Out here in Civil 3D Land we do civil engineering and survey work. That means that grading and Civil 3D Surfaces play a significant part of our daily workflows. Thankfully, Autodesk has been working hard on improved Civil 3D performance. How we structure our Civil 3D Projects and how we perform some basic Civil 3D Project maintenance work can matter.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 08, 2024
Tags surface, corridor surface, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, performance, Project Management, TIN, Civil 3D
Our work stays the same and our work changes. This is certainly true for Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. Civil 3D Users mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Those that claim to have conquered this beast in Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 01, 2024
Tags Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, TREF
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there is the large, critical path Style problem. There is real user need for Style Choice. Civil 3D Styles have a variety of purpose. There are clearly Styles and Label Styles we need to employ for different purposes. Civil engineering design and survey processes involve creation, edit, QAQC, and an increasing number of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 17, 2024
Tags Style Management, Style, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Civil 3D, Upgrade, Update, property, implementation
Happy New Year! Let’s proactively start the New Year with a talk about some practical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
I manage and maintain an enormous set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D. Most folks see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D products that are delivered from this site. I had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, Style Library, Update
Let’s have a Happy New Year with Civil 3D. Should we wrap up the calendar year 2023 and unwrap a collection of the Top Ten Civil 3D Production Tips? Why not. Everyone loves a top ten list. I used the production word here not the productivity one even though both do apply in this context.
This post has a decided Civil 3D management and implementation bias…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 27, 2023
Tags tips, productivity, implementation, project template, TREF, DWF, DREF, Project Management