Autodesk is in the midst of their annual AEC products Update 1 release cycle. I call this Update 1 cycle the Get Ready for Autodesk University Build. This set of Updates means a reduction Civil 3D user flak and whine with the hope for more adoption of the latest numbered release due to Update 1.
There are now other AU world-wide events delivered elsewhere aside from the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 12, 2019
Tags Project Management, Update, Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, project template, template, TREF, Style Management, implementation
Maybe you noticed? There is a big difference between your Civil 3D model building drawings and your Civil 3D publication drawings. Are there are some other types and stages of Civil 3D drawings in between these two? Civil 3D Drawings have states or even phases. If we have phases in projects, then our critical path will probably include drawings that change type…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 10, 2019
Tags iPOD, drawing type, dynamic model, DREF, TREF, IREF, dwf, Project Management, project template, placeholder, template, sheet template, sheet set template
Civil 3D ships with a bunch of templates. Historically in Civil 3D, our attention immediately gets drawn to Civil 3D Model Templates. Understandably, we want the pictures on the screen to make sense. Maybe you noticed that most of the Standard Styles don’t do that or maybe just barely. I argued from the get-go that Civil 3D Styles sooner or later become a content commodity. Civil 3D Styles should…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 04, 2019
Tags TREF, project template, sheet set template, CAD Standards, Reference Template, sheet template, standards, video
The Autodesk 2020.1 Updates are now in full swing. The AutoCAD 2020.1 Update was released on the opening day of Autodesk’s 3rd fiscal quarter. We Autodesk end-users sometimes tend to forget that Autodesk is a publicly traded company. The perceptions of shareholders and stock analysts matter. Public Autodesk events happen due to the rules of that game and the vagaries…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 06, 2019
Tags AutoCAD 2020, Update, block, multileader, video, CAD Standards, management, table, tablestyle, project template
For reasons that should be obvious, I get questions all the time about configuring and implementing Civil 3D from customers both small and large. Always happy to help. To get Civil 3D to run is sort of built into the automated Autodesk install. How those install defaults allow the software work are probably not exactly what most people want to employ in a real Civil 3D production environment. You…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 01, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, setup, install, survey, survey db, project template, workspace, profile