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Intentionally, I employ the US Constitution’s analogy of the Separation of Powers to talk about how civil engineers and surveyors need to systematically manage to divide and conquer resources inside and outside Civil 3D. The perspective allows us to employ the software successfully in production.

The Principals of Separation are, as they say, self-evident. The practical…

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You may notice that it is easy to find something to study statistically that we all like to do. On the surface this ever-present and popular effort appears to make a lot of rational sense. People like to eat or do this or that. We have oodles of studies that examine the potential effects, side effects, and potential consequences of our habits and desires. The studies generate social…

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The Reference Template Tool in Civil 3D employs provides us a different approach to the consistent delivery of effective, production Civil 3D Templates and Known Good Style collection resources. The Reference Template (TREF) Tool allows us to assemble Civil 3D resource targets, partially manage them, and deliver standardized resource…

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The Civil 3D Template Classic Target methods are the common Civil 3D Template construction and maintenance methodologies used to produce a target of collected Civil 3D Style resources. Many people consider a Civil 3D Template to be their Known Good and perhaps even their Style Management end goal.…

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Civil 3D improves with the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2023.2 Update. For all of us in Civil 3D Land that means we must pay attention to our Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Style Libraries, and other mission critical Civil 3D resources on which our daily Civil 3D production work depends.

It’s a Civil 3D Update…

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