In Civil 3D Land we all have a love to hate relationship with new product releases. Whether the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 is ready for prime time in your neck of the woods depends on lots of factors. I’m a long-time developer of Civil 3D template and Civil 3D style tool products. My perspective is somewhat different and yet very much the same. Your productivity matters. The implementation of new…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 25, 2017
Tags project, project template, sheet template, customization, plan production tool
We have a bunch of new release AutoCAD Civil 3D customers. What are people waiting for?
It’s about time to rehash the essentials of Sheet Set Template customization. Honestly, nothing significant has changed very much since the release of the AutoCAD 2006 products – a nice tweak here and there.
The same inherent madness and Autodesk built-in weirdness remains. (sigh)
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 02, 2014
Tags sheet set template, sheet template, customization, implementation
People organizations and make AutoCAD Civil 3D implementation too big a deal. It isn’t rocket science. Civil 3D is a software tool. It may be a big, new tool, so a bit of caution is probably in order. The fact of the matter is, we actually already know how to do it. We’re engineers.
The Mission Impossible
“Houston. We have a problem.” Yes. Barring a miracle, the astronauts…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 29, 2013
Tags implementation, AUGI, AUGI World, sheet set template, sheet template, template
"What the heck is a Project Template? Why would I need such a stupid thing? We're doing projects all the time. We know how to manage our drawing files. Who needs that dumb junk."
Happy New Year!
The person who said this to me not long ago over the phone was a bit more irate and caustic than I am willing to put in print.
He works for a about a 40-person engineering…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 04, 2011
Tags ncs, uds, project, project template, sheet set template, sheet template, implementation, Project Management, dynamic model