Whether or not we choose to employ Styleless Data References in our Civil 3Dprojects is a business decision that deserves some careful consideration. There are Civil 3D technical, stability, and project performance reasons to take the time to do so.
For the most part the NoStyles workflow mechanics are mindlessly simple to execute. In the context of most…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 20, 2025
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, implementation, QAQC, project template
We previously discussed the challenges that surround the formal data Dependencies that play an integral role our daily production work inside Autodesk Civil 3D. It is safe to say that we learn to manage Dependencies, or the Dependencies control us.
Put another way – we employ Civil 3D to produce managed projects of data references and those…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 13, 2025
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, Style Management, implementation, QAQC
We are dependent on Autodesk Civil 3D to get our project work done and to execute our work and produce our deliverables. The number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appears to do nothing but increase and become more complex. Dependencies are trending and dependencies also tend to explode.
Software…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 06, 2025
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video
In a recent post we discussed the term Bucket and the important concepts of mini-buckets.
This Bucket speak helps make Autodesk Civil 3D Features a bit easier to understand. We discovered that there are What, How, When, and Model mini-buckets in the Civil 3D Feature Bucket. There are important Where mini-buckets…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2024
Tags alignment, dynamic model, bucket, DREF, Project Management, project template, surface
The daily production mechanics of Autodesk Civil 3D’s interconnected and project-based Dynamic Model are indeed very powerful. These sometimes-convoluted mechanics can be downright overwhelming as well. We aren’t always so clear what that means at the very practical and daily work level.
We are all confronted with a daunting certainty in Civil 3D. The simple…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2024
Tags surface, alignment, parcel, dynamic model, bucket, training, DREF, Project Management