Our work stays the same and our work changes. This is certainly true for Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. Civil 3D Users mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Those that claim to have conquered this beast in Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 01, 2024
Tags Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, TREF
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there is the large, critical path Style problem. There is real user need for Style Choice. Civil 3D Styles have a variety of purpose. There are clearly Styles and Label Styles we need to employ for different purposes. Civil engineering design and survey processes involve creation, edit, QAQC, and an increasing number of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 17, 2024
Tags Style Management, Style, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Civil 3D, Upgrade, Update, property, implementation
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 Reference Template Tool in Civil 3D employs provides us a different approach to the consistent delivery of effective, production Civil 3D Templates and Known Good Style collection resources. The Reference Template (TREF) Tool allows us to assemble Civil 3D resource targets, partially manage them, and deliver standardized resource…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 16, 2022
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, implementation
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