The practice of Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement and Style Import requires the examination of the tools inside the software and the multiple methods we can employ together to assemble and validate Style Collections into well-integrated Civil 3D Template Targets. We want to know how to combine and improve collected Style Tools to create…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 12, 2022
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, change management, implementation
By all accounts a successful AU 2022 quickly fades into the rear-view mirror of history. Sadly, some Framework for Civil 3D customers in Florida currently do not have a land line phone to answer or even an office to go to. Thankfully, the cell phone scuttlebutt says they are still around to talk about that.
Hmm? Is my old man perspective simply because I…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 05, 2022
Tags AU 2022, Upgrade, Update, compatability, WATT, implementation, CAD Management, Civil 3D
Civil 3D contains numerous Style and Standards details that can come back to bite us even when we proactively tackle Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement. We do tend to take for granted the classic AutoCAD Styles. We already know that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years. We believe that…
“We already have all of that stuff covered…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 22, 2022
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, block, textstyle, Layer Standards
Our work stays the same and the work changes. These facts are certainly true for Civil 3D Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. People mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Those that claim to have conquered this beast…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 20, 2022
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template
How many times in Autodesk Civil 3D do we get a complex civil engineering design or survey dataset right the first time? Almost never. This reality is a most important fact about Civil 3D. To employ Civil 3D constructively in a real-world project-based production environment, we need to plan to fail forward.
What the heck does that mean?Sounds like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2022
Tags iterations, DREF, design control, design state, grading, Multiple Baseline Corridors, DWF, iPOD, Project Management