Earlier this Thanksgiving week in the US, Autodesk quietly released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.2 Update and the latest Object Enabler for the same. There were significant enhancements, performance improvements, and a host of significant fixes included in this latest release of Civil 3D 2025.
Autodesk also simultaneously released a Grading Optimization…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 29, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2025, Grading Optimization, GO, Update, Dynamo, Project Explorer, rail
A barrage of Civil pre Autodesk University 2024 Updates and Hotfixes hit the street late last week. Out here in Civil 3D Land it is easy to lose track of one or more of these in the shuffle. We all have project work to get out the door.
Autodesk released the usual set of Civil Object Model updates and fixes that get the older releases of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 01, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Update, hotfix, Grading Optimization, Project Explorer, Infraworks, object enabler
In Autodesk Civil 3D, we all know that the word template comes up time and time again. Heck. Out here in Civil 3D Land, we even have a Framework for Civil 3D product that we call Templates Only. Lots of customers say that Templates Only gets the essential Civil 3D Standards job done. Hoorah!
We all need many types of Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 27, 2024
Tags Corridor Templates, DREF, grading, Set of Assemblies, corridor, corridor surface, video, Assembly, Subassembly
Lots of folks in Civil 3D Land are fully committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. There’s nothing wrong with that. The Grading Design by Feature Line Heuristic is well understood and employed by most civil engineering and survey professionals. Civil 3D is loaded with useful practical commands and Ribbon tools to help…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 30, 2024
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, Project Management, video, DREF, corridors, Multiple Baseline Corridors
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment; its child Profiles; its child Offset Alignments; their slope-controlled Offset Profiles; Widenings; Intersections; Curb Return Alignments; and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 16, 2024
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization