Alignments in Autodesk Civil 3D have Types. Hoorah. If we get the Alignment Type wrong when we create the Alignment, No Biggie, 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 can only be built on creation. Some relationships or properties…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 22, 2024
Tags alignment, alignment type, Alignment Style, intersection, connected alignment, Project Explorer, offset aligment, offset profile
Out here in Civil 3D Land we do civil engineering and survey work. That means that grading and Civil 3D Surfaces play a significant part of our daily workflows. Thankfully, Autodesk has been working hard on improved Civil 3D performance. How we structure our Civil 3D Projects and how we perform some basic Civil 3D Project maintenance work can matter.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 08, 2024
Tags surface, corridor surface, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, performance, Project Management, TIN, Civil 3D
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
We all occasionally hear the refrain or claim: “Our projects in Civil 3D are too small to make Data References (DREFs) and Data Shortcuts worth the effort. We manage to get most of our work done in one drawing.”
We can work this way in Autodesk Civil 3D.
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Folks do successfully work without DREFs every day in Civil 3D Land.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 06, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Data Shortcut Manager, Project Management, project template
Autodesk continues the annual Get Ready for Autodesk University barrage of important product updates. For reasons that may, or may not, be obvious to all the folks in Civil 3D Land the updates remain focused on the Autodesk Cloud products. This week’s Autodesk Cloud goody is the latest and greatest Autodesk Desktop Connector 16.5.0.2083 (ADC).
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 04, 2023
Tags Desktop Connector, Project Management, Reference Explorer, Civil 3D, BIM Collaborate Pro