Civil engineers and surveyors know Autodesk makes powerful civil software tools. Civil 3D is big complex software. We all quickly discover there are lots of moving pieces and tons of intimate details involved. No matter what, we’ve got to get all of that detail straight and working well together into an integrated system if we want a truly productive Civil 3D working environment.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 17, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only, Upgrade, video, Reference Template
Our challenge as Civil 3D users and Civil 3D Standards managers is often to proactively discover inventive ways to make the imperfect productive.
The recent AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.2 Update seems to have broken parts of the Attach Reference Template dialog box and Manage Referenced Settings panel functionality.
Whoop-de-do. I do admit…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 07, 2018
Tags CAD Standards, Reference Template, template, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, video, Style Management
Autodesk added some new tools to help us better manage Reference Templates in the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.1 update. This is great news! The new functionality in the Attach Reference Template box via the new Manage Reference Settings dialog box means we may seriously need to consider a Reference Template Naming Convention. Oh, no!…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 12, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Update, Reference Template, implementation, CAD Standards, Style, Style Management, video
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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Posted by
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