Civil 3D ships with a bunch of templates. Historically in Civil 3D, our attention immediately gets drawn to Civil 3D Model Templates. Understandably, we want the pictures on the screen to make sense. Maybe you noticed that most of the Standard Styles don’t do that or maybe just barely. I argued from the get-go that Civil 3D Styles sooner or later become a content commodity. Civil 3D Styles should…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 04, 2019
Tags TREF, project template, sheet set template, CAD Standards, Reference Template, sheet template, standards, video
The Autodesk 2020.1 Updates are now in full swing. The AutoCAD 2020.1 Update was released on the opening day of Autodesk’s 3rd fiscal quarter. We Autodesk end-users sometimes tend to forget that Autodesk is a publicly traded company. The perceptions of shareholders and stock analysts matter. Public Autodesk events happen due to the rules of that game and the vagaries…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 06, 2019
Tags AutoCAD 2020, Update, block, multileader, video, CAD Standards, management, table, tablestyle, project template
For reasons that should be obvious, I get questions all the time about configuring and implementing Civil 3D from customers both small and large. Always happy to help. To get Civil 3D to run is sort of built into the automated Autodesk install. How those install defaults allow the software work are probably not exactly what most people want to employ in a real Civil 3D production environment. You…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 01, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, setup, install, survey, survey db, project template, workspace, profile
Let’s face it. Some Updates to Autodesk Civil 3D are pretty much a no brainer. A new full release of Civil 3D may introduce new unforeseen problems into your project work and workflows. But those incremental Civil 3D Updates often fix important problems in the software.
The recent Civil 3D 2019.3 Update qualifies as one of those important no-brainer Updates.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 23, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Release 7, Release 8, Update, Service Pack, Jump Kit, Templates Only, video, Style Management
Go ask Alice. The Civil 3D installs of resources for the Framework for Civil 3D isn’t difficult. Things thankfully do not change much release to release and update to update. The detail can be confused (or loco or local) as we must roam around in the Windows Sea of Security Screams.
Many others and I call the default AutoCAD install resource paths the Rabbit Hole.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 27, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, install, TREF, DREF, project template, data shortcut, implementation, CAD Standards