We all learn about those nasty CAD Standards. We believe we get them down pat. Next thing we know, they come back and bite us at the most uncomfortable times.
“We cannot see the degree symbols (°) in labels in the survey parcel drawings.”
How does that happen?
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Everyone who uses AutoCAD knows that we just…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 18, 2026
Tags CAD Standards, font, text, definitions, NCS, NCS 6.0, NCS 7.0, ISO, special characters, ttf, shx
What goes around comes around. For reasons that are a mystery I’ve recently received a bunch of questions about the Export of Civil 3D project stuff in digital deliverable form. In other words, the folks want to publish digital copies of the Civil 3D data behind in their projects without the Civil 3D objects themselves.
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“We want the results only” – whatever that…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2018
Tags iPOD, font, NCS, ISO, conversion, export, DGN, text, textstyle, special characters
I hate the NCS. I love the NCS. We all love and hate the National CAD Standard. We can all appreciate that things created by committee come with a bit of backside. This love/hate dichotomy is perhaps especially true for us civil engineering and survey types who historically hardly had a place at the NCS committee tables in the first place.
At cadpilot.com we’ve certainly done what we can…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Oct 31, 2014