I manage and maintain a huge set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D than I want to remember. Most people see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D public products delivered from this site. Like everyone else who does this sort of thing for a living, I had to learn the hard way to systematically manage a large set of Style collections.
Folks…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 16, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, Style Library
Autodesk released the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.3 Update in the first week of April. This update announcement isn’t an April Fools hoax. This third, and probably final, Update for Civil 3D 2018 basically includes a rasher of interoperability enhancements and many related fix it updates for Civil 3D 2018. A detailed listing from the readme is included below.
The AutoCAD…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 09, 2019
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2018, Batch Save, Release 7, Release 8, Project Management
The on-going Style Maintenance of our Civil 3D templates is a significant and complex information management problem. There is the raw numbers problem. There are lots of kinds of Civil 3D Feature Styles and Civil 3D Label Styles to manage.
There’s the larger critical path Style problem of the variety of purpose - The need for Style Choice.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 04, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template
Smart Civil 3D users in recent releases can assemble together Civil 3D Project Templates, Civil 3D Placeholders, and Civil 3D Reference Templates into a powerful working combination. We don’t want to ignore PTSD – Project Template Structure Defaults.
The intersections of these three technologies produce useful and productive…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 12, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video
What makes me shudder are the rash of upcoming vision metaphors for anything related to 2020. Want to bet Autodesk marketing does it? Can you imagine the 2020 political campaign ads? Want to count the blind leading the blind allegories? If they get us focused on the count, we won’t notice how they play Three Card Monte. Hardly anyone will be able to resist. Eheh.
We are soon to be bombarded…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 07, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Style Management, corridor, feature line, DREF, XREF, Reference Template, project template