I hate the NCS. I love the NCS. We all love and hate the National CAD Standard. We can all appreciate that things created by committee come with a bit of backside. This love/hate dichotomy is perhaps especially true for us civil engineering and survey types who historically hardly had a place at the NCS committee tables in the first place.
At cadpilot.com we’ve certainly done what we can…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Oct 31, 2014
No. I am not going to talk about producing animations in 3Ds Max or concept visualizations in Autodesk Infraworks 2015. True. When I grow up maybe I do want to be a Max Head; wear long, black-leather coats; and produce SyFi flicks and games.
In the meantime, your Plans Sets come first.If you can’t see the many representations of our mastery of AutoCAD Civil 3D Style,…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 27, 2014
Tags corridors, style, implementation, management, 2015, Civil 3D, video, training
Lots of us must output sections. Sometimes it’s a single section; sometimes that means pages and pages of sections. There’s certainly no doubt that Section View production and specifically Section annotation is one of the more complex tasks in AutoCAD Civil 3D (lots of posts about Civil 3D sections here).
The…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 20, 2014
Tags 2015, Civil 3D, section, Label Style, corridor, annotation, vlog, video
We talked about the many particulars of Civil 3D Label Styles and customization before in this blog. Hey. We jumped on it. Then there’s the obvious we experts seem to overlook.
As Fate would have it someone asks me the other day,“How do I know what all these Civil 3D Label Styles do? There are lots of them!”
There…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 07, 2014
Tags style, Label Style, standards, open
For understandable reasons I am often involved in Textstyle and AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Style discussions. A common one is about the simplex.shx font versus the Windows Arial Truetype font specified for use in the National CAD Standard and the ISO specifications. Specifically how that relates to named textstyles employed in AutoCAD Civil 3D templates and AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles.
The debate…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2014
Tags Style, Style Management, text, Text Component Editor, textstyle