One of the miracles of modern model-based, Style-managed software is the CAD Standards consistency, flexibility, and adaptive interoperability the innovative use of these technologies can provide to us and our clients. For too many folks in Civil 3D Land, the more immediate problem is to get to and maintain any set of consistent CAD Standards for Civil 3D.
Despite the marketplace sales hype,…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 15, 2019
Tags Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Release 8, Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Update, AddOn
Last time, I went and talked about some dicey nuts and bolts of Civil 3D standards interoperability issues. One way or another we all must deal with these. Autodesk drops the Civil 3D standards interoperability issues bang down on the counter. Here’s your chewy-grounds coffee and a plate of swimming pigs in a blanket delivered by a gum-smacking, white-nailed waitress…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 03, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, Release 7, Layer Standards, layer state, AddOn, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
Each time Autodesk releases a new release or Update of Civil 3D some smart folks decide to give the Framework for Civil 3D a whirl. I can’t say I blame them. When people update the software, they tend to want to improve things about their civil engineering and survey production environment. For good, practical reasons, almost no one initially wants to change everything all at once.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 25, 2019
Tags linetype, Layer Standards, layer state, customization, implementation, project, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8
You have a classic Civil 3D Template that works. You are just about already good to go with a simple TREF implementation using the Reference Template Tool. What’s a TREF? In Civil 3D we know all about and employ XREFs (external reference drawing files), DREFs (Data references to the Civil 3D data behind), and IREFs…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 18, 2019
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Civil 3D 2020, Layer Standards, STB, CTB, TREF, Reference Template, Style Management, template, video
Got Mr Fusion. Are you ready to travel? Did you blow dry this morning?
To quote the Bay Area 80’s jazz funk by Huey Lewis and the News from Back in Time…“All I wanted to do, was play my guitar and sing”
Geez. I hate to admit that I almost bit off more than I could chew this spring. I set out the clean up the humongous Style…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 13, 2019
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Civil 3D 2020, Layer Standards, STB, CTB, TREF, Reference Template, Upgrade, Style Management, video