Managed symbol graphics in Autodesk Civil 3D can become a challenge. Not because it is particularly hard to do. This is AutoCAD 101 basics afterall. Inside Civil 3D there is an overwhelming amount of this detailed and sometimes project specific annotative detail in modern civil engineering and survey project plan set deliverables.
The Framework for Civil 3D…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 09, 2020
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Symbol Set, Jump Kit, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2021, customization, implementation, publish on demand, iPOD
If we employ Civil 3D, we need to understand there is a tension - a difference between our Preference and Production Performance. We build and maintain our Civil 3D Standards to improve our ability to communicate complex ideas and information to others consistently. We also recognize that there are important collaboration and/or project team considerations at play…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 07, 2019
Tags Style Management, Style, Style Purge, Style Import, Reference Template, publish on demand, CAD Standards, video
My Super Bowl weekend I spent rebuilding my workday computer workstation. Sometimes the painful truth of the perverse nature of inanimate objects slaps you upside the head. We all know the drill. The whine is ready before its time. No drive whine for me. A new fat SSD rocks.
I probably install more versions of a lot of Autodesk apps than most folk. Afterall the Framework for Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 05, 2019
Tags dwf, layers, ULAYERS, plan production tool, project template, video, publish on demand, Release 7, Release 8
These days the Framework for Civil 3D products are STB and CTB agnostic. Civil 3D doesn’t care. Why should the Framework? That was the big deal when Release 7 of the Framework first came out. If we make reasonable concessions to a governing set of Layer Property rules and continue to pay extra careful attention to the details, we can publish in either publishing method.
Because this almost…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 10, 2019
Tags STB, CTB, CAD Standards, publish on demand, implementation, Layer Standards
Too often our AutoCAD tool user perspective tends to get in the way of productive work. Let’s put the issue in frank terms. People think we use AutoCAD to draw pictures. Well, don’t we? But AutoCAD employs data to create pictures. This is something entirely different. Civil 3D employs an even more structured form of data than raw AutoCAD. I like to call this…
The Civil 3D Data Behind
That…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 07, 2018
Tags surface, import, export, workflow, Civil 3D 2019, Infraworks, video, data, publish on demand, iPOD