It is no great secret that the Autodesk Civil 3D dev team is no longer making Civil 3D Object Model changes primarily in the new numbered year Releases. Say what? Maybe, you missed that? You can’t blame them. They apparently have enough other things to deal with in those new releases each year. We all get that. Civil 3D sits atop both Map 3D Toolset and the core AutoCAD engine.
Frankly,…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 10, 2019
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Update, Upgrade, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Batch Save, customization
The Framework for Civil 3D supplies an amazingly detailed and complete set of adaptive and yet fully integrated Survey Codes, Description Key Sets, Points and Figures resolution tools to generate for Civil 3D users and organizations a more productive and much less painful Civil 3D point experience.
Many civil engineering design side people are astonished by the safe bet…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 20, 2019
Tags alignment, point group, point, Point Label Style, iPOD, Civil 3D, not keys, fig, figure, customization, video
The Framework for Civil 3D is a standard to build your standards from. The Framework is all about the Adaptive Systems Management of Civil 3D. Why is adaptive systems management important? Lacking a systems approach to CAD Standards in Civil 3D, we are confined to standards ruled only by the immediacy of preference.
Don’t get me wrong. Preference and choice…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 18, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, linetype, spreadsheet, customization, implementation, Civil 3D 2020, video, change management
Days before the 4th of July holiday weekend, a non-customer emailed me to ask whether it was ok for him to employ the resources structure employed in the Framework for Civil 3D for his internal company standards for Civil 3D.
“Be my guest.
My only request is that if you find an improvement drop me another email that explains it.”We document all…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 09, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, customization, Project Management, productivity, video
Each time Autodesk releases a new release or Update of Civil 3D some smart folks decide to give the Framework for Civil 3D a whirl. I can’t say I blame them. When people update the software, they tend to want to improve things about their civil engineering and survey production environment. For good, practical reasons, almost no one initially wants to change everything all at once.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 25, 2019
Tags linetype, Layer Standards, layer state, customization, implementation, project, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8