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Why the heck would we want to employ a standardized set of Styles for Civil 3D? We’re not everybody else. We don’t want to look like everybody else either.

God Forbid

Our Production Solutions products aren’t about looking the same. They are all about exceptional productivity performance in AutoCAD Civil 3D. That’s about…

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We have this thing we call CAD Standards to improve our ability to communicate complex ideas and information to others consistently. When we talk "Standards" this means we are talking about forms of human language and interpretation. This is truly deep stuff. I won't go there. This is this practical post.

Seek and Find the Known Good

We need to take the time to assess if our current…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Style Management, Style Purge, Style Import

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

Tags  color, layer color, plotstyle, CTB, STB, CAD Standards

I get an all too familiar call this week from the principal of a civil and survey firm about our Production Solution products.

“We need a template for AutoCAD Civil 3D that supports National Standards. I don’t get what the difference is between your products?”

I ask if he has a young daughter. The search for some shared context is critical. He does.…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Style, template, Templates Only, implementation, training, video

In the previous post we talked about the National CAD Standard (NCS) and International Standards Organization (ISO) recommendations about font faces in our plan sets. Read the In Font of the Face of Horror post.

In larger projects we also might have multiple CAD apps producing the work. Font…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  textstyle, special characters, font, NCS, linetype, symbol, Symbol Set