Style Import and the practice of Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement requires the examination of the tools inside the software and the multiple methods we can employ together to assemble and validate Style collections into well-integrated Civil 3D template targets. We want to know how to combine and improve collected Style Tools to create Civil 3D user production and/or publication…
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Tench Tilghman
May 02, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, change management, implementation
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. You know that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years. We believe that…
“We already have all of that stuff covered in our current CAD Standards.”
And…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 30, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, block, textstyle, Layer Standards
This April has had it’s share of surprises. Folks seem to pay attention when this happens or miss the consequences. Is this April’s theme the politics of the clueless?
Reminds me of that old TV game show Truth or Consequences. Truth or Consequences made Bob Barker, also of The Price is Right fame, a household name long before there was even…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 23, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, Release 7, Update, Upgrade, Jump Kit, Templates Only
The on-going Style Maintenance of our Civil 3D templates is a significant and complex information management problem. There is the raw numbers problem. There are lots of kinds of Civil 3D Feature Styles and Civil 3D Label Styles to manage.
There’s the larger critical path Style problem of the variety of purpose - The need for Style Choice.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 04, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template
The title for this post sounds almost like a car finish product. Go on down to the box store and pick up some Surface Care today. Civil 3D Surface Care is in the aisle next to that beer sold by dem Artesians. You remember the Artesians? Don’t you? Ok. Maybe not. You should.
The Artesian tv spots were the best of the 80’s beer commercials. You have to wonder…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 26, 2019
Tags surface, DREF, landxml, survey landxml, points, COGO points, survey point, video, project template