The end-of-year week always seems to be chock full of work. I do try to tie up all the loose ends and miscellaneous fixes for our products and for clients to start the next year with a higher level of better.
A powerful and complete set of tools and resources like the Framework for Civil 3D contains lots of detail and nuance. All of that detail is required to deliver on…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 31, 2018
Tags ncs 5.0, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, spreadsheet, Release 7, Release 8
The new Release 8 of the Framework for Civil 3D 2019.2 is the Christmas present that delivers better production to civil engineers and surveyors from Autodesk Civil 3D 2019 all year long. The Framework is an adaptive managed system for all the many resources required to create and maintain a Civil 3D production environment. The latest Release 8 Framework is flexible,…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 20, 2018
Tags Release 8, Civil 3D 2019, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only, Upgrade, NCS 6.0, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
Don’ ya know that the funny thing about all Standards is they do change. Hopefully, the change is an improvement for the better. These changes should mean we can get more work out the door with less effort. Ok. Sometimes it seems that the Loki, the Norse god of trickery, calls the standards shots.
Any incremental standards update always means getting our heads around a new form of daily…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 27, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, ncs 5.0, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, DOD, spreadsheet, customization, Release 8
MoreCompetency, Inc released a new and updated open source list of our Civilized Keys for NCS 6.0. These are specific to the NCS 6.0 release. By popular customer request we included in this updated NCS 6.0 list all the AEC Discipline Keys in addition to the traditional Survey and Civil discipline ones supported directly in the Framework for Civil 3D in the past. In other words,…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 15, 2018
Tags NCS, NCS 6.0, Layer Standards, standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, CAD Standards
It’s a new month, a change of season, and for some the apparent loss of reason. Time to transform from the Bake to the Freeze in my part of Civil 3D Land.
Sir? Bake and Freeze? Aren’t those drinking games?
Nah. It’s just my calendar reciting the same old cyclical tale. There’s proof in the lunar or lunatic details or lack thereof.Some do howl at the moon because Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 09, 2018
Tags Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, DOD, spreadsheet, customization, Release 8, Survey Codes, figure prefix db, Description Key Set