Lots of people in Civil 3D Land are truly committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. Nothing is wrong with that. The Grading Design by Feature Line Heuristic is well understood and employed by most civil engineering and survey professionals. Civil 3D is loaded with useful practical Ribbon tools to help us get ‘er done.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 20, 2021
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, corridor surface, Project Management, video, DREF
We continue to explore the powerful relationships between the Civil 3D Alignment and the many mission critical Design Control Manager roles in Civil 3D in this on-going series of posts we name the Book of Alignments.
There are at least a dozen design control management roles for the Alignment in Civil 3D.
A substantial number of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 13, 2021
Tags alignment, offset alignment, profile, section, Section Editor, Section View, DREF, Jump Kit
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
I flap my lips, wave my hands about, and rant all the time about the importance of the Proactive System Management of the project-based Civil 3D data behind. Yes. This Civil 3D DREF stuff is important. A customer success story surrounding this Civil 3D model magic makes my day.
One Framework for Civil 3D customer, a Civil 3D CAD Manager for a good-sized…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 20, 2021
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template
The Framework for Civil 3D and its products are a Managed System. We take a manufactured or industrial approach to address the many challenges of Autodesk Civil 3D customization. If you prefer, we are Parts Supplier of integrated Civil 3D resources to build diverse, sustainable, and adaptive Civil 3D Standards from.
How can we better support…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 24, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Project Explorer, Profile View, Description Key