One of the common user complaints about Civil 3D is the repetitive way you must crawl around the file system to find and get resources. This is certainly one of my pet peeves. Civil 3D has a lot of potential resources. Back in the day, we called the default install’s resource structure…
Down the Rabbit Hole
The reference to Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 08, 2018
Tags implementation, management, survey, query, video, Civil 3D 2018, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2017
Most years I spend the post-AU month of December at work on planned improvements to the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D. This year is no exception. More about that next time. I trust you recognize that this does not mean that any of us can afford to have…
A Business as Usual Attitude
Far from it. If this last couple of months tells us anything, it screams that the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 02, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Update, Subassembly, Survey, query, deliverables, iPOD
This is the season for giving at the home of the best and most affordable Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D Styles collections for AutoCAD Civil 3D. We release yet another significant and free Release 7 Framework for Civil 3D AddOn this month. You can now get more from your Survey Db data faster, cleaner, and in more forms.
A Civil 3D Gift That Keeps Giving
All Release…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2017
Tags survey db, query, AddOn, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2018, Jump Kit, Templates Only
Go ahead and say it out loud. There be lots of sizzle, hiss, and snake-like sound in that post title. Stomp about a bit in rattlesnake land. Do the same old things. You may miss the magic. Trust me. When you look down at your boot and there’s a mad, hissing snake wrapped around it and his fangs are buried in the boot leather you’re mighty glad you changed your Nikes. Time to change that nappy?
Once…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 07, 2017
Tags Survey, survey db, points, point display, surface, query, video, AddOn, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2018
The AutoCAD Civil 3D resources structure of the Framework for Civil 3D works pretty well both to package up a whole bunch of diverse resources and to get those power-packed resources deployed, available, and implemented for Civil 3D users quickly. People sometimes email me and ask if they can use the structure.
You bet. I do point out that they can get a cheap copy that…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 14, 2017
Tags implementation, management, survey, query, video, Civil 3D 2018, CAD Standards