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
Happy New Year! Let’s proactively start the New Year with a talk about some practical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
I manage and maintain an enormous set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D. Most folks see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D products that are delivered from this site. I had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, Style Library, Update
Funny. People almost never call and ask if their Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Standards have reached their end of life. Should our Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and other Civil 3D resources have an expiration date? Do we expect the latest Civil 3D Release Upgrade or Civil 3D Update will make the call on the field?
Wonder of wonders.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 29, 2023
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Update, CAD Standards
The Is it Worth it in Civil 3D Paradox demands some of our consideration. Out here in Civil 3D Land there’s an intriguing notion about Autodesk Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and Civil 3D resources development. Is the customization of Civil 3D worth it? This is hardly a toss-up.
One side of the Civil 3D development…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 09, 2023
Tags customization, implementation, project, Civil 3D, CAD Standards, development
To get ready for the upcoming Autodesk Civil 3D 2024.1 Update, Autodesk recently released Civil 3D Object Model updates for the older Autodesk Civil 3D 2023, Autodesk Civil 3D 2022, and Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 releases. This collection of Civil 3D Updates fixes some important release specific code issues and supplies…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 28, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, CAD Standards, NCS 6.0, video