Don’ ya know that the funny thing about all Standards is they do change. Hopefully, the change is an improvement for the better. These changes should mean we can get more work out the door with less effort. Ok. Sometimes it seems that the Loki, the Norse god of trickery, calls the standards shots.
Any incremental standards update always means getting our heads around a new form of daily…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 27, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, ncs 5.0, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, DOD, spreadsheet, customization, Release 8
The management of a Civil 3D customization and the many resources required by the software to function well in a Civil 3D production environment is no small task. When it is time to upgrade to a new release or a significant new Civil 3D Update, it pays to be aware of and to employ the latest available tools. Meet the BS Wingman.
Civil 3D Batch Save Utility
Autodesk released the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 20, 2018
Tags Batch Save, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Upgrade, Update, customization, CAD Standards, management
The deployment and implementation of any new Civil 3D release involves both significant opportunity and risk. No matter what, we all know it can steal our time. We all have a love to hate relationship with new product releases and upgrades.
This time of year firms consider upgrading their production version of Civil 3D for all the usual Civil 3D Update reasons. The first Civil 3D…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 08, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, deployment, implementation, training, customization, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Upgrade
Once you have a well-managed set of Civil 3D Styles and Civil 3D Template resources, there are a host of other production man-hour improvement tools available for you to employ inside Civil 3D. Many folks overlook the very tools that Civil 3D and Windows supply to do that. The time you invest to improve your Civil 3D Project Templates, their structure, and their detailed contents…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 06, 2018
Tags Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project, CAD Standards, data shortcuts, customization
I do videos and blog posts on a lot of topics inside of Civil 3D. Some folks complain that I don’t do basic how tos. Thank God. There are other folks out there in Civil 3D Land that are really good at that. We feature many of those Civil 3D how to videos by the best experts on our curated video pages. Tell me…
Who doesn’t…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 01, 2018
Tags customization, Civil 3D, implementation, template, project template, video, CAD Standards, change management, productivity