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
I hate the NCS. I love the NCS. We all love and hate the National CAD Standard. We can all appreciate that things created by committee come with a bit of backside. This love/hate dichotomy is perhaps especially true for us civil engineering and survey types who historically hardly had a place at the NCS committee tables in the first place.
At cadpilot.com we’ve certainly done what we can…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman Oct 31, 2014
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…
Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 07, 2014
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0, standard keys
We talked about the many particulars of Civil 3D Label Styles and customization before in this blog. Hey. We jumped on it. Then there’s the obvious we experts seem to overlook.
As Fate would have it someone asks me the other day,“How do I know what all these Civil 3D Label Styles do? There are lots of them!”
There…
Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 07, 2014
Tags style, Label Style, standards, open
We’ve talked about the development and use of Standard Keys for layers – Layer Standard Keys if you prefer. The management concept of Standard Keys is important to other things in AutoCAD Civil 3D. The Production Solutions employ the same Standard Keys for symbols for example. This significantly reduces daily user confusion; increases…
Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 29, 2014
Tags standards, standard keys, Layer Standards, Layer Manager