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
For reason that should be obvious, I see a lot of different CAD Standards and a lot of Layer Standards in particular. Folks just call me up and hit me up with NCS questions. People pay me to develop them for them too. Does this make me an expert?. No. You’re the expert at what you do.
Our Production Solution products for AutoCAD Civil 3D have been out there for quite…
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 11, 2014
Tags NCS, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, occam
“Can your Layers and block names be adjusted quickly to another CAD Standard?”
Step Beyond the Pale
Our Jump Production Solutions are NOT a specific customization of AutoCAD Civil 3D.
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We chose to employ the National CAD Standard (NCS) as a basis because of all the hard won experience expressed in those tested standards. In many respects, we employ…
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 03, 2013
Tags customization, Release 5, tools, standard keys, excel, spreadsheet
When we talk about ripples are we talking about wave functions or particle behavior? This physical quandary led to our modern “quantum” perspective of the physical universe. That new relativity changed how we think about Everything. That changed What and How we do many things…even reading this blog post.
Certainly, the storm surges from storms like Sandy and her topical cousins will continue…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 26, 2013
Tags View Features, Profile View, Section View, Cant View, Superelevation View, alignment, profile, section, standard keys
We had a customer from an eastern state who was from a rather large civil engineering firm with offices all over the place. They tried out the Free Jump in one office and they liked it. As the office CAD Manager candidly put it, "yours (The Jump) beat the heck out of what we've produced internally".
They took the road to the higher standard and rolled out InstantOn Basic 4.Fast… Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 07, 2011
Tags Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 4.0, standards, standard keys