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Happy New Autodesk Year! Early this month Autodesk released the latest build of Infraworks 360- the Autodesk Cloud-powered, conceptual civil design engine. My words not theirs.
If you employ beefier versions of IDS 2016, and have Autodesk Subscription your tools in Infraworks 360 (IW360) got better, deeper, and more robust. Autodesk says the Q4 Upgrade to Infraworks 360, is…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Infraworks, IW360, Civil 3D 2016, IDS, video

Let’s face it. Most of the time we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s a habit. For surveyors this means data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files to better manage your survey data behind. You Civil 3D design folks heard that too? For civil engineers this often also means linear design stuff that needs to be annotated.

Is…

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I hope you caught the recent planetary news out of Caltech that our solar system may indeed have a new ninth planet. Mike Brown, who led the crusade to change Pluto’s formal classification to a dwarf planet from a planet, and his research partner,…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Description Key Set, point group, point, deliverables, video

At the root of the NCS system is the concept of Standard Keys. These are most often connected to the NCS rules of Standard Layers and the way drawing information is published. The concept and implemented practice of Standards Keys can do a lot more than that. We employ Standard Keys all over the place in the Production…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  standard keys, layers, implementation, customization, video

Great products actually get better and save you more time and effort. They can produce new unexpected, and even more useful results and opportunities. Our AddOn updates to the Production Solution products make a difference.

Our infamous Legends and Lists AddOn for many releases of AutoCAD Civil…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  survey, spreadsheet, customization, implementation, points, AddOn, video