Any exhaustive discussion about the large topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the Civil 3D functional and workflow…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 15, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types
We all work today in one Release of Civil 3D or another. Folks these days appear to wait until Autodesk releases the Civil 3D Update 1 of any particular Release to move on. Only then do they begin to deploy and employ the latest and greatest of Autodesk Civil 3D. Makes sense to me.
Lots of other folks continue choose to remain one or more releases back from the current “bleeding” edge release.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 08, 2021
Tags Upgrade, Update, Batch Save, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, Data Shortcut Editor, template, TREF, Project Management
Alignments in Autodesk Civil 3D have Types. Whoopie. No Biggie. If we get the Type wrong when we create the Alignment, we can change the Type? Errr. Well sort of and it depends. This is Civil 3D. Some Civil 3D Feature Properties and Parent and Child relationship properties only can be built on creation. Some may be destroyed by a manual change of Alignment Type.
Recall…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 01, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, Alignment Style, intersection, connected alignment, Project Explorer
I enjoy finding examples and folks who creatively learn to employ the Power of Not to production work in Autodesk Civil 3D. Huh? What the hay does the Power of Not mean? I trust that you do understand the difference between the Boolean logic of AND and OR in expressions. Eheh.
NOT is the third chord (the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 25, 2021
Tags Data Shortcut Manager, Data Behind, not keys, Project Management, points, Point Label Style, site design, corridors, grading
Here is an important fact that may surprise you: Most of our civil engineering and survey customers already had their own set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Styles when they purchased the Framework for Autodesk Civil 3D. These folks recognize the simple fact that reinventing and maintaining the Civil 3D torture wheel is a significant waste of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 20, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, template, Reference Template, project template, Style Management