What is a Civil 3D Project Sandbox? If we create, edit, and manage Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and other Civil 3D production resources we have a Civil 3D Project Sandbox. We may not call it that. At the bare minimum this vital and mission critical Civil 3D resource is a single example drawing we employ to develop, edit, and manage Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 17, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Upgrade, Project Management, project template, project, NCS 6.0, Style Management
Here is something serious to consider or maybe that is something to consider seriously? Here’s an intriguing notion about Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and other Civil 3D resources development concerns what we might want to call The Is It Worth it in Civil 3D Paradox.
One side of the Civil 3D development coin says…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 25, 2021
Tags customization, Civil 3D, Style Management, Jump Kit, CAD Standards, change management
Here is an important fact that may surprise you: Most of our civil engineering and survey customers already had their own set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Styles when they purchased the Framework for Autodesk Civil 3D. These folks recognize the simple fact that reinventing and maintaining the Civil 3D torture wheel is a significant waste of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 20, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, template, Reference Template, project template, Style Management
Do we ask the right questions about Civil 3D and how we use it?
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By definition…Probably not. We human beings tend to not ask questions about what we believe we already know how to do. We rely too much on habit. We could call this the human autopilot. The autopilot works 95%+ of the time. Our brains spend a good deal of invisible time behind the scenes working on those building those structures…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 18, 2021
Tags customization, implementation, alignment, points, surface, corridor, grading, Jump Kit, Templates Only, project template, Style Management
The on-going Style Maintenance of our Civil 3D Templates is a significant and complex information management problem. There is the raw numbers problem. There are lots of kinds of Civil 3D Feature Styles and many types of Civil 3D Label Styles for us to manage.
There is the larger critical path Style problem - the variety of purpose. The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 08, 2021
Tags Style Management, Style, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Civil 3D, Upgrade, Update, property, implementation