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
Civil engineers and surveyors know Autodesk makes powerful civil software tools. Civil 3D is big complex software. We all quickly discover there are lots of moving pieces and tons of intimate details involved. No matter what, we’ve got to get all of that detail straight and working well together into an integrated system if we want a truly productive Civil 3D working environment.
Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 17, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only, Upgrade, video, Reference Template
The development of the Framework Release 7 for Civil 3D 2019 and our Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Styles has been a work in progress all year. We released a host of Release 7 AddOns for Civil 3D 2018-2016 at a rate of about one improvement a month. The latest AddOn includes a Better…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 15, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only, Upgrade, Release 7