Are Points are one of those “I love to hate them” beasties in AutoCAD Civil 3D? I say it often and loudly that the performance of Civil 3D COGO points sucks. Best to employ them thoughtfully. On the other hand, Civil 3D Survey points can rock your socks off. There are a whole bunch of videos that show that here.
Does it appear in Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 29, 2017
Tags points, survey point, training, CAD Standards, Description Key Set, point group, Point Label Style
If you’re a sports fan, you got to love this last weekend. Both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals finished on back to back nights. These championship events clarify the term performance under pressure. When we talk about applied personal and team skill in those contexts, push comes to shove takes on a whole new meaning. This brings me to the question of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 15, 2017
Tags iPOD, publish on demand, video, training, plotting, pdf, DGN, dwg
Everyone loves to hate training meetings. Maybe it’s that evil, ever-so-banal meeting word.
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If you produce training meetings, you seem to always work too hard to get something compelling and informative put together.
If you attend them, you hope for something new and interesting. As a professional you want to be challenged with real adult education or not.
God forbid, we have…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 13, 2017
Tags training, implementation, management, performance
Autodesk folk say everyone wants an AutoCAD Civil 3D built their way. I believe professional civil engineers and surveyors really want their expensive Autodesk code to work and produce work that is acceptable to them and those that they deliver too. If that’s the goal of your AutoCAD Civil 3D customization, we can work with that.
We build and maintain the most downloaded, most used, and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 18, 2017
Tags implementation, customization, CAD Standards, training, block, symbol, Layer Standards
The post title is a kind quote from a customer who discovered cadpilot.com, the Jump On Civil 3D blog, and the Framework for Civil 3D. Here’s a recent sampling of comments with the names and firms removed to protect their competitive advantage:
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“I find something useful to learn about Civil 3D every time I visit.
Love all…
Posted by Tench Tilghman Mar 30, 2017