If you’re an AutoCAD user, you’ve been wrestling with Linetypes since day one. I think we’d all agree that Autodesk hasn’t really done much to improve how this underlying core piece of ACAD technology works for way too long. Have we given up hope of any reprieve?
To Be or Not to Be
No, I’m not ignoring that somewhat improved linetype “plan readability” got added and cleaned up…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2013
Tags linetype, management, standards, layers, layer state
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
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
All the talk of Civil 3D Intersections going around lately got me thinking.
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That’s dangerous - very dangerous.
It’s evidenced by the obscure M-Theory reference in the post title.
Somehow my strange brain connects String Theory to Intersections, Civil 3D Point Styles, Hayek, and an economist named Peltzman. Here’s the why and how.
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 31, 2012
Tags standards, Layer Standards, NCS, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0
They say, “Familiarity breeds Contempt.” It’s an oft studied neuroscience fact that we believe that others around us don’t get it as well as we do.
On the road to work everyone else is a bad driver.
The illusion is one of the most common failures of managers.
Ok. Translate “manager” to human being.I Know Better
This seemingly twisted personal…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 31, 2012
Tags ctb, stb, publiish, publish on demand, implementation, standards, CAD Stamdards