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Drive Civil 3D Corridor Quality Checks

Autodesk Civil 3D is loaded with useful and powerful tools to help us create, edit, and manage Complex Corridors. Whether the Corridor design addresses a roadway or a site grading design condition, Design Visualization becomes a significant Civil 3D user issue for any Multiple Baseline Corridor (MBC).

Complex Corridors include a host of…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Multiple Baseline Corridors, Drive, corridor surface, surface, Code Set Styles, Surface Style, feature line, survey figure, video

Multiple Civil 3D Description Key Sets

Civil engineers and surveyors who employ Autodesk civil software know a thing or two about Description Key Sets. Everyone’s an expert to one level or another by necessity. The DescKey concept and technology has been around a long time back to the old Land Desktop (LTD) days.

Why bother to talk about this topic at all?
“Honey, can we change the channel?”

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Description Key Set, Description Key, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, NCS, AIA, survey point, survey figure, survey db, video, points

Surface Data References and Civil 3D

We’ve discussed the topic of Data References (DREF) in Autodesk Civil 3D and the important Object Model challenges we simply have to deal with in our Civil 3D projects. This DREF chatter spawns a bunch of questions about Civil 3D Surfaces, Surface DREFs, and how to make them work better and faster. The existing and design surface discussion takes a few words and…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  surface, Surface Style, DREF, data shortcuts, data reference, survey db, survey figure, landxml, video, QAQC, surface edit, XML

Better Codes Points and Figures in Civil 3D

Our civil engineering customers say that Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome design solution for Civil 3D. You get production Civil 3D templates that work. These include one of the largest and most robust Civil 3D Styles libraries on the planet bar none.

Our survey customers say that the Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome survey solution for…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  codes, survey point, survey figure, survey db, Description Key, Description Key Set, point group, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018

Civil 3D Survey Project Prototypes

AutoCAD Civil 3D can be the software surveyors love to hate. Maybe that should read hate to love? Unquestionably, Autodesk immediately messed with the established survey CAD workflows. In truth, they even messed with the core essential meanings of many familiar things like Point, Figure, and Alignment.

Historically, Autodesk also probably took way too long to sort out the…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  survey, survey db, point group, Description Key Set, survey figure, implementation, surface, points, Point Style, Point Label Style, video