I intentionally employ the metaphor of the US Constitutional principal of the Separation of Powers to talk about how civil engineers and surveyors need to systematically manage to divide and conquer resources and more inside and around Civil 3D. The Arts of Separation help us all to employ the software successfully in production.
The principals of separation are, as they…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 16, 2020
Tags implementation, Project Management, Style Management, names, Dynamiic Model, change management, XREF, DREF, TREF, CAD Standards
The title for this post sounds like something out of Harry Potter, an epic fantasy, or perhaps a military sci-fi space opera. It’s a mystery. Is The Tuple the newest Marvel action hero blockbuster movie due out for the July 4th 2020 weekend? If so, I want a cut for the title name…
The Rise of The Tuple
What the heck is a Tuple?
You employ tuples…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 14, 2020
Tags Style Management, TREF, Dynamo, template, Reference Template, structure, tuple, implementation, CAD Standards
The best kind of Christmas presents are the things that bring both joy to your life and to your daily work. When you can deliver that blessing to your friends, customers, and even people you don’t know, that can be a wonderful thing. Nothing is comparable to the Good News - the reason for the season. Some smaller things can be great news too. You catch the drift.
A lot of…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 05, 2019
Tags Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2020, AIA, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Upgrade, Update, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Library
Some say Civil 3D creates for us all a struggle between Style management and Style choice.
This statement is a false dichotomy. It’s a straw man argument based on the pretense that more technical control over the details of work correlates to, or is, the same thing as: better management; improved production workflows; and more profitable results.
The One Civil 3D Template…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 14, 2019
Tags Reference Template, TREF, Label Style, Label Set, Style Management, Style, style purge, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019
We’ve discussed the topic of Data References (DREF) in Autodesk Civil 3D and the important Object Model challenges we simply have to deal with in our Civil 3D projects. This DREF chatter spawns a bunch of questions about Civil 3D Surfaces, Surface DREFs, and how to make them work better and faster. The existing and design surface discussion takes a few words and…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 07, 2019
Tags surface, Surface Style, DREF, data shortcuts, data reference, survey db, survey figure, landxml, video, QAQC, surface edit, XML