I flap my lips, wave my hands about, and rant all the time about the importance of the Proactive System Management of the project-based Civil 3D data behind. Yes. This Civil 3D DREF stuff is important. A customer success story surrounding this Civil 3D model magic makes my day.
One Framework for Civil 3D customer, a Civil 3D CAD Manager for a good-sized…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 20, 2021
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template
The Framework for Civil 3D and its products are a Managed System. We take a manufactured or industrial approach to address the many challenges of Autodesk Civil 3D customization. If you prefer, we are Parts Supplier of integrated Civil 3D resources to build diverse, sustainable, and adaptive Civil 3D Standards from.
How can we better support…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 24, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Project Explorer, Profile View, Description Key
Autodesk introduced a new and much improved manage Data References tool in Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.1+. Autodesk also cascaded that same mission-critical code back into the Civil 3D 2019.3+ Updates. If you employ a reasonably current version of Civil 3D, there is better Data Reference (DREF) fix it tool. At the time, Autodesk sort of made a big deal about this. We all know that some…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 22, 2020
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template
Another one of the truly maddening terms in Autodesk Civil 3D is that Reference word. Maybe Reference is not quite as confusing in Civil 3D as the word Point. But Reference appears to come close. We have External References, Data References, file references, and even Reference Templates. I could go on.
For reasons that may…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 15, 2020
Tags reference labels, reference text, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, surface, alignment, profile, Style Management, video
Autodesk made some quiet and undocumented changes to the default Corridor properties in the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2021.1 Update. The Civil 3D 2021.1 Update’s new separate Inside and Outside Corridor Bowtie Settings for both Tangent and Arcs corner intersection resolutions. These changes can and do affect the default corner resolution behavior in Corridor Baseline…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 29, 2020
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, baseline, region, video, design control, feature line, alignment, profile, bowties