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Let’s proactively start off a new year with a chat about some practical and mission critical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.

Around here we build, manage, and maintain an enormous and deep set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Style resources for multiple releases of Civil 3D.

Like everyone else we had to learn the hard way to systematically…

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Out here in Civil 3D Land there’s an intriguing notion about Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and Civil 3D resources development.

One side of the Autodesk Civil 3D development coin claims we must all do the complex customization work to create exactly what we need to get our work done…

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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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For reasons that deserve explanation, Autodesk Civil 3D includes some apparent contradictions. There are formal sets of dualities built into Civil 3D. Whether we perceive and/or employ these model-based software pairings for our benefit is another matter. Sadly, every Civil 3D user struggles with these dualities to one degree or another.

Frankly, it’s even a bit difficult…

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Every once in a while a new Framework for Civil 3D customer calls and asks why we put the “- JS” at the end of all the Framework Style names. The simple device of adding a suffix serves a very significant purpose. The suffix helps to answer the first most important question about using and customizing Autodesk Civil 3D…

“How…

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