We all learn about those nasty CAD Standards. We believe we get them down pat. Next thing we know, they come back and bite us at the most uncomfortable times.
“We cannot see the degree symbols (°) in labels in the survey parcel drawings.”
How does that happen?
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Everyone who uses AutoCAD knows that we just…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 18, 2026
Tags CAD Standards, font, text, definitions, NCS, NCS 6.0, NCS 7.0, ISO, special characters, ttf, shx
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
Autodesk Civil 3D Label Style choice and preference is a bit of a quandary for all of us out here in Civil 3D Land. We do attempt to address that complex Civil 3D management and maintenance challenge in our Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit products. Most customers seem to agree we do a pretty good job. No product is perfect. This can be especially true when we thin…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 06, 2024
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Reference Template, Style Library, Style Management, Text Component Editor
Another one of the truly maddening terms in Autodesk Civil 3D is that Reference word. Maybe Reference is not quite as confusing in Civil 3D as the word Point. But Reference appears to come close. We have External References, Data References, file references, and even Reference Templates. I could go on.
For reasons that may…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 15, 2020
Tags reference labels, reference text, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, surface, alignment, profile, Style Management, video
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. You know that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years. We believe that…
“We already have all of that stuff covered in our current CAD Standards.”
And…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 30, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, block, textstyle, Layer Standards