NLCS for Drinking Water National Standard.
We’ll make it together!

NLCS is the 2D drawing standard for the civil engineering construction sector. This open standard contains agreements for dealing with metadata, digital drawing, the appearance of the drawing and – especially – the coding system and layer structure of drawings.
For more information see the website of digiGO.

In the spring of 2025, the drinking water companies expressed their ambition to develop the NLCS for Drinking Water standard for design and revision drawings with the sector.

With the aim of sharing asset data more clearly and efficiently with the various chain partners and safeguarding knowledge about this data.

We do this in collaboration with digiGO and their expert, supplier and maintenance committees for NLCS.

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vdPClassify for NLCS

vdPClassify can also be used to convert existing DWG-files with their own layer coding to DWG-files compatible with NLCS (= Dutch CAD-standard). For this purpose, specific data-filters are created and property-filters for the conversion are set up.

During the analysis phase insight is gained into the current layer codings, used line types and block names. After that, a mapping is defined to the relevant NLCS-codes. When the control table is set up, the vdPClassify conversion function converts the existing structure quickly and reliably into an NLCS-structure in the DWG.

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