The Difference is the Jump

What is Jump Station?

Jump Station is MoreCompetency's core Template Solution for AutoCAD Civil 3D.

We refer to it as the Jump Platform

Jump Station 2010 is closely related to the "Autodesk US California Country Kit" for AutoCAD Civil 3D.
The USCA is an optional "Content Pack" on the product DVD.
Autodesk purchased a template collection from MoreCompetency, Inc.
We retain development rights to the Jump Template Collection.

The USCA Country Kit 2010 version is included on the 2010 disk.

The Autodesk never release the 2009 version.

The following questions and answers should help clarify differences for you...

Jump Station Q&A

Ten Reasons you should use Jump Station from cadpilot.com


1. Inexpensive but Definitely not Feeble
 
      o A complete End-to End solution with all the parts and all the functionality you need 
        o Rave Reviews by Autodesk Reseller Application Engineers from all over the US 
        o No one else in the world offers anything comparable

2. Includes 2000+ functional Feature and Label Styles 
        o The in-depth style collections support every Civil 3D feature 
        o All common tasks are well supported by Feature and Label Styles 
        o Multiple templates that are integrated work together 
        o Plots right out of the box 
        o Simply put… makes Civil 3D sing, dance, and play in the band

3. Based on National Published Standards and built to be a standard 
        o National CAD Standard (NCS) compliant 
        o Uniform Drawing Standard compliant 
        o Tri-Service Plotting standard compliant

4. Provides an Platform for the neutral delivery and exchange of entire Civil 3D projects 
        o Submit digital files in Civil 3D without handing over your in-house customization 
        o Great for Government agencies who must deal with lots of consultants and other agencies

5. Reduces your Real Cost of deploying Civil 3D in production 
        o No need to spend thousands of dollars on Style creation 
        o It’s simply easier to Edit than to Create 
        o No complex code to install or pay for

6. Reduces your Training and Implementation Costs 
        o Train and Use Simplicity 
        o Every Feature and every Label Style 
        o Consistent Naming Conventions 
        o Proposed and Existing conditions are built-in 
        o In-depth documentation

7. Reduces your Maintenance Costs 
        o Designed to be maintained 
        o If you follow the simple rules, you projects will migrate quicker and easier

8. Includes a Working Project dataset that can be used for Testing and Training 
        o A real world project dataset is supplied with working drawings 
        o Quick and Easy install and setup 
        o Examples of all key Civil 3D tasks and features 
        o Ready to plot examples

9. Quick and Easy to Customize 
        o Designed from the ground up to be customized 
        o Pick your favorite Styles and go to work

10. Simply put…It makes AutoCAD Civil3D work better, faster, and easier. 
        o Get the Jump

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The Jump is Reviewed

We sent out a version of the The Jump Platform - The Template Solution for Civil 3D (we now call it Jump Station) for evaluation by the toughest audience in North America - the best Autodesk Reseller Civil Application Engineers around.
Some of them consider The Jump the "competition", so what were we thinking?

We know that The Jump is a better place to start even for Civil 3D experts.

We want to thank our reviewers for thier contributions and helpful suggestions that made Jump Station and the Autodesk US California Country Kit even better.

"Obviously, a considerable amount of work has been performed creating these templates... I am shocked at the level of detail included." 
        - Northwest region

"Great work! Looks really good." 
        - West region

"The Jump definately represents an enormous amount of effort in terms of development and documentation. It can be seen that the developer spent a good amount of time establishing an across the board offering of styles. 
        - West region

"Our customers can use this now." 
        - Southwest region

"There is a good Style naming convention" 
        - Northeast region

"The Jump should help customers of all sizes adopt AutoCAD Civil 3D." 
        - Central region

"If I were the State Department of Transportation, I'd look really hard at this (The Jump)." 
        - Central region

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What is Jump Station?

  Get the Jump

  o MoreCompetency's Jump Platform and the basis of our complete Jump Start Services .
  o Jump Station 2010 is the Autodesk USCA Country Kit for 2010 with minor differences based on release cycles. 
  o Affordable and downloadable from cadpilot.com
  o Available for 2009, 2010, and 2011 on or about the official Autodesk release date for AutoCAD Civil 3D
  o Installation is simple, but intentionally manual allowing installation to be customized easily
  o Complete documentation and installation instructions included with the download
  o Free Installation Videos available for multiple Windows Operating Systems
  o Paid access to Video-on Demand Jump Template Customization Training available now
  o Support for Jump Station is only provided by upgrade to the Jump Start Services product

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What is the Autodesk USCA Country Kit for 2010?

Autodesk USCA Country Kit

  o Included on the install DVD for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010
  o Semi-automated install to Civil 3D default locations 
  o Support provided by Autodesk via email for current Subscription customers
  o Support from MoreCompetency with an Upgrade to Jump Start Services
  o Install fixes are available here 
  o Paid Video-on Demand Jump Template Training available now @ cadpilot.com
  o Free training videos based on the included dataset available now @ cadpilot.com 

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What are Jump Start Services?

  Get the Jump

  o Jump Start is our maintenance service product - a low-cost annual fee per site location
  o Supports multiple releases (2008, 2009, and 2010) of Civil 3D
  o Includes The Jump Kits for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 and 2010 
  o Jump Start helps take the headache’s out of new release deployments and project upgrades
  o Includes a deeper set of more detailed and crafted styles for various Civil Features
  o Supplies additional Style functionality on a regular quarterly basis via download
  o Product Update required changes and style fixes as fast as possible
  o Access to video-on-demand training library of hundreds of hours of Civil 3D training
  o Discounts on training materials
  o Discounts on Customization Services

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What’s in the Jump Platform?

  o A functional set of templates that fully support the production use of Civil 3D
  o 2000+ Feature and Label Styles supporting every Feature and Label Style 
  o In-depth documentation even inside the templates and the Styles
  o ByDesign based on national published standards
  o ByDesign built to be quick and easy to customize
  o ByDesign built to reduce the cost of deploying Civil 3D in production
  o ByDesign built to reduce start up training and implementation costs
  o ByDesign built to reduce on-going maintenance costs
  o ByDesign includes a working project dataset

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What is the Free Jump?

Our current Free Jump download is contains a subset of the collection of Styles and Sets available in the core Jump Platform (Jump Station) along with some the "setup and Ready to Run" templates from our InstantOn Basic product.

The Free Jump is a Ready to Run Civil 3D Template Solution.
Only minimal personalization tasks are required to put the Free Jump to work today.
     o Load and Set your custom Linetypes
     o Optionally Load and Set your custom Textstyles
     o Replace the titleblock graphics in the Sheet Set template

The Free Jump does contain and share many of the Jump Platform resource files from our other Template Solutions.

The Free Jump is not a customization platform for the development of Civil 3D templates.

We offer both Jump Station and The Jump Kit that perform the tasks of customization, personalization, and maintenance of Civil 3D templates for your production environment better and faster.

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What are the differences between the USCA Country Kit, Jump Station, and Jump Start?

Autodesk, Inc. or MoreCompetency, Inc. 
    o The Autodesk USCA Country Kit 2010 was built for Autodesk under contract by MoreCompetency, Inc. 
    o Jump Station is what we call the Jump Platform. It is a part of our Complete Template Solution of products delivered in our Jump Start Services product
Installation 
    o The USCA Imperial Country Kit includes an automated install to default locations 
    o Jump Station includes the same basic file set but the install is intentionally manual 

Number of Styles and Style Complexity 
    o All versions were designed to be thinned down as a part of your customization 
    o Therefore customers will find the even the simpliest versions of the templates contain more than enough to meet most of their needs 
    o The Country Kit and Jump Station include Design, Survey, and Simple versions of these working templates. 
    o These include about 2000 Styles/Sets 
    o Simple versions include about 80% of the Styles/Sets in the Complex templates 
    o Jump Start includes about 20% more Styles /Sets in raw count 
    o Jump Start includes more detailed and crafted versions of important Styles, Label Style collections, and various Sets 
    o Jump Start includes quarterly updates and regular new content features as they are developed 
    o Jump Start includes additional files, documentation, instruction, etc to reduce customization, maintenance. Project upgrade, and software upgrade time and expense.
Support 
    o The Country Kit is supported via email to Autodesk only for Subscription customers 
    o Jump Station support is available and via upgrade to Jump Start Services
    o Free live and recorded training webinars are available 
    o Free installation videos are available for Jump Station 
    o Access to Video on demand training is available for: 
        o Essential Customization and Maintenance 
        o Key Civil processes and tasks employing the example dataset 
    o Training Courseware available as released 
    o Jump Start Services include access to on-demand video and live webinar training

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Why is the Jump Different and New?

Our innovative Jump Template Solutions are something new in the marketplace.

All our Jump Template Solutions are a massive departure from the traditional approach to implementing Autodesk software which is to internally "customize" the software from the ground up. This doesn't appear to make sense given the power, depth, and complexity of Autodesk's model-based software. Complete internal customization also no longer appears to make sense practically and financially for many organizations.

Civil Engineers want to do engineering not customize software.

Architects want to design buildings not recreate interfaces.

We constructed a customization platform that organizations of any size can use to more rapidily adopt, implement, and profit from their existing investment AutoCAD Civil 3D modeling software. 

If you have attempted adopt and implement Civil 3D, you understand the need and probably Get the Jump.
You may have even created your own internal customization. If so, you understand the maitenance issues involved. You also understand how difficult it is to recoup your intellectual capital investment. We all face that challenge.

What we "give away" you can't get for any price anywhere in the entire world. We haven't just raised the bar. We are intent on changing the game. Why? Because it just makes more sense.

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A Summary Table of Features and Differences

The following table is out of date as of March 2010. It still contains useful information and will be updated for 2011 release products

Feature

Country Kit

Jump Station

Jump Start

Distributed by Autodesk

X

Supported by Autodesk

Email/Fee

Distributed @ cadpilot.com

Free Login

Paid Login

Supported by cadpilot.com

Site Only

Email/Site

Core Features

2010 Features @ Release

X

X

More

2009 Features and Label Styles

X

X

More

2008 Features and Label Styles

More

2000+ Feature and Label Styles

X

X

More

Consistent Naming Conventions

X

X

X

Quality Assurance Styles

X

X

More

Deeper Label Style Collections

More

Deeper View Style Collections

More

Multiple Working Templates

X

X

More

Plots Proposed Conditions

X

X

X

Plots Existing Conditions

X

X

X

No Settings Templates

X

X

X

Preset Settings Task Templates

Fee

Fee

More

LDT Compliant Blocks

X

X

More

Multiple Layer State Files

X

X

X

Custom Too Palette

X

X

X

Custom Tool Catalog (2010)

X

X

Standards Drawings 2010

X

X

X

Civil Data Storage Template

X

X

X

Civil 3D Project Template

X

X

X

Plan Production Template

X

X

More

Integrated Sheet Set Template

X

X

X

Mono and Color STB Support

X

X

X

Multiple Style Sets for Key Feature

X

X

More

Comprehensive Documentation

X

X

X

In Style and In-Set Documentation

X

X

X

National CAD Standard

X

X

X

Uniform Drawing Standard

X

X

X

Tri-Service/ DOD Plotting Standard

X

X

X

Installation

Automated Default Install

X

Manual Customizable Install

X

X

Free Installation Videos

Useful Info

X

X

Special Features

2010 Intersection Assembly Sets

8

8

More

Support for Partial Intersections

X

X

X

Assemblies Tool Palette

1

1

More

AASHTO Assemblies 2010

X

X

More

Specialized Assemblies and Sets

More

Production Template Prototype

X

X

X

Separated Block and Layer dwgs

X

X

More

Separated Style Drawings

More

Additional Style Collections

More

Description Key Support Files

download

download

download

Support & Training

Project Based Demo Dataset

2009-2010

2009-2010

All Releases

Wish List Changes

Login

Login

More

User Forum

login

Login

Login

Free Live Training Webinars

X

X

More

Free Recorded Webinars

Recent

Recent

More

6 hrs + Customize and Maintain Video Training

Fee

Fee

Included

On-Demand Video Library

Fee

Fee

Included

Quarterly Updates

More

Free Training Courseware

More

Live Webinar Training

Fee

Fee

Discount

Cad Pilot Courseware

Fee

Fee

Discount

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