The new Framework for Civil 3D 2024 products officially hit the street this week. The latest Jump Kit Release 8 and Templates Only Release 8 products for Civil 3D 2024 include huge new libraries of well-crafted, integrated, and system managed Civil 3D content resources. The new Framework for Civil 3D is great news if we want Autodesk Civil 3D to…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 31, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2024, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Update, NCS 6.0, video, template, Reference Template
Most of us who employ Autodesk Civil 3D in production environments are familiar with the mechanics to replace External References (XREF) in our working and/or publication drawings. The Survey dept updates the existing annotation for the proposed project’s Parcel map. Survey may overwrite the previously shared XREF drawing. They may provide a separate and differently…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 15, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Behind, data reference, data shortcut, video, DWF, iPOD
The recent Autodesk Civil 3D 2023.2.1 Update is generally all about a Civil 3D implementation of the latest and greatest Autodesk Desktop Connector 16.0.0.1902 Update. This latest Civil 3D Update does include some other fixes to some annoying Civil 3D 2023.2 Update issues even if we do not choose to employ the Autodesk Cloud Collaboration capabilities…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 07, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Update, Upgrade, Desktop Connector, Reference Explorer, Data Shortcut Manager, video, Collaboration, Construction Cloud, Drive
The Reference Template Tool in Civil 3D employs provides us a different approach to the consistent delivery of effective, production Civil 3D Templates and Known Good Style collection resources. The Reference Template (TREF) Tool allows us to assemble Civil 3D resource targets, partially manage them, and deliver standardized resource…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 16, 2022
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, implementation
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 09, 2022
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, settings