Everyone’s been waiting with baited breath for the new Release 6 Production Solution products. The most common question I get is….
“What’s the best product for me?”
Our most popular product is unquestionably Jump Kit. Jump Kit includes everything…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 10, 2015
Tags Release 6, Jump Kit, InstantOn Basic, InstantOn Survey, standards, City Standards
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
Who makes the best set of templates for AutoCAD Civil 3D? Sorry folks, this is a no brainer. We do. There is only one reason for this. It’s what we do. Everyone else does something else and AutoCAD Civil 3D templates and AutoCAD Civil 3D styles are a sideline business. Lots of the time their templates are customized consulting services offerings in disguise. That’s ok, but…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 24, 2015
Tags template, Templates Only, customization, personization, Style, standards, CAD Standards
That is not a pirate movie title. There is a search for buried treasure involved. The search for better standards is never ending. It’s inherently a quest for agreed on meaning. We should say interpreted meaning. Standards are in…
The Eye of the Beholder
The Standards quest is about looking for improved and common ways to work together without the need to change things for the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 03, 2015
Tags color, layer color, Layer Standards, NCS, CAD Standards
What about the Color standards that we employ in our Production Solution products? As usual the question has more to do with publishing than color per se. Old school CAD CTB thinking tends to stick in our heads. CTB think tends to force color into a state of permanency. STB on the other hand liberates how we may employ color in our workflows.Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 02, 2014
Tags color, layer color, plotstyle, CTB, STB, CAD Standards