For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2025
Tags project template, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, Project Management, performance
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
The latest and greatest Framework for Civil 3D 2025.2 Update products officially hit the street this week. The latest Jump Kit Release 8 product for Civil 3D 2025.2 includes huge libraries of well-crafted, integrated, and system-managed Civil 3D content resources.
This increased Liberty to Work in Civil 3D is a fundamental goal of all Framework…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 04, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2025, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, CAD Standards
In Civil 3D, the Reference Template Tool in Civil 3D provides us an improved approach to the consistent delivery of effective, production Civil 3D Templates and Known Good Style collection resources. The Reference Template (TREF) Tool is one excellent reason we employ the term target to help differentiate the various…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 26, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, implementation, TREF
The Civil 3D Template Classic Target methods are the common Civil 3D Template construction and maintenance methodologies used to produce a target of collected Civil 3D Style resources. Many people consider a Civil 3D Template to be their Known Good and perhaps even their Style Management end goal.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 19, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, settings