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
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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
We talked about the need for out Release 5 AutoCAD linetype resources for AutoCAD Civil 3D last time. We support both NCS 4.0 and NCS 5.0 CAD Standards in our Production Solution products for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.
I’d argue we need to consider what we do with these flexible and adaptive linetypes carefully. Why? How you employ them may significantly…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2013
Tags management, standards, linetype, layers, Layer Standards, layer state
If you’re an AutoCAD user, you’ve been wrestling with Linetypes since day one. I think we’d all agree that Autodesk hasn’t really done much to improve how this underlying core piece of ACAD technology works for way too long. Have we given up hope of any reprieve?
To Be or Not to Be
No, I’m not ignoring that somewhat improved linetype “plan readability” got added and cleaned up…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2013
Tags linetype, management, standards, layers, layer state