A CAD Manager for a large civil engineering firm complained to me about the difficulty of change in his organization. That sounds familiar doesn’t it. He wants to employ the Framework. To get his firm principals to see the light is hard. He delivered this oh so quotable moment:
“I sometimes feel like I’m an Indy car mechanic who has to replace tires, not in the pit, but on the racetrack…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 13, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, ncs 5.0, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, DOD, spreadsheet, customization, layer state, layer filter
I fear that my provocative choice of title here may get this website black-listed as an alt-right or racist conspiracy perpetrator by the nameless and faceless algorithms at Google, Bing, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. As an admitted serial entrepreneur and disruptive small business person the lack of persons personally accountable in that process distresses me, as it should you. That…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 25, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, management, Layer Manager, filter, layer state, layers, template, CAD Standards
Autodesk finally got around to much-needed, major improvements in basic AutoCAD functionality to manage and employ both Named Views, the MVIEW command, and XREF layer overrides in all AutoCAD based software with the recent release of the AutoCAD 2018.1 Update.
It’s About Time – Our Time
These new and improved core AutoCAD tools should mean you can produce better…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 01, 2017
Tags AutoCAD 2018, Civil 3D 2018, Update, layout, layers, layer state
People say that Civil 3D is too complicated. I say, “Baloney.” The scientific exploratory facts and conjectures in the post that follows confirm this. We must boldly go where no one has gone before.
People say water is simple. The physicist says,
“Not So Fast”
Late last year the popular press picked up and announced the discovery of a fourth…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 05, 2017
Tags WATT, Style, Style Management, layer state, Layer Standards
There we go. We did it again. We released new Layer Standards Speadsheet Tool AddOns for all our Release 7 Framework for Civil 3D customers. Ok. The tool also technically also works for all of our Release 6 Framework products too. We simply cannot resist helping out our customers when they ask.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 27, 2016
Tags Layer Standards, layer state, spreadsheet, tools, CAD Standards, NCS, AddOn, video