We’ve set out on an Unexpected Journey. In AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 we have a new Reference Template Tool offered up with the idea of a State Template>>Company Template>>Project Template hierarchy and vernacular. It works as a sales pitch. Sadly, this vague Civil 3D help file expression of the idea pretty much ignores some of the realities of the Civil 3D Style and Settings mechanics…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 09, 2017
Tags Reference Template, Style Management, template, implementation, Civil 3D 2017
When Autodesk introduces a new tool into AutoCAD Civil 3D we get a bunch of opening hype about it followed by a pause as the real folks in Civil 3D Land try and figure out a way to make the new tool work. Reference Templates in Civil 3D 2017 are no exception. The tool sounds great. People ask…
“How do we make the Reference Template tool work?”
Maybe…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 07, 2017
Tags Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017, Style Management, Style, template, implementation
Let’s be frank. To some degree the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 Reference Template tool is a way for Autodesk to dodge some of the recurring maintenance issues (problems) of the Style Import Tool.
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Put another way – instead of reporting and potentially resolving Style property conflicts between different versions of two Civil 3D object models in two different…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 02, 2017
Tags implementation, Reference Template, template, Civil 3D 2017
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 introduced Reference Templates. The concept of Reference Templates is to finally deliver a way to standardize Civil 3D Style Management a bit more effectively. We can now systematically manage the Styles in your current production template by referencing Civil 3D Styles from other separate Reference Templates. These are included a managed stack…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 19, 2017
Tags Reference Template, template, Style Management, Style, implementation, customization
AutoCAD Civil 3D is stuffed like a platter of Football Playoff Day nachos with an overwhelming number of ways and tools to manipulate our civil engineering and survey data. I’ve said it before. In Civil 3D it pays to ask the question:
“What Do You Watch?
It’s All About that Data Behind.”Happy New Year! Get that mojo workin’. To get more from what we have we must think outside…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2017
Tags deliverables, point group, Point Label Style, annotation, implementation, video