Autodesk University 2019 is in the books. If Autodesk says true to form the AU 2019 Online courses and video recordings should be available later this month or early next year. We don’t have to wait. Hoorah. I caught up a little bit over the long Thanksgiving weekend by splitting my screen time between some great football (in multiple flavors of the sport) and some…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 03, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, training, points, parcel, surface, grading, alignment, profile, corridor, pipe network, plan production tool, section
I prefer Gin over Vodka and a good IPA over both. I’m decidedly not James Bond. My car certainly doesn’t cut it. I totally missed the Cash for Clunkers thing. A stated choice of a lethal weapon would probably would not be polticially correct. We’ll avoid that trigger to focus on more important Civil 3D 2020.2 Update matters.
There have been Civil 3D related Updates and enhancements related…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 12, 2019
Tags SHP, XML, Property Set, points, feature line, figure, Enhancements, Civil 3D 2020, Update, utility, Connector, ESRI
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, QAQC
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