Signing of digiDeal during digiGO D-Day 2025

In the long term, drinking water companies will no longer have to make their own additions to the Dutch CAD Standard (NLCS).

With the new NLCS Drinking Water, signed on October 29th during digiGO D-Day 2025 by the drinking water companies, Evides Waterbedrijf, and digiGO (NLCS Management Committee), a single national standard for design and revision drawings in the drinking water sector will be established.

Read the full press release here (in Dutch).

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NLCS for Drinking Water Project Initiation Document

The proposal is to divide the NLCS for Drinking Water project into a number of components.

  • NLCS Drinking Water: expansion of layer names, symbols and other NLCS-Basic components, so that all assets of drinking water companies can be drawn correctly.
  • NLCS Drinking Water Information Model: definition of the data model for asset registration, so that all assets of drinking water companies can be properly managed.
  • Alignment between NLCS Drinkwater and NLCS Drinkwater Information Model to align asset information and drawings.

A Project Initiation Document was developed in collaboration with digiGO. This document describes the project, including the schedule and budget.

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vdPClassify, vdPCADdesign & vdPGeo for AutoCAD 2026

AutoCAD 2026 has recently been released including the industry-specific toolset for GIS and mapping. Then it’s the time of year again to tune the applications to it.

Using C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins for installing plugins is discouraged and no longer supported by Autodesk. Instead, using C:\Program Files\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins is recommended. This has some but not insurmountable consequences for the development environment and the installers.

Set up a VMware machine and update Windows
Download, install & register AutoCAD Map 2026
Download, install & register Visual Studio 2022
Adjust Visual Studio project settings with references to 2026
vdPClassify2026 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map available
vdPCADdesign2026 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map available
vdPGeo2026 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map available