Autodesk first introduced Survey Queries in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. They improved them some in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 by adding export and import functionality. These days you can employ standardized Survey Queries shared among multiple Survey Dbs.
Me, I’m admittedly a long-time Data Geek. Because I am that I’ve become a CAD, BIM, and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 24, 2014
Tags query, survey, survey figure, survey point, video
Videos are all the rage. This site has hours and hours of them on the Civil 3D Video recordings page.
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I do post a few to YouTube now and then. Truthfully, you’re better off coming here where you can both the eye candy and the beef about AutoCAD Civil 3D.
They tell me that I should probably post more on YouTube…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 07, 2014
Tags management, video, Description Key Set, Point Style, Point Label Style
At times we feel setup, but this post is not about a con job. 3-3 merely seemed an appropriate date to talk AutoCAD Civil 3D setup. People say they struggle with the somewhat intricate details that the standard setup. Perhaps you think you’ve got them all licked. Maybe you do and maybe your don’t. I’ve been fooled into this dumb think more than a few times.
“We don’t know what…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Mar 03, 2014
All this talk and words about NCS (National CAD Standard) Layer schemes for production and publishing and the complex relationship to AutoCAD Civil 3D View Features and Styles is enough to give me a headache. That reality makes many of us civil engineering and survey people want to ignore the entire boondoggle and go back to the past. Luckily for us we can…
View the Future
The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 26, 2014
Tags Style Management, Style, video, layers, Layer Standards