There’s an elegant simplicity to Data Shortcut and Data Reference (DREF) functionality in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Autodesk just built an XML based “website”. We can call it a website because a Data Shortcut is a published link in a simple folder structure. Through that structure of links we are allowed share the…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2013
Tags Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, 2012, 2013, 2014, DREF, XREF
CAD Standards for AutoCAD Civil 3D in public agencies are not and cannot be the same as they were for old CAD based software. All of those CAD applications improved upon hand-drafting, by reduction of the replication of basic drawing work and adding some “design” tools to do that faster. The result: work took fewer the man-hours. We could also be more detailed in less time.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 17, 2013
Tags standards, CAD Stamdards, ncs, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0
The football season is back. So is the federal budget debacle after a digression.
We all get to play Fantasy Football whether we like it or not.
The fantasy that a well-educated and skilled manager and his staff can invent inside a financial spreadsheet is truly a terrible thing.
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I'm a manager. I'm a business person. I've done it myself and done it to myself more than once.…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 16, 2013
Tags WATT
The vast majority of Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D are annotative. Mostly these are Label Styles although Table Styles can also help us out significantly as well. These Styles are designed to pump out the Civil 3D data we create in the Civil Features in alpha-numeric or “textual” formats.
When you check out the Label Styles in the Toolspace>>Settings tab you also discover the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2013
Tags customization, implementation, Style, Style Management, settings, lsd, Label Style Defaults, hierarchy
Inside AutoCAD Civil 3D we have to remember to consciously readjust your focus. The classic defensive driving “cycle” metaphor works - Window>> Review Mirror>> Side Mirror>> Speedometer>> Window.
Civil 3D Driver Training
In Civil 3D, we should replace that basic pattern with Screen>>Ribbon>>Command Line>>Toolspace>>Screen. I’d argue the screen…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Sep 09, 2013