Our preference of graphic symbols/blocks may become problematic in our Civil 3D customization. Managed systematically blocks can make your Civil 3D Standards more flexible and adaptive. These simple AutoCAD things can have a significant impact in our project work. Case in point - If I change all the block representations in a project drawing by refining the blocks, your all too familiar work can…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 31, 2019
Tags symbol, Symbol Set, block, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, change management, spreadsheet, Style Management
I’ve had a rash of product and consulting service inquiries from new and potential Framework for Civil 3D customers with some astounding Civil 3D implementation upgrade issues. These days I guess the politically correct tech term is challenges not issues or problems. The change and implementation difficulties these folks face remain all too real. Lest you think you, I, or anyone else is…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 29, 2019
Tags customization, implementation, Release 8, Civil 3D 2019, CAD Standards, Style Management, Jump Kit, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
Your organization or firm invested money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software – Civil 3D. You (or someone else) will have work hard to make the Autodesk Civil 3D software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably.
Every Civil 3D expert and most experienced Civil 3D users will tell you, “You need a Civil 3D template.”
They’re…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 15, 2019
Tags standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, customization, implementation, Style Management, Civil 3D 2019
These days the Framework for Civil 3D products are STB and CTB agnostic. Civil 3D doesn’t care. Why should the Framework? That was the big deal when Release 7 of the Framework first came out. If we make reasonable concessions to a governing set of Layer Property rules and continue to pay extra careful attention to the details, we can publish in either publishing method.
Because this almost…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 10, 2019
Tags STB, CTB, CAD Standards, publish on demand, implementation, Layer Standards
The deployment and implementation of any new Civil 3D release involves both significant opportunity and risk. No matter what, we all know it can steal our time. We all have a love to hate relationship with new product releases and upgrades.
This time of year firms consider upgrading their production version of Civil 3D for all the usual Civil 3D Update reasons. The first Civil 3D…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 08, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, deployment, implementation, training, customization, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Upgrade