I flap my lips, wave my hands about, and rant all the time about the importance of the Proactive System Management of the project-based Civil 3D data behind. Yes. This Civil 3D DREF stuff is important. A customer success story surrounding this Civil 3D model magic makes my day.
One Framework for Civil 3D customer, a Civil 3D CAD Manager for a good-sized…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 20, 2021
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template
Our annotative work is mission critical to our performance and productivity in Autodesk Civil 3D. People do complain about the nuance and complexity of Civil 3D annotation. The work is on the mission critical path of the successful execution of the multiple deliverable sets of any civil engineering or survey project. Best we pay attention and acquire…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 12, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, XREF, DREF, annotation, annotative scale, video, iPOD, DWF, alignment
There are uncomfortable and unexpected truths squirrelled away in the simplest annotative tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. Model-based software means some basic tasks are fundamentally different and more complex for seemingly no apparent reason. There is a reason as we shall see.
Indeed, some planned and managed complexity can provide us with more bang for the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 10, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, publish on demand, iPOD, site parcel, site
Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Let’s call this the lust for One and Done. For surveyors this may mean Point data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files and COGO points to better manage your…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 05, 2020
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, widening, publish on demand, iPOD
Autodesk introduced a new and much improved manage Data References tool in Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.1+. Autodesk also cascaded that same mission-critical code back into the Civil 3D 2019.3+ Updates. If you employ a reasonably current version of Civil 3D, there is better Data Reference (DREF) fix it tool. At the time, Autodesk sort of made a big deal about this. We all know that some…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 22, 2020
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template