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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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Whether or not we choose to employ Styleless Data References in our Civil 3Dprojects is a business decision that deserves some careful consideration. There are Civil 3D technical, stability, and project performance reasons to take the time to do so.

For the most part the NoStyles workflow mechanics are mindlessly simple to execute. In the context of most…

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We previously discussed the challenges that surround the formal data Dependencies that play an integral role our daily production work inside Autodesk Civil 3D. It is safe to say that we learn to manage Dependencies, or the Dependencies control us.

Put another way – we employ Civil 3D to produce managed projects of data references and those…

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For reasons that deserve explanation, Autodesk Civil 3D includes some apparent contradictions. There are formal sets of dualities built into Civil 3D. Whether we perceive and/or employ these model-based software pairings for our benefit is another matter. Sadly, every Civil 3D user struggles with these dualities to one degree or another.

Frankly, it’s even a bit difficult…

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Every once in a while a new Framework for Civil 3D customer calls and asks why we put the “- JS” at the end of all the Framework Style names. The simple device of adding a suffix serves a very significant purpose. The suffix helps to answer the first most important question about using and customizing Autodesk Civil 3D…

“How…

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