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
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
Do we ask the right questions about Civil 3D and how we use it?
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By definition…Probably not. We human beings tend to not ask questions about what we believe we already know how to do. We rely too much on habit. We could call this the human autopilot. The autopilot works 95%+ of the time. Our brains spend a good deal of invisible time behind the scenes working on those building those structures…
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Tench Tilghman
May 18, 2021
Tags customization, implementation, alignment, points, surface, corridor, grading, Jump Kit, Templates Only, project template, Style Management
The latest and greatest Framework for Civil 3D 2022 products are on the street. Whew. Updates to the the Framework’s backend documentation and website support plays an important part in customer success with the products. We do try to pay attention to the details. I had the pleasure of rewriting the Framework Install instruction PDF to synch those written instructions with the supplied…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 06, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, data shortcut, windows 10, install, shortcuts, video, project template