The latest and greatest Release 8 of the Framework for Civil 3D for Civil 3D 2018 and Civil 3D 2019 employs Reference Templates in the sample project datasets. Those vital datasets help users identify what Styles looks and behave like. These project-based sandboxes provide and deliver a consistent development environment to tweak and test any of the specifics from the Framework’s huge Civil 3D resource…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 17, 2019
Tags Reference Template, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, CAD Standards, block, Layer Standards
Your organization or firm invested money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software – Civil 3D. You (or someone else) will have work hard to make the Autodesk Civil 3D software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably.
Every Civil 3D expert and most experienced Civil 3D users will tell you, “You need a Civil 3D template.”
They’re…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 15, 2019
Tags standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, customization, implementation, Style Management, Civil 3D 2019
These days the Framework for Civil 3D products are STB and CTB agnostic. Civil 3D doesn’t care. Why should the Framework? That was the big deal when Release 7 of the Framework first came out. If we make reasonable concessions to a governing set of Layer Property rules and continue to pay extra careful attention to the details, we can publish in either publishing method.
Because this almost…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 10, 2019
Tags STB, CTB, CAD Standards, publish on demand, implementation, Layer Standards
The Layer Manager Tool Palette Tool is the most wasteful tool in Civil 3D. The Layer Manager is useful and powerful tool because of what the tool does – Control the many dynamic properties of Layers in AutoCAD-based apps.
The impact of the AutoCAD Layer within the scope of CAD software history is pretty interesting. The named Layer instead of the numbered Level is certainly a big reason…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 08, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, Release 8, Jump Kit, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, video
The end-of-year week always seems to be chock full of work. I do try to tie up all the loose ends and miscellaneous fixes for our products and for clients to start the next year with a higher level of better.
A powerful and complete set of tools and resources like the Framework for Civil 3D contains lots of detail and nuance. All of that detail is required to deliver on…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 31, 2018
Tags ncs 5.0, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, spreadsheet, Release 7, Release 8