Our daily production work in Autodesk Civil 3D is all about what changes today in our current Civil 3D project. Let me put it this way…
“Civil 3D is all about the Project, Baby.”We work in individual Civil 3D working drawings all the time. It is way too easy to lose sight of the shared-data, project-based perspective that is mission critical to our…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 22, 2021
Tags Project Management, Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, project template, Project Explorer, project
Out here in Civil 3D Land, some folks upgrade on odd releases and some folks upgrade on even releases. There are mythical and magical reasons for these approaches. There are reasonable and somewhat logical business reasons not to employ the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D. There are sometimes reasons to wait for an Autodesk Civil 3D Update 1.
The odd or even is superstition…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 08, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Upgrade, Update, Release 8, Jump Kit, change management, CAD Standards, TOC
Here is something serious to consider or maybe that is something to consider seriously? Here’s an intriguing notion about Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and other Civil 3D resources development concerns what we might want to call The Is It Worth it in Civil 3D Paradox.
One side of the Civil 3D development coin says…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 25, 2021
Tags customization, Civil 3D, Style Management, Jump Kit, CAD Standards, change management
The maintenance, upkeep, and Updates of our on-going Civil 3D Projects are a big deal for most of us in Civil 3D Land. Some persons handle that entire structure and process personally. Other groups plan to do it corporately. A few manage to Collaborate Pro. Most of the time, we all simply row and bail like mad to…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 17, 2021
Tags XREF, DREF, TREF, IREF, XML, Project Management, BIM Collaborate Pro, project template, Reference Template
Any exhaustive discussion about the large topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the Civil 3D functional and workflow…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 15, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types