The latest One AutoCAD 2020 release is now on the street. The One AutoCAD includes a host of specialty Toolsets in addition to the improved core AutoCAD functionality. The AutoCAD 2020 improvements include a focus on faster installs, quicker saves, and better integration of common AutoCAD tools, and interface mechanics for all the supported Toolsets.
AutoCAD 2020
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 28, 2019
Tags AutoCAD 2020, Toolset, Map 3D 2020, release, block, purge, install
Customers do often ask about the Symbols supplied with the Framework for Civil 3D. We call this collection of resources and tools a Symbol Set. Just like those familiar Sets in Civil 3D a Framework Symbol Set is a collected and managed system. This practically means that a Symbol Set collection is more than the sum of its parts.
As…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 19, 2018
Tags symbol, Symbol Set, Point Style, spreadsheet, Blocks Only, block, Tool Palettes, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, video
You gotta love new Autodesk tools. They do tend to make the Civil 3D expert in us become a newbie with a click or two. This happens to me. It happens to you. Sometimes it’s actually the deep dark past, and not the new, that provides the proverbial rock we stumble over. Perhaps this short post about my most recent face plant will spare a few folks this sort of embarrassment and the ever-present specter…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 10, 2018
Tags tools, spreadsheet, AutoLISP, Civil 3D 2019, script, scriptcall, CAD Standards, Batch Save
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
May 01, 2018
Tags codes, survey point, survey figure, survey db, Description Key, Description Key Set, point group, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
The highways and byways of America are littered with customized Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D Styles that fail. They won’t cut the mustard on my big-stack pastrami Rueben. Tools that don’t stand and pass the workday muster are like growing up believing that kosher pickles are supposed to be limp and soggy things. Ok, this deli food metaphor is getting out of hand. Nasty.
It’s sad. We don’t…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 26, 2018
Tags Speadsheet Tools, tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, CAD Standards, implementation, customization