Over the summer we discussed the hot topic of Site Grading with Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D in a series of posts. Most in-depth posts include instructive and detailed instructional videos to allow folks the Civil 3D Land see and learn how to make the jump from Feature Lines Only grading design workflows and processes to productive Civil 3D Corridor engine method…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 22, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Project Explorer, feature line, corridor, surface, video, Upgrade, Update, Release 8
The phrase Painless Civil 3D Upgrades does sound like a contradiction of terms. These words don’t seem to go together - sort of like Intelligent Political Speech. Eheh.
Some recent Civil 3D Update performance art is fresh on my mind. The latest versions of the Framework for Civil 3D 2021.1 Update products hit the street earlier this week.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 17, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Update, Upgrade, Release 8, Jump Kit, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Batch Save
Autodesk purchased the ProjectExplorer for Civil 3D product back in mid-April. I said at that time this would/could be one of the best things Autodesk has done for Civil 3D in quite a while. The product went up somewhere into orbit and it just splashed down.
The new Autodesk Project Explorer for Civil 3D extension hit the street for AEC Collection…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 20, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Project Explorer, PE, Corridors, Assembly, Subassembly, alignment, feature line, point group, sample lines, profile, video
People often ask what makes the Framework for Civil 3D special and different. Everyone wants an answer that speaks to their current need. Everything depends on the state of their Civil 3D usage both personal and corporate. Yes, there are indeed corporate Civil 3D skills.
If you are a Civil 3D newbie or are starting a new civil engineering practice, you must…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 14, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, customization, CAD Standards, Style Management, change management
Civil 3D 2020 and the new Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 set forth on a much-publicized march to better forms of Design Collaboration for Civil 3D in the Cloud. Design Collaboration for Civil 3D sounds good. It Is supposed to sound good. By in large, it is good. Yet, this positive Cloud Collaboration effort makes us a little itchy in the back of our hindbrains.
A new more often…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 07, 2020
Tags BIM 360, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2021, Project Management, project template, Upgrade, Update, implementation