Our relentless pursuit of a better and more useable AutoCAD Civil 3D continues. The upcoming Release 8 of the Framework for Civil 3D will include NCS 6.0 Layer System compliance built-in. In truth, Release 8 will support multiple variants of the NCS out of the box. This robust, adaptive, and flexible approach to Civil 3D…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 05, 2018
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, ncs 5.0, NCS 6.0, spreadsheet, InstantOn, Jump Kit
We released a new open source list of our Civilized Keys for NCS 6.0. These are specific to the NCS 6.0 release. By popular customer request we included in this new 6.0 list all the AEC Discipline Keys in addition to the traditional Survey and Civil discipline ones supported directly in the Framework for Civil 3D in…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 01, 2018
Tags NCS, NCS 6.0, Layer Standards, standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key
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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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 20, 2018
Tags standards, standard keys, Layer Standards, Layer Manager, Major Key, Minor Key, NCS, NCS 6.0, ncs 5.0