The art of production and publication Civil 3D Standards is all about the construction and maintenance of managed, known, and current States. There is no singularity in Civil 3D Standards although such standards can feel like a time-sucking, black hole. After all, we are talking about sets of collections of variable properties.…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 18, 2023
Tags layers, layer state, Layer Manager, CAD Standards, implementation, customization, video, Layer State Manager
A couple of times a year members of the latest NCS steering committee drop me a line or give me a call. Why? I certainly have professionally known some of those folks for a long time. Some obviously even read this blog on occasion.
Clearly, the Framework for Civil 3D (and all its earlier product incarnations) has long advocated the employment of the NCS in the civil engineering…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 20, 2018
Tags standards, standard keys, Layer Standards, Layer Manager, Major Key, Minor Key, NCS, NCS 6.0, ncs 5.0
I fear that my provocative choice of title here may get this website black-listed as an alt-right or racist conspiracy perpetrator by the nameless and faceless algorithms at Google, Bing, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. As an admitted serial entrepreneur and disruptive small business person the lack of persons personally accountable in that process distresses me, as it should you. That…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 25, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, management, Layer Manager, filter, layer state, layers, template, CAD Standards
Does the color of anything in AutoCAD Civil 3D matter? You bet. Color is fascinating if you’re a neuroscience geek like me. Color affects all of us. If you’re personally stuck in the old .CTB mindset to produce work. You must be fixated on it. I could prove that CTB color obsession occupies an inordinate part of your CAD workday. You wouldn’t believe me. STB gives us a lot more liberty to employ…
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Tench Tilghman
Apr 12, 2016
Tags CAD Standards, color, rules, Layer Standards, Layer Manager, layer state, productivity
Our Production Solution InstantOn products include our fabulous Layer Standards Spreadsheet Tool. We allow our customers to employ Microsoft Excel (a tool you already know) and a little bit of easy to learn basic AutoCAD skill to produce just about any standardized Layer scheme for their AutoCAD Civil 3D. Yes. It the tool works for AutoCAD Map3D and even raw AutoCAD…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 14, 2016
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, Layer Manager, spreadsheet, Jump Kit, InstantOn Survey, videio