Most of us who employ Autodesk Civil 3D in production environments are familiar with the mechanics to replace External References (XREF) in our working and/or publication drawings. The Survey dept updates the existing annotation for the proposed project’s Parcel map. Survey may overwrite the previously shared XREF drawing. They may provide a separate and differently…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 15, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Behind, data reference, data shortcut, video, DWF, iPOD
We will wrap up the calendar year 2022 and unwrap a collection of the Top 5 Best Civil 3D Production Tips? Why not. Everyone loves a top five list. I use the production word here not the productivity one even though both do apply in this context.
This post may have a Civil 3D management and implementation bias over a classic set…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 28, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, CAD Standards, Corridors, Data Shortcut Manager, TREF, DREF, Project Management, BIM Collaborate Pro
Are we are talking about the latest software changes and improvements to Civil 3D? There is a recent Autodesk Civil 3D 2023.2.2 Update that includes some useful performance improvements and better Autodesk Cloud behaviors with the Autodesk Desktop Connector 16.0.0.1902 Update. Today we are not here to discuss that type of feature.
We are here to talk about…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 14, 2022
Tags Civil 3D, implementation, project template, sheet set template, sheet template, template, XREF, DREF, IREF
How many times in Autodesk Civil 3D do we get a complex civil engineering design or survey dataset right the first time? Almost never. This reality is a most important fact about Civil 3D. To employ Civil 3D constructively in a real-world project-based production environment, we need to plan to fail forward.
What the heck does that mean?Sounds like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2022
Tags iterations, DREF, design control, design state, grading, Multiple Baseline Corridors, DWF, iPOD, Project Management
Many, if not most, of our Civil 3D Projects will involve multiple forms of Reference Replacement. Many of us employ the classic External References (XREF) basemap strategy in our plan set publication.
There are two common scenarios here. The Survey dept must update the existing annotation for the proposed project’s Parcel map. Survey can…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 13, 2022
Tags reference, XREF, DREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Shortcut Manager, Data Shortcut Editor, Reference Explorer, video