We’ve been banging away behind the scenes preparing for a site move for number of months. Last night we took the fearful leap to a new web host. Oh Happy Day! Some folks say the best thing about a website host move is that no one notices any changes at all except better website performance.
Welcome to the New Cadpilot.com
Since you’re here today you’ve probably noticed we didn’t…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 08, 2017
Tags website
The post title is a kind quote from a customer who discovered cadpilot.com, the Jump On Civil 3D blog, and the Framework for Civil 3D. Here’s a recent sampling of comments with the names and firms removed to protect their competitive advantage:
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“I find something useful to learn about Civil 3D every time I visit.
Love all…
Posted by Tench Tilghman Mar 30, 2017
In the second week of February 2017 before Valentine’s Day, we made a number of backend security and website engine updates to make both our public and private login portions of the site more secure in preparation for a near-term future conversion of the entire site from the http protocol to the encrypted https (SSL) protocol.
Prepare for the Future
Thankfully, this is all mostly…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 14, 2017
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One of the more interesting aspects of life is that the things we at first do not understand lead us directly to unexpected and new forms of often useful enlightenment. Sadly, this does not happen for everyone all the time. The current bemused ramblings of leftist political pundits comes to mind.
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Changing our perspective takes real work. Understandably that’s something most of us often seem to…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 17, 2016
Tags feature line, priority, site parcel, site design, parcel, corridor, surface, video
Folk complain that AutoCAD Civil 3D is not really user friendly about Site Design. The complaint is true if you insist that site design in Civil 3D should be like it was for years in Land Desktop. Unfortunately, about the only thing Civil 3D has in common with Land Desktop is it’s use of similar but historically deceptive Ribbon names such as Surface, Grading, Parcel, and Alignment.
You…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 10, 2016
Tags grading, site design, corridors, standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, corridor surface, surface