It would be safe to say that our Framework for Civil 3D products employ and create a lot of the common and more popular standards in the US marketplace for Autodesk Civil 3D. As they say - a large part of success is just surviving and staying around. Focus and practice can also be a good thing. These have a dark side as we shall see.
The people who manage…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 27, 2025
Tags CAD Standards, Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2025, Implementation, Adaptive, people skills
Whether or not we choose to employ Styleless Data References in our Civil 3Dprojects is a business decision that deserves some careful consideration. There are Civil 3D technical, stability, and project performance reasons to take the time to do so.
For the most part the NoStyles workflow mechanics are mindlessly simple to execute. In the context of most…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 20, 2025
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, implementation, QAQC, project template
We previously discussed the challenges that surround the formal data Dependencies that play an integral role our daily production work inside Autodesk Civil 3D. It is safe to say that we learn to manage Dependencies, or the Dependencies control us.
Put another way – we employ Civil 3D to produce managed projects of data references and those…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 13, 2025
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, Style Management, implementation, QAQC
We are dependent on Autodesk Civil 3D to get our project work done and to execute our work and produce our deliverables. The number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appears to do nothing but increase and become more complex. Dependencies are trending and dependencies also tend to explode.
Software…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 06, 2025
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video