Everyone needs better and safer places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better Civil 3D sandboxes in our civil engineering and survey organizations. How good is your Civil 3D sandbox?
Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent to learn to employ them. That requires a consistent…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 11, 2019
Tags corridors, Style Library, Style, sandbox, Civil 3D 2020, InstantOn, Jump Kit, video, Project Management
I am on a mission for the adoption of Reference Template (TREF) technology in your working civil engineering and survey projects in Civil 3D. Some could call it a rant. We need to think about the Civil 3D template and Civil 3D Style problems differently. I argue we need new language like the TREF and Target shorthands to talk about the substantive…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 20, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video, Civil 3D 2020, template
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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
Someone asked how can we to get a start employing Reference Templates in our civil engineering and survey projects in Civil 3D. What the heck. We have XREFs and DREFs. What’s not to like about Civil 3D TREFs? I prefer the TREF shorthand. Maybe it could be REFT so as not to confuse the unwary. REFT just looks like someone misspelled LEFT. Not so…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 06, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, implementation, Style Import, Style Purge, Reference Template, TREF, Release 8, Jump Kit, video