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Visual Surface Quality Assurance

One of the best things about AutoCAD Civil 3D are the visuals that Civil 3D Styles and the backend AutoCAD display engine can produce. If we employ these capabilities to our advantage they are:

More Than Eye Candy

These tools and capabilities can…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Mar 13, 2012

Tags surface, QA, QC, Surface Style, Volume Dashboard, TIN, grading, grading group

ITS 4 AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Goes Live

I want to Play with ITS all day.

What the heck is ITS 4 AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012?

Interactive Terrain Shaping = ITS

Autodesk Labs released a technology preview of new surface modeling tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.

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Posted by Tench Tilghman Feb 08, 2012

Tags 2012, surface, grading, autodesk labs

A Scary New Form of VD 4 C3D 2012

Happy All Hallows Eve! Spooky news for all.

Oct 31, 2011 - Autodesk released the Volumes Dashboard for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 for Autodesk Subscription customers.

The…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Oct 31, 2011

Tags 2012, Civil 3D, Volume Dashboard, grading, surface, TIN

Please Autodesk, Don't Make Civil 3D Dumber & Dumber

I make my living helping real people adopt and make AutoCAD Civil 3D work. Don't get the title of this post wrong. I do think Civil 3D needs to get easier to learn and use. I bitch about that a LOT to Autodesk and try to make many positive and constructive suggestions.
You should bitch too.
Here's the link to the Bitch List...er...Civil 3D Wish List.

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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jun 14, 2011

Tags surface, grading, bugs, label, annotation, XREF, data reference, data shortcut