I’m not sure whether to laugh hysterically or cry uncontrollably. No, my on-going personal trauma is not about the Green New Deal which I think I’ve aptly renamed to HSSPHI -
How to Steal Something and Pretend to Help the Ignorant.HSSPHI is pronounced…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 12, 2019
Tags IYI, View, ViewFrame, named views, standards, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
Let’s face it. Most of the time we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s a habit. For surveyors this means data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files to better manage your survey data behind. You Civil 3D design folks heard that too? For civil engineers this often also means linear design stuff that needs to be annotated.
Is…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 04, 2016
Tags label, line label, curve label, Label Style, Label Set, Label Style Defaults, View, ViewFrame, video
The Plan Production tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D have been around for many releases. They work as advertised, if you have a prepared plan. That implied warning is even built into the name. It follows ViewFrame Groups and their collected Frames are about publication. Some of their features and benefits are pretty restricted by their programmed genetics.
Are ViewFrame…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 18, 2015
Tags deliverables, publish on demand, View Frame, video, plan production tool
I do promise to get back to Layer Standards mechanics and the NCS. CAD Standards can be befuddling mostly because they’re all about boring consistency and repetitive validation. Your brain goes numb. My mind goes numb. I’m not sure if that’s why I’m a numbskull, but this rant is more fun for the moment.
Ages and ages ago when Autodesk first introduced the Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman Jul 24, 2014
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