We discussed the term Bucket and the concepts of mini-buckets to make AutoCAD Civil 3D Features a bit easier to understand in the recent Civil 3D Production Buckets post. We discovered that there are What, How, When, and Model buckets to Civil 3D Features. There are important…
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Tench Tilghman
Mar 02, 2017
Tags bucket, feature, Name Template, template, Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017
Civil 3D Styles and Label Styles employ (reference) the AutoCAD named parts to express themselves. Civil 3D Style tools just look for and match the right names that we’ve agreed to. Change the meaning of the property definitions connected to those agreed names and you can change anything.
In formal terms employing the practice of Style management…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 28, 2016
Tags implementation, training, bucket, Name Template, dynamic model, names, Style Management
You know the drill. You get a job in a civil engineering and survey firm that hires you because you know AutoCAD Civil 3D. Heck. You passed the official Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D certification exam. In your hire day interview the firm owners even promise to upgrade to the latest release before you start.
That’s great. Opportunity knocks. Congrats.The Plans of Mice and Men
On…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 05, 2016
Tags CAD Standards, Style Management, Style, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, template, Name Template
Last post we splashed down and around the term Bucket to make Civil 3D Features a bit easier to get our heads around. There’s What, How, When, and Model buckets to AutoCAD Civil 3D Features. For all that strange stuff we have really only one chore.
Ripples in the Bucket
Each and every single Feature MUST have a unique name. This is an OOP (Object Oriented Programming)…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 28, 2013
Tags naming conventions, collector, bucket, Name Template, template, placeholder, standards, feature name