Feature Styles, Label Styles, and Sets are separate and independent from the Feature Data. This good news. How we want to express or represent stuff in AutoCAD Civil 3D is almost without limit. The bad news is we forget and deal with Civil 3D style like it was a fancy version of old school CAD stuff. We’re human and we are visual. To see it is to believe it.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 19, 2012
Tags surface, Style, Surface Style, feature line, workflow, implementation, management, Style Management
Our Jump Customers often ask really good questions about tweaking the thousands of Civil 3D Styles we offer.
"Is there a way that you can make the curve label style not show all the 0’s ahead of the degree for the delta of the curve?
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For example, if the delta is 8° 23’ 34”, then it is displaying as 008° 23’ 34”.
My preference would be to not show all the 0’s before the…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 23, 2012
Tags label, Label Style, Text Component Editor, Style, Style Management, line label, curve label
Once in a while I read a post somewhere else that makes me nervous for the folks that read it.
The Being Civil blog is pretty good about not handing out bogus and/or partially incorrect information. No one is perfect. I've done it myself a few times with all the best intentions.Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 15, 2012
Tags bugs, Description Key Set, import, Style Management, management, standards
There's a reason the best players at the highest level of sport turn up at Training Camps to practice fundamentals. It works. These days they don't show up to get into shape. Today, they arrive in shape, because someone wants their roster spot. They still practice funDAmentals. Computer software isn't any different, but you don't have to sweat much to practice and perform.
OOP is Not an… Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 15, 2011
Tags feature, property, OOP, user, training, management, standards
The DTMC (Design Technology Management Conference) from last year evolved into the new and larger Autodesk University Leadership Forum at this year's AU.
A larger More Business focused and Manager's Conference at AU 2011 is high on my list for great expectations.
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The AULF schedule leaves lots of time for the participants to chat things up. Based on the sign ups I've seen, the group of…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 29, 2011
Tags AU, AU2011, Autodesk University, management, Project Management