Some say Civil 3D creates for us all a struggle between Style management and Style choice.
This statement is a false dichotomy. It’s a straw man argument based on the pretense that more technical control over the details of work correlates to, or is, the same thing as: better management; improved production workflows; and more profitable results.
The One Civil 3D Template…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 14, 2019
Tags Reference Template, TREF, Label Style, Label Set, Style Management, Style, style purge, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019
Boo! Now, we can run Civil 3D projects in the cloud. That’s spooky. The scary news arrives just in time for Halloween. To some folks out there in Civil 3D Land, this event will be a bit unnerving. We’ll get over it.
Autodesk released the latest Civil 3D 2020.2 Update. The focus of Update 2 is Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D with a pointed…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 31, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, BIM 360, Project Management, Upgrade, XREF, IREF, DREF, video, TREF
Whether or not you choose to employ Civil 3D Styleless Data References in your projects is a business decision that deserves careful consideration. There are Civil 3D technical, stability, and project performance reasons to take the time to do so. The NoStyles workflow mechanics are mindlessly simple to execute for the most part. The man-hour investment to perform…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 24, 2019
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, Style Management, implementation, Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2020, QAQC
There are some interesting and recurring questions that are worth thinking about regarding the content of Civil 3D Data Reference (DREF) containers and project stability and performance in Civil 3D.
You should employ, No Styles templates for DREF containers.
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These are drawings that only contain Standard Styles built only by the Civil 3D virus/code.…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 22, 2019
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, Style Management, video, implementation, QAQC
New Civil 3D Updates are a good thing. The Civil 3D code gets more stable and things work better for most Civil 3D users who do the do in Civil 3D Land. Hoorah. We all know by now the newer tools and new features in new tools can sometimes be more problematic. Both the recent Civil 3D 2019.3+ Updates and the CiviI 2020.1+ Updates play par for the course. Lots of good with a few new wonky wonks.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 17, 2019
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, TREF, Reference Template, Drawing Settings, layers, CAD Standards, Object Settings, Style Management, interop