All this talk and words about NCS (National CAD Standard) Layer schemes for production and publishing and the complex relationship to AutoCAD Civil 3D View Features and Styles is enough to give me a headache. That reality makes many of us civil engineering and survey people want to ignore the entire boondoggle and go back to the past. Luckily for us we can…
View the Future
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 26, 2014
Tags Style Management, Style, video, layers, Layer Standards
AutoCAD Civil 3D, as model-based software, continues to create new wrinkles that affect how we deal with old AutoCAD management stuff like Layers, Linetypes, Blocks and all the rest. If we try to ignore and treat these fundamental parts in the same old ways, we can make ourselves more work.
A Wrinkle in Time
Simply put – to create, edit, manage, and publish a model is not drawing…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 10, 2014
Tags NCS, Layer Standards, layers, View Features, Style Management, Style
We talked about the need for out Release 5 AutoCAD linetype resources for AutoCAD Civil 3D last time. We support both NCS 4.0 and NCS 5.0 CAD Standards in our Production Solution products for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.
I’d argue we need to consider what we do with these flexible and adaptive linetypes carefully. Why? How you employ them may significantly…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2013
Tags management, standards, linetype, layers, Layer Standards, layer state
All the talk of Civil 3D Intersections going around lately got me thinking.
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That’s dangerous - very dangerous.
It’s evidenced by the obscure M-Theory reference in the post title.
Somehow my strange brain connects String Theory to Intersections, Civil 3D Point Styles, Hayek, and an economist named Peltzman. Here’s the why and how.
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 31, 2012
Tags standards, Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0
A couple of months ago I saw a Bentley software press release that announced that a couple of their civil engineering software products would now include support for the National CAD Standards 4.0. Ooooooo.
I'm rolling around on the floor laughing. Trust me. It's not a pretty sight.
Autodesk Did Not Even Notice
Autodesk didn't have to do anything to respond to this. An Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 09, 2011
Tags NCS, ncs 4.0, CAD Standards, implementation, Layer Standards, DOT, CADOT, Caltrans, FDOT