The title for this post sounds almost like a car finish product. Go on down to the box store and pick up some Surface Care today. Civil 3D Surface Care is in the aisle next to that beer sold by dem Artesians. You remember the Artesians? Don’t you? Ok. Maybe not. You should.
The Artesian tv spots were the best of the 80’s beer commercials. You have to wonder…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 26, 2019
Tags surface, DREF, landxml, survey landxml, points, COGO points, survey point, video, project template
Smart Civil 3D users in recent releases can assemble together Civil 3D Project Templates, Civil 3D Placeholders, and Civil 3D Reference Templates into a powerful working combination. We don’t want to ignore PTSD – Project Template Structure Defaults.
The intersections of these three technologies produce useful and productive…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 12, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video
What makes me shudder are the rash of upcoming vision metaphors for anything related to 2020. Want to bet Autodesk marketing does it? Can you imagine the 2020 political campaign ads? Want to count the blind leading the blind allegories? If they get us focused on the count, we won’t notice how they play Three Card Monte. Hardly anyone will be able to resist. Eheh.
We are soon to be bombarded…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 07, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Style Management, corridor, feature line, DREF, XREF, Reference Template, project template
The Framework for Civil 3D is designed and built to be a consistent, robust, and adaptive managed system to help organizations and daily Civil 3D users employ Civil 3D in actual production project environments.
The Framework is The Adaptive System to Build Civil 3D Standards.
If you employ Civil 3D, you want a copy of the Framework for Civil 3D.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 05, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, Release 7, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, survey, Adaptive Template Building Blocks, project template, sheet template, spreadsheet
Folks who follow this blog and check out or employ the Framework for Civil 3D, quickly recognize that I am a strong advocate for the employment of Survey tools in their Civil 3D production process. No doubt this can be a significant challenge. There are a lot of moving parts and resources to develop in well-built and effective Survey in Civil 3D processes. These days in Civil 3D…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 26, 2019
Tags template, Survey Codes, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, point group, point display, AddOn, video, CAD Standards, Autodesk University