This week Autodesk released a major Update 6 for Civil 3D 2020. The Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.6 Update includes updated Civil 3D features, performance enhancements, significant fixes for many Civil 3D issues, and many important API enhancements for Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.
The Civil 3D 2020.6 Update is also a one stop shop Update improvement for Civil 3D 2020.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 22, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, Batch Save, Release 8, feature line, data shortcuts, Data Shortcut Editor, Jump Kit, Templates Only
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
Autodesk released the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2019.3 Update. This third, and perhaps the final, Update for Civil 3D 2019 basically includes major fixes to Data Shortcuts, the Subassembly Composer (SAC), the Traverse Editor, and many other related fix it updates for Civil 3D 2019. A detailed listing from the readme is included below.
The AutoCAD Civil 3D 2019.3 Update is…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 22, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Update, Service Pack, Traverse, data shortcuts, subassembly composer
Once you have a well-managed set of Civil 3D Styles and Civil 3D Template resources, there are a host of other production man-hour improvement tools available for you to employ inside Civil 3D. Many folks overlook the very tools that Civil 3D and Windows supply to do that. The time you invest to improve your Civil 3D Project Templates, their structure, and their detailed contents…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 06, 2018
Tags Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project, CAD Standards, data shortcuts, customization
There is a synergistic trinity of powertools available in the latest Release 7 update for Civil 3D 2019.1. We should consider that Civil 3D Project Templates, Reference Templates, and Project Placeholders are a powerful and productive triad. If we use them together, we get more project productivity than the sum of the parts. To…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 11, 2018
Tags Project Management, DREF, video, project template, project, CAD Standards, data shortcuts, Reference Template, Civil 3D 2019