Perhaps you noticed? There is a big difference between our Civil 3D model construction drawings and our Civil 3D publication drawings. Are there are some other types and/or stages of Civil 3D drawings in between these two? Civil 3D drawings have states or phases. If we have phases in projects, then our critical path will probably include drawings that change type…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 01, 2024
Tags iPOD, drawing type, dynamic model, Project Management, project template, placeholder, QAQC
Maybe you noticed? There is a big difference between your Civil 3D model building drawings and your Civil 3D publication drawings. Are there are some other types and stages of Civil 3D drawings in between these two? Civil 3D Drawings have states or even phases. If we have phases in projects, then our critical path will probably include drawings that change type…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 10, 2019
Tags iPOD, drawing type, dynamic model, DREF, TREF, IREF, dwf, Project Management, project template, placeholder, template, sheet template, sheet set template, QAQC
I am on a mission for the adoption of Reference Template (TREF) technology in your working civil engineering and survey projects in Civil 3D. Some could call it a rant. We need to think about the Civil 3D template and Civil 3D Style problems differently. I argue we need new language like the TREF and Target shorthands to talk about the substantive…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 20, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video, Civil 3D 2020, template
Smart Civil 3D users in recent releases can assemble together Civil 3D Project Templates, Civil 3D Placeholders, and Civil 3D Reference Templates into a powerful working combination. We don’t want to ignore PTSD – Project Template Structure Defaults.
The intersections of these three technologies produce useful and productive…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 12, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video
Last post we splashed down and around the term Bucket to make Civil 3D Features a bit easier to get our heads around. There’s What, How, When, and Model buckets to AutoCAD Civil 3D Features. For all that strange stuff we have really only one chore.
Ripples in the Bucket
Each and every single Feature MUST have a unique name. This is an OOP (Object Oriented Programming)…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 28, 2013
Tags naming conventions, collector, bucket, Name Template, template, placeholder, standards, feature name