There’s an elegant simplicity to Data Shortcut and Data Reference (DREF) functionality in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Autodesk just built an XML based “website”. We can call it a website because a Data Shortcut is a published link in a simple folder structure. Through that structure of links we are allowed share the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2013
Tags Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, 2012, 2013, 2014, DREF, XREF
The vast majority of Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D are annotative. Mostly these are Label Styles although Table Styles can also help us out significantly as well. These Styles are designed to pump out the Civil 3D data we create in the Civil Features in alpha-numeric or “textual” formats.
When you check out the Label Styles in the Toolspace>>Settings tab you also discover the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2013
Tags customization, implementation, Style, Style Management, settings, lsd, Label Style Defaults, hierarchy
People ask why we put the “-JS” at the end of our Jump Production Solution Style names. This simple device serves a significant purpose – How do you know the difference between Styles?
AutoCAD Civil 3D doesn’t really care what you name anything, but the odds are it will matter to you pretty quickly.Coming Attractions
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 04, 2013
Tags Style, Style Management, 2012, 2013, 2014, Label Style Defaults, implementation, customization
Our old time AutoCAD mindset says,
"If I already made it, it is tough to recreate it. Fix it."
Civil 3D doesn't work that way at all. In this dynamic, model-based, and Style driven world, it’s all about iterations and repetitions.
Turn and Burn
We do the iterations to get better civil Feature data to publish.
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We can also employ repetitions…
Posted by Tench Tilghman Jul 24, 2013
If you train a bunch of AutoCAD using folk in AutoCAD Civil 3D you get some common questions. Errr. Actually these questions are usually formed as a statement. For example:
“We make a lot of stuff in our drawings that isn’t Civil 3D stuff. Civil 3D also seems to need lots and lots of Layers too. All these Layers are confusing. We probably don’t need them. Can we do anything about that…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jun 11, 2013