We use Autodesk Civil 3D. We are dependent on the software to get our project work done and to execute our production work and deliverables. Beyond those obvious ones, the number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appear to do nothing but increase. Dependencies are trending and tend to explode.
Maybe…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 25, 2020
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video
I intentionally employ the metaphor of the US Constitutional principal of the Separation of Powers to talk about how civil engineers and surveyors need to systematically manage to divide and conquer resources and more inside and around Civil 3D. The Arts of Separation help us all to employ the software successfully in production.
The principals of separation are, as they…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 16, 2020
Tags implementation, Project Management, Style Management, names, Dynamiic Model, change management, XREF, DREF, TREF, CAD Standards
The first thing you are going to want to know about the new Civil 3D Projects in BIM 360 Design is - Will this cloudy stuff work for our Civil 3D projects? You sat in on the Civil 3D Futures session at Autodesk University 2019 or any of the AU 2019 sessions that dipped their toes into the new Civil 3D for BIM 360 Design. Perhaps you’ve watched one of recorded webinars available…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 27, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, BIM 360, project template, project, Project Management, Connector, DREF, XREF, IREF, TREF, Reference Template, data shortcut
We’ve discussed the topic of Data References (DREF) in Autodesk Civil 3D and the important Object Model challenges we simply have to deal with in our Civil 3D projects. This DREF chatter spawns a bunch of questions about Civil 3D Surfaces, Surface DREFs, and how to make them work better and faster. The existing and design surface discussion takes a few words and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2019
Tags surface, Surface Style, DREF, data shortcuts, data reference, survey db, survey figure, landxml, video, QAQC, surface edit, XML
Boo! Now, we can run Civil 3D projects in the cloud. That’s spooky. The scary news arrives just in time for Halloween. To some folks out there in Civil 3D Land, this event will be a bit unnerving. We’ll get over it.
Autodesk released the latest Civil 3D 2020.2 Update. The focus of Update 2 is Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D with a pointed…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 31, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, BIM 360, Project Management, Upgrade, XREF, IREF, DREF, video, TREF