The practice of Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement and the mechanics of Civil 3D Style Import require the thoughtful examination of the tools inside the software and the multiple methods we can employ to assemble and validate Style Collections into well-integrated Civil 3D Template Targets. We want to know how to combine…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 31, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Import
Civil 3D contains numerous details that can come back to bite us when we proactively tackle Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement. We do tend to take for granted the classic AutoCAD Styles. We already know all about that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years.
We believe that…“We already have all of that ACAD stuff covered…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 23, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, block, textstyle, Layer Standards, Spreadsheet Tools
Just prior to Autodesk University 2024 in San Deigo this week, Autodesk announced that the mothership is now an official LA 2028 Olympics sponsor. For the Northern California tech company that generates a ton of money from the AEC Industry, the Media and Entertainment crowd, and Manufacturing worldwide so a Design and Make sponsorship makes obvious…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2024
Tags AU 2024, WATT, UNITS, Label Style, Label Style Defaults
Sometimes a broken Reference problem in Civil 3D will stare us right in the face and we still miss and/or cannot find and/or see the reason why. Been there. Done that. Got my T shirt. How can this be? Out here in Civil 3D Land every day we use this vital and basic file Reference stuff like our lives depend on it.
If you tell me that the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2024
Tags DWF, XREF, IREF, TREF, project template, Data Shortcut Manager, Reference Explorer, Project Management
Speaking of word salads…Sometimes we simply have to shake our heads in wonder.
A number of media folks published a rash of recent news articles about the oldest known “English tombstone” found in Jamestown, Virginia. This standing stone is somewhat unique. Archaeologists discovered that the carved black knight’s tombstone was not of North American origin.
The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 03, 2024
Tags WATT