The mastery of Points is nothing to take lightly in Autodesk Civil 3D. Like that old saying, “It’s all about location, location, location, Baby.” Points are foundational in the civil engineering and survey professional disciplines. Then your favorite software vendor’s programmers take over.
Points are one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D speak.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 31, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Update, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, customization, video, WATT, spreadsheet
We can make the annotation of Complex Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D faster, better, and more consistent. A Complex Corridor is one of those Multiple Baseline beasties (or beauties) that can model our design solutions more effectively.
Autodesk invests seriously on improving the Civil 3D Corridor engine’s capabilities. Today, Civil 3D users to can grade…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 18, 2020
Tags corridor, annotation, group labels, Label Style, feature line, View Features, Survey Codes, survey db, spreadsheet, video
If you tool around the cadpilot site, you will discover lots and lots of in-depth Civil 3D content, videos, and help. All the video content produced by other experts on the site is curated. I personally watch and seriously consider the viability of the video content you find here.
If it makes sense, I’ll often add constructive comments on the video in the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 13, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, training, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, implementation, customization, spreadsheet
We released the latest and greatest version of the Framework for Civil 3D Codes Spreadsheet Tool this week. The Codes Tool is intentionally both Civil 3D and Framework release agnostic. We are talking about managing the Codes we employ to gather and annotate locations in Civil 3D. The language that we employ to talk about locations (the Codes) doesn’t care about…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 11, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Release 8, Civil 3D 2020, codes, Survey Codes, figures, figure prefix db, spreadsheet, Layer Standards
The Framework for Civil 3D includes a powerful Survey Codes Spreadsheet Tool. The tool is a favorite of many Framework customers. The Codes Tool is employed to externally manage and maintain both Survey and Design Codes that may be employed in Descriptions Keys, Description Key Sets, Figure Prefix Db, Survey Queries, Point Group definitions, and even Civil 3D Corridor…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 06, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Civil 3D, spreadsheet, AddOn, Release 8, Release 7, Survey Codes, points, figures, figure prefix db, customization, NCS, NCS 6.0