Our next release of our Production Solution products is about to go live. We've released a new version of our Open Civil Keys. These include important NCS 5.0+ updates and the NCS Phase and Status Keys with descriptions. The Open Civil Standard Keys are supplied in pdf format. InstantOn and Jump Kit customers get them in spreadsheet form and may…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 22, 2015
Tags Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 5.0, Layer Manager, layer color, layer state, layers
We’ve talked about the development and use of Standard Keys for layers – Layer Standard Keys if you prefer. The management concept of Standard Keys is important to other things in AutoCAD Civil 3D. The Production Solutions employ the same Standard Keys for symbols for example. This significantly reduces daily user confusion; increases…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 29, 2014
Tags standards, standard keys, Layer Standards, Layer Manager
I found the following Layer Management idea for Civil 3D hilarious and functional too. This relates somewhat to our ongoing NCS Standards chat, so here she goes.
Direct From - Deep in the Heart of Texas
(‘cause the theme song always drives you crazy)
A Big Hat CAD manager called me today with a hot tip about how to deal with the too many…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 22, 2014
Tags Layer Standards, management, Layer Manager, filter, layer state, layers, template