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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 11, 2014
Tags NCS, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, occam
We talked about promoting the NCS (National CAD Standard) Minor Group “VIEW” to an NCS Major Group in a previous post. Ok so I do recognize that appears a bit geeky, but this does affect how much work Civil 3D end users get done and what they do the work for pretty directly.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 21, 2014
Tags alignment, View Features, View, NCS, 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
Don’t you find that the Lineweight property and functionality inside AutoCAD Civil 3D sometimes comes in pretty handy? Many Civil 3d users who are civil engineers, surveyors, and public works staff do.
Lineweight provides you with some instant visual feedback on screen of what the published or plotted output’s going to be. That, of course, assumes you’ve maintained the property.
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Are…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 17, 2013
Tags lineweight, linetype, ncs, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0, lisp, tools
CAD Standards for AutoCAD Civil 3D in public agencies are not and cannot be the same as they were for old CAD based software. All of those CAD applications improved upon hand-drafting, by reduction of the replication of basic drawing work and adding some “design” tools to do that faster. The result: work took fewer the man-hours. We could also be more detailed in less time.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 17, 2013
Tags standards, CAD Stamdards, ncs, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0