Our challenge as Civil 3D users and Civil 3D Standards managers is often to proactively discover inventive ways to make the imperfect productive.
The recent AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.2 Update seems to have broken parts of the Attach Reference Template dialog box and Manage Referenced Settings panel functionality.
Whoop-de-do. I do admit…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 07, 2018
Tags CAD Standards, Reference Template, template, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, video, Style Management
I fear that my provocative choice of title here may get this website black-listed as an alt-right or racist conspiracy perpetrator by the nameless and faceless algorithms at Google, Bing, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. As an admitted serial entrepreneur and disruptive small business person the lack of persons personally accountable in that process distresses me, as it should you. That…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 25, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, management, Layer Manager, filter, layer state, layers, template, CAD Standards
There are a formal sets of dualities built into AutoCAD Civil 3D. Whether we perceive or employ these model-based software pairings for our benefit is another matter altogether. Every Civil 3D user struggles with these dualities to one degree or another. Frankly, it’s even a bit difficult to talk about them in Civil 3D without being a bit confusing. You can end up sounding like…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 11, 2018
Tags implementation, training, bucket, Name Template, dynamic model, names, Style Management
Every once in a while a new Framework for Civil 3D customer calls and asks why we put the “- JS” at the end of all the Framework Style names. This simple suffix device serves a very significant purpose and help to answer the first most important question about using and customizing AutoCAD Civil 3D…
“How do you know the difference…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 09, 2018
Tags implementation, training, bucket, Name Template, dynamic model, names, Style Management, Style
It is indeed a Happy New Year for users of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 and the best collection of production C3D templates and C3D Style Tool libraries available- the Framework for Civil 3D. Autodesk released the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.2 Update. Read the post…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 04, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Update, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only