Someone called this week and asked if the Framework for Civil 3D supports and/or supplies Reference Templates. Good question. In brief, we supply the resources in the latest Framework for Civil 3D 2019 products. Maybe we should produce and AddOn for 2018 products? In any case you have to choose to employ them and do so effectively.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 12, 2018
Tags Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project, CAD Standards, data shortcuts, Reference Template
We say that Civil 3D requires you have a viable working Civil 3D Template (.dwt) that includes a library of Civil 3D Styles when you start a drawing. I might argue that we should consider this dubious advice to be a bit of a deception for the unwary. I certainly don’t want it to be a stone that causes others to stumble. Like the Accuser’s three temptation questions…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 05, 2018
Tags Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project, CAD Standards, data shortcuts
Over time Civil 3D became more flexible about how we can store and manage our project work. That flexibility can make the whole Civil 3D project creation and setup process confusing. Let’s call project creation and the Data Shortcut setup flexible and adaptive and a bit non-intuitive.
The project folder structure you employ is totally up to you. Be aware that project folder structure should…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 03, 2018
Tags data shortcuts, Project Management, DREF, implementation, video, project template, project
Each new project we start in Civil 3D is an opportunity that we either capitalize on or we waste the chance to make the new project better. In my experience a lot of really awesome and skilled Civil 3D folks punt like the German World Cup team. It’s way too easy to be champions who go home early.
We All Do This
We use Civil 3D for a while. We undoubtedly now have a standard…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 28, 2018
Tags project template, project, Project Management, dynamic model, implementation, CAD Standards
There is an important fact surprises many people: Most of our civil engineering and survey customers already had their own set of Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D styles when they adopted the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D. These folk recognize the simple fact that reinventing and maintaining the AutoCAD Civil 3D torture wheel is a significant waste of time, energy, and money. They…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 06, 2017
Tags template, project template, sheet template, sheet set template