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
Back in the day, I was once the 1st Cook in a not so famous restaurant in Miami. The steak and seafood house’s claim to fame was a truly gigantic salt water aquarium that featured the first living coral reef to ever succeed in captivity.
The one-of-a-kind aquarium separated the nightly hot spot bar from the restaurant’s open kitchen and large dining room. How big was this thing?…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 26, 2024
Tags WATT, Training, customization, Jump Kit, Templates Only
Civil 3D maintenance and upkeep is a huge topic. The better cures for the most common Autodesk Civil 3D maintenance issues are probably best administered in small doses over long periods of time. Rather than having to lose 20 pounds, it is far better to never gain those extra pounds in the first place. Sadly, that’s not usually how it gets done out here in the real world.
If we think about…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 25, 2024
Tags Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D, Batch Save, Reference Template, Reference Explorer, tips, maintenance, Implementation
Our work stays the same and our work changes. This is certainly true for Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. Civil 3D Users mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Those that claim to have conquered this beast in Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 01, 2024
Tags Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, TREF