Our next release of our Production Solution products is about to go live. We've released a new version of our Open Civil Keys. These include important NCS 5.0+ updates and the NCS Phase and Status Keys with descriptions. The Open Civil Standard Keys are supplied in pdf format. InstantOn and Jump Kit customers get them in spreadsheet form and may…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 22, 2015
Tags Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 5.0, Layer Manager, layer color, layer state, layers
These days I do lots of City Standards work. For reasons that are apparent in the marketplace this sometimes involves the Microstation and Autodesk CAD war. There’s often an ESRI flavor of the month added to the shenanigans. I recently posted about the on-going problem of System Lobotomies.
One supposes I get called for this service because I have some extended experience…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 07, 2014
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0, standard keys
Don’t you find that the Lineweight property and functionality inside AutoCAD Civil 3D sometimes comes in pretty handy? Many Civil 3d users who are civil engineers, surveyors, and public works staff do.
Lineweight provides you with some instant visual feedback on screen of what the published or plotted output’s going to be. That, of course, assumes you’ve maintained the property.
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Are…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 17, 2013
Tags lineweight, linetype, ncs, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0, lisp, tools
CAD Standards for AutoCAD Civil 3D in public agencies are not and cannot be the same as they were for old CAD based software. All of those CAD applications improved upon hand-drafting, by reduction of the replication of basic drawing work and adding some “design” tools to do that faster. The result: work took fewer the man-hours. We could also be more detailed in less time.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 17, 2013
Tags standards, CAD Stamdards, ncs, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0
In a post last week I tossed out a basic primer on AutoCAD Civil 3D Figure editing. By the way,
“Thanks for the encouraging emails and comments I’ve received. I’m glad the post helped some folks out.”
Here’s a few other Figure Feature related “issues” that…
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