Autodesk continues to improve the capabilities and performance of their new design grading application tool – Autodesk Grading Optimization (GO). Grading Optimization was initially released with the Civil 3D 2022 introduction last spring. Sadly, GO is not a part of Civil 3D. Like the powerful and useful Project Explorer for Civil 3D, Grading…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 18, 2022
Tags Grading Optimization, GO, Civil 3D 2022, Update, NCS 6.0, STB, CTB, video, Layer Standards, CAD Standards
You have a classic Civil 3D Template that works. You are just about already good to go with a simple TREF implementation using the Reference Template Tool. What’s a TREF? In Civil 3D we know all about and employ XREFs (external reference drawing files), DREFs (Data references to the Civil 3D data behind), and IREFs…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 18, 2019
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Civil 3D 2020, Layer Standards, STB, CTB, TREF, Reference Template, Style Management, template, video
Got Mr Fusion. Are you ready to travel? Did you blow dry this morning?
To quote the Bay Area 80’s jazz funk by Huey Lewis and the News from Back in Time…“All I wanted to do, was play my guitar and sing”
Geez. I hate to admit that I almost bit off more than I could chew this spring. I set out the clean up the humongous Style…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 13, 2019
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Civil 3D 2020, Layer Standards, STB, CTB, TREF, Reference Template, Upgrade, Style Management, video
The Framework for Civil 3D supports Adaptive Layer Standards in many releases of Civil 3D. That means you can produce project work in one official and compliant Layer Standard - maybe the NCS 6.0 and still produce deliverables in perhaps another Layer Standard like the NCS 6.0 AIA standard.
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Sounds crazy… We know.
It’s all about the hidden potential…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 16, 2019
Tags Release 8, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, STB, CTB, CAD Standards, Adaptive, plotstyle
These days the Framework for Civil 3D products are STB and CTB agnostic. Civil 3D doesn’t care. Why should the Framework? That was the big deal when Release 7 of the Framework first came out. If we make reasonable concessions to a governing set of Layer Property rules and continue to pay extra careful attention to the details, we can publish in either publishing method.
Because this almost…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 10, 2019
Tags STB, CTB, CAD Standards, publish on demand, implementation, Layer Standards