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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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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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
There are all kinds of useful videos, help docs, and even products out there in Civil 3D Land to help us pull-off all the many powerful things with Civil 3D Description Keys and Civil 3D Description Key Sets. I’ve been known to take part in all the blather. People sometimes ask what to do first.
Odds are whatever Description Key Set customization…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 30, 2020
Tags tuple, not keys, BESTWay, points, figures, Survey Codes, Description Key Set, customization, spreadsheet