It’s a new month, a change of season, and for some the apparent loss of reason. Time to transform from the Bake to the Freeze in my part of Civil 3D Land.
Sir? Bake and Freeze? Aren’t those drinking games?
Nah. It’s just my calendar reciting the same old cyclical tale. There’s proof in the lunar or lunatic details or lack thereof.Some do howl at the moon because Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 09, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, DOD, spreadsheet, customization, Release 8, Survey Codes, figure prefix db, Description Key Set
We all know about bad assumptions. You believe something is totally obvious. You proceed to talk about a subject that way. People in the crowd nod their heads in affirmation. Meanwhile that same audience is actually completely baffled. This is a pretty common symptom of ED - Expert’s Disease. Oops, that didn’t come out exactly as I intended. You do get what I mean.
I had…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 02, 2018
Tags Survey Codes, survey, figure prefix db, Description Key Set, survey db, point, survey point, video
There is no doubt that the increased complexity of Civil 3D Point Display Resolution has been a good news and bad news problem since the initial release. In a tongue and cheek fashion I like to tell people that Autodesk lied to us from the get go. They named things in the Civil 3D Ribbons to make us believe the objects we are dealing with are something like the old school CAD objects…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 30, 2018
Tags point, point display, point group, Description Key Set, customization, Point Style, Point Label Style
Our civil engineering customers say that Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome design solution for Civil 3D. You get production Civil 3D templates that work. These include one of the largest and most robust Civil 3D Styles libraries on the planet bar none.
Our survey customers say that the Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome survey solution for…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 01, 2018
Tags codes, survey point, survey figure, survey db, Description Key, Description Key Set, point group, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
AutoCAD Civil 3D can be the software surveyors love to hate. Maybe that should read hate to love? Unquestionably, Autodesk immediately messed with the established survey CAD workflows. In truth, they even messed with the core essential meanings of many familiar things like Point, Figure, and Alignment.
Historically, Autodesk also probably took way too long to sort out the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 27, 2018
Tags survey, survey db, point group, Description Key Set, survey figure, implementation, surface, points, Point Style, Point Label Style, video