The NCS Layer Standards rely on the concept and practice of a standard Pattern (Keys and delimiters) coupled with Major and Minor Keys. Every CAD Layer or Level standard employs this basic concept these days. True, we could just employ the unique numeric IDs the software’s actually use, but these aren’t very user friendly. We walked away for good human reasons.
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 15, 2014
Tags standard keys, NCS, CAD Standards, Major Key, Minor Key, naming conventions, Layer Standards, layers
It’s a fact, Jack. You invested money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software. You (or someone else) will have work hard to make the software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably.
Every Civil 3D user and expert will tell you, “You need a Civil 3D template.”
They’re right - sort…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 15, 2013
Tags customization, naming conventions, standards, CAD Stamdards
Last post we splashed down and around the term Bucket to make Civil 3D Features a bit easier to get our heads around. There’s What, How, When, and Model buckets to AutoCAD Civil 3D Features. For all that strange stuff we have really only one chore.
Ripples in the Bucket
Each and every single Feature MUST have a unique name. This is an OOP (Object Oriented Programming)…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 28, 2013
Tags naming conventions, collector, bucket, Name Template, template, placeholder, standards, feature name
The Jump Platform is a rapid Personalization environment for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Quick Personalization is perhaps a not so obvious process benefit of the Jump Platform's "project based development environment".
You can get a picture of why project based development is both an integral part of Civil 3D and why that is critically important to you by reading my recent Civil 3D Implementation…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 23, 2011
Tags template, customization, personization, standards, productivity, naming conventions