The Autodesk 2020.1 Updates are now in full swing. The AutoCAD 2020.1 Update was released on the opening day of Autodesk’s 3rd fiscal quarter. We Autodesk end-users sometimes tend to forget that Autodesk is a publicly traded company. The perceptions of shareholders and stock analysts matter. Public Autodesk events happen due to the rules of that game and the vagaries…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 06, 2019
Tags AutoCAD 2020, Update, block, multileader, video, CAD Standards, management, table, tablestyle, project template
Let’s face it. Some Updates to Autodesk Civil 3D are pretty much a no brainer. A new full release of Civil 3D may introduce new unforeseen problems into your project work and workflows. But those incremental Civil 3D Updates often fix important problems in the software.
The recent Civil 3D 2019.3 Update qualifies as one of those important no-brainer Updates.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 23, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Release 7, Release 8, Update, Service Pack, Jump Kit, Templates Only, video, Style Management
The Framework for Civil 3D is a standard to build your standards from. The Framework is all about the Adaptive Systems Management of Civil 3D. Why is adaptive systems management important? Lacking a systems approach to CAD Standards in Civil 3D, we are confined to standards ruled only by the immediacy of preference.
Don’t get me wrong. Preference and choice…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 18, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, linetype, spreadsheet, customization, implementation, Civil 3D 2020, video, change management
The original Civil 3D development team initially refused allow us all to employ the available and built in Property Set Style definition tools in Civil 3D for many releases. We endured something like ten releases of Civil 3D without it. Arrrgh. A few of us Civil 3D developers asked. What’s the problem?
To build and employ Property Sets Civil 3D users would…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 16, 2019
Tags Property Set, Civil 3D 2020, Dynamo, Style, data, video, BIM, Style Management
Everyone needs better and safer places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better Civil 3D sandboxes in our civil engineering and survey organizations. How good is your Civil 3D sandbox?
Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent to learn to employ them. That requires a consistent…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 11, 2019
Tags corridors, Style Library, Style, sandbox, Civil 3D 2020, InstantOn, Jump Kit, video, Project Management