July always reminds me of first steps, moonwalks, and moonlight minds. This makes spatial sense. This month we appear to be on sort of an Export points from AutoCAD Civil 3D bender.
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In each Export post I keep meaning to put in the following moonstep but always seem to simply run out of room. So with a savage terrier dog draped across my toes in a state of fan-cooled repose,…
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 28, 2016
Tags Point Label Style, Description Key Set, Description Key, export, publish on demand
Editable Digital Deliverable production for other CAD apps from AutoCAD Civil 3D is less of a pain today than in the past. However, it’s sad to say that all is not as it should be in Civil 3D Land. I suppose whether you believe the current behavior of the menu pick Export command (EXPORTC3DDRAWING) is buggy or a benefit depends on how you do things and what you are dealing with.…
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 19, 2016
Tags export, COGO points, Point Style, survey point, DGN, surface
There is always some fear and loathing for writers associated with a post about newly introduced feature in the latest AutoCAD Civil 3D. New product features do tend to arrive as a work in progress. Autodesk often introduces something new with little real documentation. This allows them to change the officially undocumented behavior of the new feature in the next Service Pack. Yep. There’s a reason…
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 30, 2016
Tags Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017, Style, Style Management
Let’s face it when we think AutoCAD Civil 3D civil engineers and survey people don’t think art. Yet to get the software to produce what you want is a form of art and craftsmanship, don’ ja know.
I saw this documentary about one of the world’s best guitar builders the other day on one of those educational channels. The man’s technically a luthier. He mentors and trains other luthiers for…
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 28, 2016
Tags color, utility, thematic style, infrastructure, Civil 3D, Style
Someone recently asked me to describe our new Release 7 Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D.
In a word Release 7 is…Pivotal
The new Release 7 of the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D is all about…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 09, 2016
Tags Release 7, Civil 3D 2017, Style, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015