One great advantage of Style-based software is the simultaneous increased consistency and flexibility that Style brings to the table. These days given the will and the skill you can make a Civil 3D Style, Civil 3D Label Style, or Civil 3D Label Set do almost anything a user could think of with the Civil 3D data behind.
The downside to this abstraction of a complex set…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 26, 2018
Tags Jump Kit, Style Management, Style Import, video, implementation, customization, training
Someone asked about why we include example projects with Jump Kit. Best I let a customer answer that…
“You suggested on the phone that I root around in the project dataset that you supply with Jump Kit. You pointed me to example drawings on the phone. These days I don’t expect much from examples supplied by software people like Autodesk. Boy, was I wrong.
Every…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 10, 2018
Tags Templates Only, Jump Kit, project, training, Upgrade, video, offset profile, superelevation, Civil 3D 2018
Someone recently complained to me that their current budget didn’t allow for the training of new employees and staff training for latest AutoCAD Civil 3D release upgrades. Trust me, even if you do have the budget, it is never enough. Skilled, professional Civil 3D folk are hard to find. All the trends say that this human resource problem will only get worse. When skilled people…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 29, 2018
Tags training, Civil 3D, management, people skills, Layer Standards, spreadsheet, CAD Standards, AddOn, Update
I hope you take a minute or two to check out our latest Civil 3D Training and Civil 3D Help additions below. There’s much to gain from a click or two. You will discover we added a diverse collection of new Civil 3D Training Videos from a growing group of Civil 3D experts. Thanks to all!
For our current and future Framework for Civil 3D customers…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 01, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, website, training, help, Civil 3D 2017, implementation, CAD Standards
You could argue that all of the consideration of workflows in Civil 3D is merely a result of the considerable depth of function built into the software. Civil 3D does have a virtual feast of inherent capability for civil engineers and surveyors.
You could also argue that this attention is unwarranted. The emphasis is only necessary because of the strange mix of old and new interface design…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 16, 2018
Tags training, bucket, implementation, Civil 3D, data, project