Most civil engineering and survey firms employ a simple form of codes in the Format column of their Description Keys. There’s no problem with that, but you may be missing some very useful functionality built into AutoCAD Civil 3D’s Description Keys Sets and annotative Label Style power tools.
Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the simply…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes, survey db, video
At present we all probably have Parcels on our mind to one degree or another. It is Christmas time after all. I admit that you’re probably not considering the Civil 3D kind of Parcels favored in subdivision work. Those may make you grimace. Mind you. I’m no Grinch.
My point is that there are many ways in AutoCAD Civil 3D to deliver the Parcel goods whether you be a design civil engineering…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 14, 2017
Tags parcel, parcel segment, alignment, offset alignment, landxml, Label Style, video, ESRI, SHP
Go ahead and say it out loud. There be lots of sizzle, hiss, and snake-like sound in that post title. Stomp about a bit in rattlesnake land. Do the same old things. You may miss the magic. Trust me. When you look down at your boot and there’s a mad, hissing snake wrapped around it and his fangs are buried in the boot leather you’re mighty glad you changed your Nikes. Time to change that nappy?
Once…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 07, 2017
Tags Survey, survey db, points, point display, surface, query, video, AddOn, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2018
There’s a burning question that concerns anyone about the latest and greatest Rehab Tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.1. It's about time I deliver an answer or two.
“Can the new Civil 3D 2018.1 Rehab tools be employed to create Complex Corridors to perform classic intersection rehab and reconstruction projects?”
To Build a Rehab Intersection
In…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2017
Tags rehab, Civil 3D 2018, Update, corridors, alignment, design, video, survey, figure, surface, cross section control, connected alignment
Sooner rather than later we’ll finally get around to the use of the new Rehab Corridor Tools to do Intersection reconstruction and other similar dicey roadway rehab and reconstruction tasks in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.1.
We released a new Subassembly AddOn for Civil 3D 2018.1 with more than few helpful Style tool adjustments. Yes. There are…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 30, 2017
Tags rehab, Civil 3D 2018, Update, corridors, alignment, design, video, survey, figure, surface, cross section control