That is not a pirate movie title. There is a search for buried treasure involved. The search for better standards is never ending. It’s inherently a quest for agreed on meaning. We should say interpreted meaning. Standards are in…
The Eye of the Beholder
The Standards quest is about looking for improved and common ways to work together without the need to change things for the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 03, 2015
Tags color, layer color, Layer Standards, NCS, CAD Standards
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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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 07, 2014
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0, standard keys
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
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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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 15, 2014
Tags standard keys, NCS, CAD Standards, Major Key, Minor Key, naming conventions, Layer Standards, layers