Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of immediate and published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Can we call this lust the One and Done? For surveyors this may mean Point data from Survey Dbs. I trust we have all moved beyond imported point files and drawing-centric COGO points? The Lord…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 12, 2024
Tags annotation, annotative scale, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style Management, Style Library, DREF, XREF, IREF, TREF
Autodesk Civil 3D Label Style choice and preference is a bit of a quandary for all of us out here in Civil 3D Land. We do attempt to address that complex Civil 3D management and maintenance challenge in our Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit products. Most customers seem to agree we do a pretty good job. No product is perfect. This can be especially true when we thin…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 06, 2024
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Reference Template, Style Library, Style Management, Text Component Editor
Happy New Year! Let’s proactively start the New Year with a talk about some practical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
I manage and maintain an enormous set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D. Most folks see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D products that are delivered from this site. I had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, Style Library, Update
The Framework for Civil 3D is designed and built to be a consistent, robust, and adaptive managed system to help organizations and daily Civil 3D users employ Civil 3D in actual production project environments.
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The Framework is The Managed Toolset for Civil 3D.
If you employ Civil 3D, you want a copy of the Framework for Civil 3D.
Here are some of the many reasons…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 01, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, NCS, Templates Only, Jump Kit, Reference Template, Project Management, Style Management, Style Library, video
When we create something new and innovative, that product should make a productive difference in the lives of real folks doing the real work. We released the new and powerful Framework for Civil 3D Release 8 Spot Label Style AddOns for Civil 3D 2021 and Civil 3D 2020 last week. This Spot Label Style AddOn was the second Framework Label Style Expression Set for Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 04, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Label Style, surface, Expression Set, expressions, Style Library, video, Jump Kit, grading, corridor, site design