Lots of us in Civil 3D Land love to whine about Site Grading in Autodesk Civil 3D. Many of us still employ the classic design by breaklines methodologies from our CAD historical past to produce our production grading designs in Civil 3D. It works. These days most of us might agree that Civil 3D Feature Lines are an improvement over AutoCAD 3D polylines.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 08, 2023
Tags grading, site design, feature line, Multiple Baseline Corridors, corridor, corridor surface, video
Most of us who employ Autodesk Civil 3D in production environments are familiar with the mechanics to replace External References (XREF) in our working and/or publication drawings. The Survey dept updates the existing annotation for the proposed project’s Parcel map. Survey may overwrite the previously shared XREF drawing. They may provide a separate and differently…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 15, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Behind, data reference, data shortcut, video, DWF, iPOD
People ask - What is the Jump Kit product? Jump Kit for Autodesk Civil 3D is the product name we employ to market our vast collections of Framework for Civil 3D tools and technologies. There are multiple flavors of Jump Kit products that we maintain for multiple releases of Autodesk Civil 3D.
We say, "Jump…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 08, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Jump Kit, template, project template, sheet set template, sheet template, spreadsheet, video
The Framework for Civil 3D features many powerful and useful Civil 3D Template, Civil 3D Style, and Civil 3D Label Style tools. The Framework happily supports multiple releases of Autodesk Civil 3D. Who knew? The Civil 3D release that floats your boat matters to you. It doesn’t really matter to us and the Framework.
One…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 25, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Multiple Baseline Corridors, Multiple Dynamic Baselines, Label Style, feature line, video
The art of production and publication Civil 3D Standards is all about the construction and maintenance of managed, known, and current States. There is no singularity in Civil 3D Standards although such standards can feel like a time-sucking, black hole. After all, we are talking about sets of collections of variable properties.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 18, 2023
Tags layers, layer state, Layer Manager, CAD Standards, implementation, customization, video, Layer State Manager