten Civil 3D Production Tips? Why not. Everyone loves a top ten list. I used the production word here not the productivity one even though both do apply in this context.
This post has a decided Civil 3D management and implementation bias…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 27, 2023
Tags tips, productivity, implementation, project template, TREF, DWF, DREF, Project Management
There are many things that make all kinds of sense in Autodesk Civil 3D 2023. Maybe you noticed? Some other things – not so much. If we employ the software for a few releases, the familiar AutoCAD and Civil 3D interface mechanics become sensical. These days Autodesk is careful not to change the core daily mechanics too quickly. That tends to make Civil 3D end users unhappy. Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 23, 2022
Tags View Frame Group, View Frame, plan production tool, pages of sections, sheet set template, sheet template, Civil 3D 2023, reference, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, productivity
Late last week Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2023.1 Update. The Civil 3D 2023.1 Update states that the update is primarily focused on enhancements to the integration of Civil 3D, Autodesk Docs, and Collaboration for Civil 3D.
If we want to work or work in Civil 3D in the Autodesk Clouds, the Update 1 for Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 09, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Update, Upgrade, Grading Optimization, plan production tool, sheet set template, video, grading
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