Your organization or firm invests money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software – Autodesk Civil 3D. You (or someone else) works hard to make the Civil 3D software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably. Odds are you have something that works. Can we do better? Can we improve that?
Every Civil 3D expert and most experienced…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 10, 2021
Tags customization, Civil 3D, implementation, Style Management, Project Management, template, project template, sheet template, Reference Template
If we move around the tiny little verb in the title of this post, we can change a lot about that title and our perception. We can swiftly change the implied question into a statement - What the Framework for Civil 3D is. In Yoda speak we might say - The Framework for Civil 3D what is. One of my personal favorites.
Funny thing. This silly grammar play seems…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 27, 2021
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, contour, video, customization, implementation
No serious, in-depth discussion about Civil 3D Label Styles can dodge the serious matter of Expressions in Label Styles. In the Framework for Civil 3D products, we intentionally try and keep the risk of Label Style Expression use in the Framework’s Core Style library to a minimum. This has to do with practical Civil 3D Style maintenance problems…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 17, 2020
Tags Label Style, Label Set, expressions, Expression Set, Jump Kit, AddOn, customization, template, Reference Template
We continue to chisel away at the nuances of Civil 3D Label Style method and practice - The art of annotation in Autodesk Civil 3D matters to us all. Some of that pound and grind is similar to the removal of the sculptural whitepace from the original blocks of marble that became Michelangelo’s David or Madonna and Child. Do we need Label Style structural…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 01, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, annotation, annotative scale, iPOD, customization, implementation, Style Import
Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5.1 Update yesterday. That was just in time for the first day of Autodesk University 2020. Whew. The latest Civil 3D 2020.5.1 updates all previous releases and Updates of Civil 3D 2020. That includes the previously released and then recalled Civil 3D 2020.5 Update released in late September.
Autodesk…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 17, 2020
Tags AU 2020, training, implementation, customization, Project Management, CAD Standards, Civil 3D, Project Explorer, Infraworks