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Yeah. You probably noticed I haven’t yakked much about the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015. That’s a little Abby Normal. However, you might note that Autodesk seems to do the same thing. There is some good stuff in 2015 worth more than this new release blah blah blah.

Yeah. Our Production Solutions for 2014 already run fine in 2015. No biggy.
Upgrade, Open, Save and…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  2015, Civil 3D, survey, survey db, linework, fbk, bugs, Windows 7, Windows 8.1

Autodesk first introduced Survey Queries in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. They improved them some in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 by adding export and import functionality. These days you can employ standardized Survey Queries shared among multiple Survey Dbs.

Me, I’m admittedly a long-time Data Geek. Because I am that I’ve become a CAD, BIM, and…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  query, survey, survey figure, survey point, video

Do we get to the nuts and bolts of a numeric conversion of InstantOn Survey for AutoCAD Civil 3D after a couple asides that focused on some Process Linework nuances? Come on. This is Civil 3D. There is always more to…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  figures, survey, points, query

There’s always just “one more thing” about Figure generation and the Survey Process Linework command to mention. These hidden details that are buried away in the AutoCAD Civil 3D help file are worth studying about and working through into our daily practice.
They enhance our AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey workflows.
Hopefully, you didn’t miss the last post…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  figures, linework, figure db, survey db, codes

Before Christmas I did a quick customization for a Survey customer. He could have done the work himself, but he needed it done now. No problemo. InstantOn Survey (IOS) is an AutoCAD Civil 3D terminator. IOS makes it easy to tweak because it got built that way by Design.

Our surveyor wanted to use a classic numeric coding system you are probably familiar with and that…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Description Key Set, codes, conversion, survey