We say that Civil 3D requires you have a viable working Civil 3D Template (.dwt) that includes a library of Civil 3D Styles when you start a drawing. I might argue that we should consider this dubious advice to be a bit of a deception for the unwary. I certainly don’t want it to be a stone that causes others to stumble. Like the Accuser’s three temptation questions…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 05, 2018
Tags Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project, CAD Standards, data shortcuts
Over time Civil 3D became more flexible about how we can store and manage our project work. That flexibility can make the whole Civil 3D project creation and setup process confusing. Let’s call project creation and the Data Shortcut setup flexible and adaptive and a bit non-intuitive.
The project folder structure you employ is totally up to you. Be aware that project folder structure should…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 03, 2018
Tags data shortcuts, Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project
There’s a sophisticated simplicity to Data Shortcut and Data Reference (DREF) functionality inside AutoCAD Civil 3D. To achieve a more powerful Managed Dynamic Model inside Civil 3D long ago Autodesk built a simple XML-based website to manage and control the interactivity of the data behind for many Civil 3D Features as shared Data…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 18, 2018
Tags Project Management, project, data reference, data shortcuts, DREF, video