Once upon a time at Autodesk University I delivered a popular CAD Manager track session called People Skills. I think it is safe to say that us techy types often tend to have people and management issues. We tend to want people to behave like software or man-made objects and then they don’t and won’t.
I’m a storyteller. I don’t do standup…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 22, 2019
Tags video, survey point, point group, people skills, learn, point, Style Management, Project Management, heuristics
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
Point Wizardry, Surface Wizardry, and these days - Corridor Wizardry are each important and creative aspects of Civil 3D tradecraft. By Civil 3D tradecraft and craftmanship I mean those mission critical skill sets wrenched and painfully derived from the real project work that allow some Civil 3D users to become super productive…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 13, 2019
Tags point, survey db, Survey Codes, feature line, annotation, Description Key, Description Key Set, Project Management, CAD Standards, point group, video
It’s a pretty good bet that most folk consider Points to be pretty much a survey thing in Civil 3D. It’s even a better bet that these same folks have complaints about Civil 3D’s point display representations, or rather point resolutions. It’s sad but true. Many want and still try and force Civil 3D to behave like Land Desktop, Eagle Point, or some other old school…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 08, 2019
Tags point, survey db, Survey Codes, Survey Query, feature line, annotation, Description Key, Description Key Set, Project Management, CAD Standards
The title for this post sounds almost like a car finish product. Go on down to the box store and pick up some Surface Care today. Civil 3D Surface Care is in the aisle next to that beer sold by dem Artesians. You remember the Artesians? Don’t you? Ok. Maybe not. You should.
The Artesian tv spots were the best of the 80’s beer commercials. You have to wonder…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 26, 2019
Tags surface, DREF, landxml, survey landxml, points, COGO points, survey point, video, project template