What the heck is an Alignment-based Point Group? What? You’ve never had to document locations on Plan and Profile sheets? There lots of locations (points) we need to label and or symbolize relative to those Autodesk Civil 3D View Frames slapped down along an Alignment. View-based Point Styles and Point Label Styles can help a lot with the automation of our project…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 15, 2021
Tags alignment, View Frame Group, ViewFrame, plan production tool, DREF, points, Point Style, Point Label Style
Each month I receive a bunch of emails that seek help and support for Civil 3D user issues and problems. For any Civil 3D product maker and Civil 3D expert that work comes with the territory. When you put up the shingle, folks are going to call. Each query deserves a thoughtful response. I am notorious for my WTMI email responses.
The Members section of the CadPilot…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 01, 2021
Tags Civil 3D, implementation, CAD Standards, tools, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, DWF, IREF, View, DVIEW
We continue to explore the powerful relationships between the Civil 3D Alignment and the many mission critical Design Control Manager roles in Civil 3D in this on-going series of posts we name the Book of Alignments.
There are at least a dozen design control management roles for the Alignment in Civil 3D.
A substantial number of…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 13, 2021
Tags alignment, offset alignment, profile, section, Section Editor, Section View, DREF, Jump Kit
Does it help us to explore the end of things to discover a path to a better beginning?
Questions like this are worth consideration in the circular and iterative process world of Autodesk Civil 3D.
In this Book of Alignments series of posts, we talk about the Alignment as a Design Control Manager in Autodesk Civil 3D. There are at least a dozen management…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 06, 2021
Tags alignment, naming conventions, Name Template, View Frame Group, ViewFrame, plan production tool, DREF, group labels
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment, its child Profiles, child Offset Alignments, their slope-controlled Profiles, Curb Return Alignments and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins, and Intersections. Sooner or later, we discover that…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 24, 2021
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization