Most of us who employ Autodesk Civil 3D in production environments are familiar with the mechanics to replace External References (XREF) in our working and/or publication drawings. The Survey dept updates the existing annotation for the proposed project’s Parcel map. Survey may overwrite the previously shared XREF drawing. They may provide a separate and differently…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 15, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Behind, data reference, data shortcut, video, DWF, iPOD
Data References (DREFs) in Autodesk Civil 3D are all about published Managed Models built inside our civil engineering and survey projects. These models effectively can help us achieve better Civil 3D production results with less hassle. We employ DREFs to share a model, or as I call it …the Civil 3D data behind, from a drawing to other drawings…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 12, 2020
Tags DREF, data shortcut, data reference, Project Management, dynamic model, naming convention, rules, structure
We use Autodesk Civil 3D. We are dependent on the software to get our project work done and to execute our production work and deliverables. Beyond those obvious ones, the number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appear to do nothing but increase. Dependencies are trending and tend to explode.
Maybe…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 25, 2020
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video
Should we wrap up the calendar year 2019 and unwrap a collection of the 10 best Civil 3D production tips? Why not. Everyone loves a top ten list. I used the production word here not the productivity one even though both definitely do apply in this context.
This post has a decided Civil 3D management and implementation bias over the classic Civil 3D user…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 30, 2019
Tags BIM 360, ArcInfo, Connector, dwf, TREF, Batch Save, corridor, names, data reference, project template, Project Management, project, Civil 3D 2020
We’ve discussed the topic of Data References (DREF) in Autodesk Civil 3D and the important Object Model challenges we simply have to deal with in our Civil 3D projects. This DREF chatter spawns a bunch of questions about Civil 3D Surfaces, Surface DREFs, and how to make them work better and faster. The existing and design surface discussion takes a few words and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2019
Tags surface, Surface Style, DREF, data shortcuts, data reference, survey db, survey figure, landxml, video, QAQC, surface edit, XML