In Civil 3D, the Reference Template Tool in Civil 3D provides us an improved approach to the consistent delivery of effective, production Civil 3D Templates and Known Good Style collection resources. The Reference Template (TREF) Tool is one excellent reason we employ the term target to help differentiate the various…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 26, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, implementation, TREF
The Civil 3D Template Classic Target methods are the common Civil 3D Template construction and maintenance methodologies used to produce a target of collected Civil 3D Style resources. Many people consider a Civil 3D Template to be their Known Good and perhaps even their Style Management end goal.…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 19, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, settings
Autodesk celebrated Halloween and Election Week in the United States with the release of their latest version of the Autodesk Desktop Connector (ADC). The Autodesk official release date is listed as Oct 30, 2024. Actual downloads of the new release from the public download page were not available until the early days of the first week of November for reasons unknown.
No…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2024
Tags Desktop Connector, ADC, Project Management, Reference Explorer, project, project template, Autodesk Docs
The practice of Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement and the mechanics of Civil 3D Style Import require the thoughtful examination of the tools inside the software and the multiple methods we can employ to assemble and validate Style Collections into well-integrated Civil 3D Template Targets. We want to know how to combine…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 31, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Import
Civil 3D contains numerous details that can come back to bite us when we proactively tackle Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement. We do tend to take for granted the classic AutoCAD Styles. We already know all about that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years.
We believe that…“We already have all of that ACAD stuff covered…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 23, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, block, textstyle, Layer Standards, Spreadsheet Tools