Boo! Now, we can run Civil 3D projects in the cloud. That’s spooky. The scary news arrives just in time for Halloween. To some folks out there in Civil 3D Land, this event will be a bit unnerving. We’ll get over it.
Autodesk released the latest Civil 3D 2020.2 Update. The focus of Update 2 is Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D with a pointed…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 31, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, BIM 360, Project Management, Upgrade, XREF, IREF, DREF, video, TREF
What makes me shudder are the rash of upcoming vision metaphors for anything related to 2020. Want to bet Autodesk marketing does it? Can you imagine the 2020 political campaign ads? Want to count the blind leading the blind allegories? If they get us focused on the count, we won’t notice how they play Three Card Monte. Hardly anyone will be able to resist. Eheh.
We are soon to be bombarded…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 07, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Style Management, corridor, feature line, DREF, XREF, Reference Template, project template
For reasons unknown I got a recent rash of questions about Civil 3D Label behavior when you employ XREFs. You do know you can label Civil 3D features from XREFs, don’t you?
Autodesk hasn’t really updated this functionality lately.
Yes. There are some weird things about it that can trip up the unwary.Where is 0,0,0?
It seems reasonable to most folks that two drawings…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 03, 2016
Tags XREF, alignment, group labels, Label Style, video
There’s an elegant simplicity to Data Shortcut and Data Reference (DREF) functionality in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Autodesk just built an XML based “website”. We can call it a website because a Data Shortcut is a published link in a simple folder structure. Through that structure of links we are allowed share the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 24, 2013
Tags Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, 2012, 2013, 2014, DREF, XREF
People tend to ring me up and ask the same stuff over and over. (Like things really change between releases or something ;). That’s a good thing for me and I trust for them too. Posts are often a somewhat imperfect answer to the issue at hand and maybe help get us on the right track.
Read morePosted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 07, 2012
Tags implementation, management, Project Management, DREF, XREF, data reference, reference, base map