In early October Autodesk officially released a new Subscription benefit for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and 2016 IDS products named the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Transportation Extension. Meant to be coupled with the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Productivity Pack 1 released in early August you’ll get a rasher of new a useful tools added to the Civil 3D Toolbox. No interface changes…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 16, 2015
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2016, IDS, reports, tools, plan production tool
What the heck is an Alignment based Point Group? What? You’ve never had to produce Plan and Profile sheets? Aren’t there lots of points you have to label and or symbolize relative to those View Frames slapped down along an Alignment? Sure View based Styles and Label Styles help a lot.
The Long and Winding Road
You know that’s not enough. You’ve all face this…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 05, 2015
Tags point group, Point Label Style, annotation, View Frame, ViewFrame, alignment, publish on demand, reports
The best thing about the model-based nature of AutoCAD Civil 3D is that its Features contain real civil engineering DATA. Civil 3D provides visual access to most of this Feature DATA via a host of tools called Styles and Sets. Collecting, standardizing and managing those tools what the Jump is all about.
CAD Visuals are Not the Whole Game
The published Sheet is far from the totality…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 30, 2011
Tags data, reports, publiish, publish on demand, Style