Folk complain that Civil 3D is not really user-friendly for Site Design. This is bunk. The complaint is true only if you insist that site design in Civil 3D should be like it was for years in old school CAD software. We insist our AutoCAD skills are more important than new Civil 3D skills and capabilities. About the only thing Civil 3D has in common with that old software is Civil 3D’s use of similar…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 29, 2018
Tags standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, site design, site parcel, corridors, intersection, parcel, CAD Standards, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
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