Lots of people in Civil 3D Land are truly committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. Nothing is 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 Ribbon tools to help us get ‘er done.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 20, 2021
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, corridor surface, Project Management, video, DREF
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment, its child Profiles, child Offset Alignments, their slope-controlled Profiles, Curb Return Alignments and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins, and Intersections. Sooner or later, we discover that…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 24, 2021
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization
Do we ask the right questions about Civil 3D and how we use it?
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By definition…Probably not. We human beings tend to not ask questions about what we believe we already know how to do. We rely too much on habit. We could call this the human autopilot. The autopilot works 95%+ of the time. Our brains spend a good deal of invisible time behind the scenes working on those building those structures…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 18, 2021
Tags customization, implementation, alignment, points, surface, corridor, grading, Jump Kit, Templates Only, project template, Style Management
Once more unto the breech, dear friends. A new Civil 3D 2022 is upon us like a tide. Should I quit with the Shakespeare references? Is this simply too much Kingly literary reference for civil engineers and survey folk? Funny. Did not I hear a speech much like King Henry’s just this week? Pomp and masked circumstance signifying what exactly? Churchill’s take was far more apt.
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 29, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, AddOn, Release 8, Jump Kit, Civil 3D 2022, Surface Style, surface
New and improved choices of Civil 3D Style Tools can and do significantly affect our daily production work in Autodesk Civil 3D. The Framework for Civil 3D products deliver those improved results and the significant rewards that we receive when we thoughtfully employ those Style Tools in a managed Civil 3D production environment and project.
Let me repeat…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 16, 2021
Tags AddOn, Jump Kit, Expression Set, surface, grading, corridor, video, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, expressions