The Autodesk Civil 3D Alignment Feature alters, and continues to alter, how civil engineers and survey professionals and their organizations employ Civil 3D in production. Autodesk invests heavily in the technology surrounding the many Alignment-based tools in Civil 3D. The many capabilities and properties of the Alignment make the Alignment the core Feature in…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 15, 2024
Tags alignment, alignment type, naming conventions, Name Template, offset alignment, connected alignment
Our work stays the same and our work changes. This is certainly true for Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. Civil 3D Users mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Those that claim to have conquered this beast in Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 01, 2024
Tags Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, TREF
Autodesk recently released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2023.3.2 Update. The Civil 3D 2023.3.2 Update synchs the Civil 3D 2023 Object Model with the latest 2024.3 Object Model Update. Of course, there are other important Civil 3D 2023 fixes included in the Update.
The latest Framework for Civil 3D 2023.3.2 Product Updates are now available.
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This is a maintenance…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 24, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Update, Upgrade, Jump Kit, Templates Only
If there’s a new Civil 3D Update out there in Civil 3D Land, the odds are that means there’s also a new release build of the Framework for Civil 3D products. It’s true. Over many years since the first Civil 3D beta, we’ve had a lot of practice upgrading our products through the many changes made to Civil 3D. Practice makes perfect.
There’s…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 10, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2024, Update, Upgrade, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Multiple Baseline Corridors
Happy New Year! Let’s proactively start the New Year with a talk about some practical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
I manage and maintain an enormous set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D. Most folks see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D products that are delivered from this site. I had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, Style Library, Update