Civil 3D Land is awash with help and video resources. Those of us who prognosticate about the software all have our personal inventories of go-to resources. Is cadpilot.com one of yours? At times we experts act like the White House press corps repeating the crud purveyed by those around us without much consideration of our audience or their real world problems. Sorry, I too succumb…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 17, 2017
Tags Survey, Reference Template, legend, list, alignment, export
There is an important fact surprises many people: Most of our civil engineering and survey customers already had their own set of Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D styles when they adopted the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D. These folk recognize the simple fact that reinventing and maintaining the AutoCAD Civil 3D torture wheel is a significant waste of time, energy, and money. They…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 06, 2017
Tags template, project template, sheet template, sheet set template
A few important work-related Civil 3D 2018 concerns to remember post Memorial Day.
AutoCAD Civil 3D is big complex software. Civil engineers and surveyors know Autodesk makes powerful civil software tools. We all quickly discover there are lots of moving pieces and tons of intimate details involved. No matter what we’ve got to get all of that detail straight and working well together into…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 30, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Release 7, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only
In Civil 3D Land we all have a love to hate relationship with new product releases. Whether the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 is ready for prime time in your neck of the woods depends on lots of factors. I’m a long-time developer of Civil 3D template and Civil 3D style tool products. My perspective is somewhat different and yet very much the same. Your productivity matters. The implementation of new…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 25, 2017
Tags project, project template, sheet template, customization, plan production tool
We discussed the term Bucket and the concepts of mini-buckets to make AutoCAD Civil 3D Features a bit easier to understand in the recent Civil 3D Production Buckets post. We discovered that there are What, How, When, and Model buckets to Civil 3D Features. There are important…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 02, 2017
Tags bucket, feature, Name Template, template, Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017