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
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
The…
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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
Is today is the day you decide enough is enough?
AutoCAD Civil 3D may be the best thing invented since sliced bread for civil engineers, surveyors, public works agencies, etc. However, the daily use of Civil 3D can drive you and your fellow users to distraction.
This Is Entertainment?
The software may cause you to “pull your hair out” or as the infamous Direct TV ads now…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 15, 2014
Tags implementation, Style, Style Management, template
The vast majority of Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D are annotative. Mostly these are Label Styles although Table Styles can also help us out significantly as well. These Styles are designed to pump out the Civil 3D data we create in the Civil Features in alpha-numeric or “textual” formats.
When you check out the Label Styles in the Toolspace>>Settings tab you also discover the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2013
Tags customization, implementation, Style, Style Management, settings, lsd, Label Style Defaults, hierarchy