Jump On Civil 3D Blog

These days I do lots of City Standards work. For reasons that are apparent in the marketplace this sometimes involves the Microstation and Autodesk CAD war. There’s often an ESRI flavor of the month added to the shenanigans. I recently posted about the on-going problem of System Lobotomies.

One supposes I get called for this service because I have some extended experience…

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The NCS Layer Standards rely on the concept and practice of a standard Pattern (Keys and delimiters) coupled with Major and Minor Keys. Every CAD Layer or Level standard employs this basic concept these days. True, we could just employ the unique numeric IDs the software’s actually use, but these aren’t very user friendly. We walked away for good human reasons.

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For reason that should be obvious, I see a lot of different CAD Standards and a lot of Layer Standards in particular. Folks just call me up and hit me up with NCS questions. People pay me to develop them for them too. Does this make me an expert?. No. You’re the expert at what you do.

Our Production Solution products for AutoCAD Civil 3D have been out there for quite…

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Cadpilot.com underwent major changes in the last couple of months. It wasn't altogether voluntary as recent posts attest. For reasons unknown the front end of our telerik Sitefinity content management system (CMS) simply would not publish on our new hosting server.

System A simply wouldn't work with System B acceptably. Everyone is sympathetic and even apologetic. This is, course...

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Hey. I'm still a GeeK doing technical geek CAD Standards and CAD Implementation stuff at AU 2011 in CAD Management and IT track.

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I like to speak geek too. So do many of you. Implementation is ALL about People. Process, and Structure. How Do You Do That? Want to Share?…

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