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
We all occasionally hear the refrain or claim: “Our projects in Civil 3D are too small to make Data References (DREFs) and Data Shortcuts worth the effort. We manage to get most of our work done in one drawing.”
We can work this way in Autodesk Civil 3D.
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Folks do successfully work without DREFs every day in Civil 3D Land.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 06, 2023
Tags DREF, XREF, IREF, Data Shortcut Manager, Project Management, project template
We all need better, safe 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. We should ask, “How good is my Civil 3D Sandbox?”
Our Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent learning to employ those skills.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 20, 2023
Tags sandbox, project template, training, video, Project Management, Jump Kit, Templates Only
What the heck is a Civil 3D Implementation Project? An Implementation Project sounds like a term that an expert might make up to sell us something. OK. I get that. What if we rename it to Our Civil 3D Project That Works? We must admit that we need our Civil 3D projects to work. Civil 3D projects quickly get personal too.
The personal aspect…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 01, 2023
Tags Project Management, project template, customization, Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D
There are three distinct and key process concepts in model-based design. Our iteratively built model and the managed data behind on which that model depends on allows us to produce the published results that we will require in our deliverables. It is vital to note and never skip over the fact that there are rules, systems,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 22, 2023
Tags Project Explorer, Grading Optimization, project template, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, Project Management