Let’s have a Happy New Year with Civil 3D. Should we wrap up the calendar year 2023 and unwrap a collection of the Top Ten 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 do apply in this context.
This post has a decided Civil 3D management and implementation bias…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 27, 2023
Tags tips, productivity, implementation, project template, TREF, DWF, DREF, Project Management
We all occasionally hear the refrain or claim: “Our projects in Civil 3D are too small to make Data References (DREFs) and Data Shortcuts worth the effort. We manage to get most of our work done in one drawing.”
We can work this way in Autodesk Civil 3D.
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Folks do successfully work without DREFs every day in Civil 3D Land.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 06, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Data Shortcut Manager, Project Management, project template
Autodesk continues the annual Get Ready for Autodesk University barrage of important product updates. For reasons that may, or may not, be obvious to all the folks in Civil 3D Land the updates remain focused on the Autodesk Cloud products. This week’s Autodesk Cloud goody is the latest and greatest Autodesk Desktop Connector 16.5.0.2083 (ADC).
Just…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 04, 2023
Tags Desktop Connector, Project Management, Reference Explorer, Civil 3D, BIM Collaborate Pro
This week the prize for Civil 3D users from Autodesk is the release of the new Autodesk DWG Migration for Docs (DMDA) tool. Maybe the DMDA is a utility? This Civil 3D and AutoCAD whatsit App has been in the works for way too long. Thanks Autodesk. It finally arrived.
The new DMDA will: test and validate all the wonky file and numerous, and notoriously, obscure…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 27, 2023
Tags DWG Migration, Autodesk Docs, BIM Collaborate Pro, DMDA, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, video, Project Management
We all need better, safe places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better Civil 3D Sandboxes in our civil engineering and survey organizations. We should ask, “How good is my Civil 3D Sandbox?”
Our Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent learning to employ those skills.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 20, 2023
Tags sandbox, project template, training, video, Project Management, Jump Kit, Templates Only