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Autodesk Vault 2010 Update 2 Released

Tench Tilghman — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT

As usual many of the fixed issues do not directly involve AutoCAD Civil 3D issues.

However, Update 2 for release 2010 does provide performance and error fixes. This update may be important to you if you have upgraded Vault 2009 databases and sites.

Most of the issues are data integrity, performance and ...

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Update 3.1 Released

Tench Tilghman — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:20:00 GMT

On Friday August 13 2010, Autodesk released Update 3.1 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010.

Here's the link

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15407692&linkID=9240698

Read the install instructions CAREFULLY.

As always the order that you do things will either save you work or make your More work.

Performance Update for Vault and Civil 3D 2011

Tench Tilghman — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:45:00 GMT

Friday Aug 13, 2011 - If you employ Autodesk Vault with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, there is a new Hot Fix you might want to install.

The Autodesk 2011 Hot Fix improves the performance of the mapinsert command with the Vault Client.

Use Map and Civil3D with Vault? Get the Hot Fix ...

What is the Transconomy?

AASHTO — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:50:00 GMT

Thursday, July 08, 2010 - AASHTO had a press conferences in Des Moines, Iowa; Memphis, Tennessee; and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to feature their release of their report Unlocking Freight.

The national media and Congress basically chose to ignore the entire deal and the substance of this unforgiving report as far as ...

Digging into AutoCAD Civl 3D 2010 - Meet Rick Ellis in CA

Tench Tilghman — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:54:00 GMT

Rick Ellis of Cadapult Software Solutions will be the speaker @ the North Bay Civil Users Group meeting on

Wednesday, August 18th @ 5:30pm

If you live and work in Northern CA, this is a rare opportunity to hear Rick Ellis speak and learn More about Data References. Rick will be there virtually.

There ...

New RSS Feeds for Blogs

Tench Tilghman — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:00:00 GMT

In our on-going effort to just Make Stuff Work better we have redone the RSS feeds on the Cadpilot and fixed an on-going problem with the site's Search Index that was producing bad links to when you searched for blog posts on the site.

Thank you to our readers who ...

Larry Young "Live" Joins the Cadpilot

Tench Tilghman — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:04:46 GMT

The master AutoCAD Civil 3D trainer and expert, Larry Young, is now posting on the Cadpilot.

You can find his regular posts all sorted out at

Make IT Civil 3D

AutoCAD 2011 No Experienced Required

Tench Tilghman — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:18:13 GMT

Donnie Gladfleter , who writes a great blog - The CAD Geek about many things Autodesk has authored a new book on AutoCAD 2011.

AutoCAD 2011 No Experienced Required

You can take a look on Amazon.

Donnie also got married last month too. Life is good.

Update 3 for AutoCAD Civil 2010 Released

Tench Tilghman — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:26:00 GMT

July 20, 2010 - Autodesk releases Update 3 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010.

Many of the fixes included in the update fix AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map platform issues as well.

The list of fixes is large and detailed.
Here are the major issues from the Civil 3D section of the ...

Share Your STB Story

Tench Tilghman — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:05:00 GMT

A recent post on www.cadpilot.com on the topic of converting from using CTB (color based plotting) to STB (NAMED style based plotting) generated More than a bit of interest.

Share Your STB Story

Send me an email with even just the outline of your story and we'll include it in a future set of ...

SAVE the Federal Government

tencht — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:01:00 GMT

The President’s SAVE (Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency) Award fulfills a campaign commitment by enabling Federal employees from across the government to submit their ideas for efficiencies and savings as part of the annual Budget process.

The goal of the SAVE Award is to produce ideas that will yield savings while also ...

Autodesk University 2010 Speaker from the CadPilot

Tench Tilghman — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:27:00 GMT

This year Tench Tilghman again will be presenting classes at Autodesk University 2010. AU 2010, the worldwide Autodesk Users Conference, is from Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, NV. Registration for the event opens in August 2010.

Tench is doing yet another in his on-going and ...

Telerik is Winner of a 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award

tencht — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:25:00 GMT

SOFIA, BULGARIA — 28 June 2010 — Recognising excellence in the partner network in Central and Eastern Europe, Microsoft today announced that Telerik, a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET, was recognized as a ...

2011 Survey Hot Fix Released

Tench Tilghman — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:56:00 GMT

The Survey 2011 hotfix contains the solutions to the following issues.

Creating a feature line from a closed polyline with assigned elevations no longer causes the program to exit.
Help now appears as expected when running Civil 3D as AutoCAD 2011.
Datasets containing large numbers of control and non-control points ...

Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis Stand-Alone is Released

Tench Tilghman — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:28:00 GMT

AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map 3D subscription customers in North America can now download Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis Stand-Alone.

Go Get your Goodies!

A few months ago, Autodesk acquired BOSS International. One of the important BOSS products was StormNET.

Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis Stand-Alone is the ...