We introduced in the latest Release 8 versions of the Framework for Civil 3D for Civil 3D 2019 and Civil 3D 2018, a much improved and innovative form of Civil 3D Style library collection. We call these Civil 3D Style library collected resources - Adaptive Template Building Blocks. It’s a new thing in Civil 3D Land.
People have asked, “What…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 23, 2019
Tags Style Management, Style, alignment, profile, section, feature line, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
Your organization or firm invested money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software – Civil 3D. You (or someone else) will have work hard to make the Autodesk Civil 3D software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably.
Every Civil 3D expert and most experienced Civil 3D users will tell you, “You need a Civil 3D template.”
They’re…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 15, 2019
Tags standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, customization, implementation, Style Management, Civil 3D 2019
Autodesk Civil 3D is a feature rich and complex design environment for civil engineers. Civil 3D requires customization to be usable in real world projects. The cost of this development can easily be more than the cost of the software itself. The on-going maintenance and total cost of ownership costs are often worse. Inside the Framework for Civil 3D products we supply…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 27, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Release 8, design, survey, style, CAD Standards, Update
What goes around comes around. For reasons that are a mystery I’ve recently received a bunch of questions about the Export of Civil 3D project stuff in digital deliverable form. In other words, the folks want to publish digital copies of the Civil 3D data behind in their projects without the Civil 3D objects themselves.
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“We want the results only” – whatever that…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 07, 2018
Tags iPOD, font, NCS, ISO, conversion, export, DGN, text, textstyle, special characters
Suppose you want to label flow lines in your roadway plan, ditch center-line elevations, or the top or bottom of a bank. Conceptually, suppose you want to evaluate grades across an existing site to figure out how to terrace the latest parking lot surface beast. The simple answer: Create an Alignment; Apply a Label Set; Grab the labels; Point the Label References built into a Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 14, 2018
Tags alignment, group labels, reference labels, annotation, corridor, surface, Label Style, profile, offset profile