Civil 3D Land is awash with help and video resources. Those of us who prognosticate about the software all have our personal inventories of go-to resources. Is cadpilot.com one of yours? At times we experts act like the White House press corps repeating the crud purveyed by those around us without much consideration of our audience or their real world problems. Sorry, I too succumb…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 17, 2017
Tags Survey, Reference Template, legend, list, alignment, export
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 02, 2017
Tags bucket, feature, Name Template, template, Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017
We’ve set out on an Unexpected Journey. In AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 we have a new Reference Template Tool offered up with the idea of a State Template>>Company Template>>Project Template hierarchy and vernacular. It works as a sales pitch. Sadly, this vague Civil 3D help file expression of the idea pretty much ignores some of the realities of the Civil 3D Style and Settings mechanics…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 09, 2017
Tags Reference Template, Style Management, template, implementation, Civil 3D 2017
When Autodesk introduces a new tool into AutoCAD Civil 3D we get a bunch of opening hype about it followed by a pause as the real folks in Civil 3D Land try and figure out a way to make the new tool work. Reference Templates in Civil 3D 2017 are no exception. The tool sounds great. People ask…
“How do we make the Reference Template tool work?”
Maybe…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 07, 2017
Tags Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017, Style Management, Style, template, implementation
Let’s be frank. To some degree the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 Reference Template tool is a way for Autodesk to dodge some of the recurring maintenance issues (problems) of the Style Import Tool.
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Put another way – instead of reporting and potentially resolving Style property conflicts between different versions of two Civil 3D object models in two different…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 02, 2017
Tags implementation, Reference Template, template, Civil 3D 2017