The Framework for Civil 3D out of the box supports multiple Layer Standards with adaptive conversion. The NCS 6.0, NCS 6.0 AIA and older NCS 5.0 flavors are supplied for example. Why would anyone want to do that? Everyone one knows one Layer Standard is nasty enough to maintain and employ. The common misconception of a Layer Standard at times sounds something like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 07, 2020
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, layer state, Release 8, Release 7, standard keys, video, customization
Most of us in Civil 3D Land are fans and daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D. We all can guess, based on history and leaks in the Autodesk cistern, that we’ll be seeing the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 any day now. The specifics of the new release may not knock your socks off. Many of us have other concerns at the moment. The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 14, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Revit, AutoCAD 2021, Dynamo, Dynamo Player, Layer Standards, layer state, customization, video
Last time, I went and talked about some dicey nuts and bolts of Civil 3D standards interoperability issues. One way or another we all must deal with these. Autodesk drops the Civil 3D standards interoperability issues bang down on the counter. Here’s your chewy-grounds coffee and a plate of swimming pigs in a blanket delivered by a gum-smacking, white-nailed waitress…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 03, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, Release 7, Layer Standards, layer state, AddOn, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
Each time Autodesk releases a new release or Update of Civil 3D some smart folks decide to give the Framework for Civil 3D a whirl. I can’t say I blame them. When people update the software, they tend to want to improve things about their civil engineering and survey production environment. For good, practical reasons, almost no one initially wants to change everything all at once.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 25, 2019
Tags linetype, Layer Standards, layer state, customization, implementation, project, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8
The Framework for Civil 3D is all about a better managed Civil 3D. We take that work seriously. The Release 7 Framework’s complete managed system fully supports multiple releases of Civil 3D including: Autodesk Civil 3D 2019, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018, and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. If you need them, Release 7 versions…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 25, 2018
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Layer Standards, layer state, spreadsheet, customization, video, NCS 6.0