A Civil 3D CAD Manager from a regional civil engineering firm called me the other day. The topic of the Civil 3D Survey functionality for one reason or another came up in our conversation. For those of you who follow this blog, you know I’m a Civil 3D Survey fan for a host of reasons.
The CAD Manager claimed his firm had tried Survey once or twice, but these days ignored…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 21, 2018
Tags survey, survey db, Symbol Set, alignment, point group, iPOD, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
One of the common user complaints about Civil 3D is the repetitive way you must crawl around the file system to find and get resources. This is certainly one of my pet peeves. Civil 3D has a lot of potential resources. Back in the day, we called the default install’s resource structure…
Down the Rabbit Hole
The reference to Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 08, 2018
Tags implementation, management, survey, query, video, Civil 3D 2018, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2017
No matter what release of Civil 3D you want to run, you can bet that the Framework for Civil 3D runs on it. You can also bet on the fact that the Jump Kit you already own will also continue to also improve over time.
All our Framework for Civil 3D customers have to do is show up to download the new goodies.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 03, 2018
Tags AddOn, spreadsheet, Jump Kit, Civil 3D 2019, Survey, Civil 3D 2018, Layer Standards, ncs 5.0, NCS 6.0
Our civil engineering customers say that Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome design solution for Civil 3D. You get production Civil 3D templates that work. These include one of the largest and most robust Civil 3D Styles libraries on the planet bar none.
Our survey customers say that the Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome survey solution for…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 01, 2018
Tags codes, survey point, survey figure, survey db, Description Key, Description Key Set, point group, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
AutoCAD Civil 3D can be the software surveyors love to hate. Maybe that should read hate to love? Unquestionably, Autodesk immediately messed with the established survey CAD workflows. In truth, they even messed with the core essential meanings of many familiar things like Point, Figure, and Alignment.
Historically, Autodesk also probably took way too long to sort out the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 27, 2018
Tags survey, survey db, point group, Description Key Set, survey figure, implementation, surface, points, Point Style, Point Label Style, video