Lest we forget - One of the most powerful new tools in Civil 3D 2020 is Dynamo for Civil 3D. Autodesk released a new Autodesk Dynamo for Civil 3D 2020 Update 2 right after the new year. The officially supported depth and breadth of the Dynamo scripting support for both raw AutoCAD and Civil 3D is much improved in Update 2.
Cool and important stuff like a…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 09, 2020
Tags Dynamo, Civil 3D 2020, Update, Property Set, script, video, AutoCAD 2020, Dynamo Player
I prefer Gin over Vodka and a good IPA over both. I’m decidedly not James Bond. My car certainly doesn’t cut it. I totally missed the Cash for Clunkers thing. A stated choice of a lethal weapon would probably would not be polticially correct. We’ll avoid that trigger to focus on more important Civil 3D 2020.2 Update matters.
There have been Civil 3D related Updates and enhancements related…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 12, 2019
Tags SHP, XML, Property Set, points, feature line, figure, Enhancements, Civil 3D 2020, Update, utility, Connector, ESRI
One of my long-standing Civil 3D wish list items is a basic form of elementary Audit functionality. I acknowledge that even the concept of some form of audit in Civil 3D is unlikely to reach high into an everyday Civil 3D user’s wish list for obvious reasons. We all get it.
“I already know what’s wrong with my drawing.”
You Manager types…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 25, 2019
Tags WATT, Civil 3D 2020, property, AUDIT, wishlist, Project Management, Style Management
The original Civil 3D development team initially refused allow us all to employ the available and built in Property Set Style definition tools in Civil 3D for many releases. We endured something like ten releases of Civil 3D without it. Arrrgh. A few of us Civil 3D developers asked. What’s the problem?
To build and employ Property Sets Civil 3D users would…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 16, 2019
Tags Property Set, Civil 3D 2020, Dynamo, Style, data, video, BIM, Style Management
We been discussing the Most Important Fact that How you use the Civil 3D interface in the manual manipulation of Parcel Segments matters. There is really a lot to keep track of and these skills obviously apply to more than just Parcels inside of AutoCAD Civil 3D. The key User interface use issues remain clear:
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- Cycle Your Focus
- Selection Create and Edit Skills
- What…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 19, 2013
Tags grips, grip edit, parcel, parcel segment, segment, property, selection