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Our customers asked for More. We delivered.

The latest version of our Symbols Set and Blocks Only Production Solution products just hit the street. The products include much more built in graphic variation. Frankly, we almost doubled the aggregate size of these vital backend content libraries.

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Let’s face it - Surfaces play a huge role in civil engineering and survey work. When I train people in AutoCAD Civil 3D surfaces I almost always get a question that runs something like this,

Is there any way for us to see what changes we’ve made to a Civil 3D Surface?

Quality control is everyone’s problem. Both Survey and Design folks ask this. Whatever you gather in the…

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It’s a bird? It’s a Plane? It’s just Super AutoCAD Civil 3D.

InstantOn Basic 5 and Jump Kit 5 for AutoCAD 2014 and the rest on the Release 5 product line is on the street.

Take Five and Jump Ahead

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In my last post about Questions of Power in AUTOCAD Civil 3D, I tried to point out that our traditional CAD thought processes about AutoCAD Civil 3D don’t always line up with the way the software actually behaves. This is because our thinking processes most often line up with how we used to do things.
The statement above may sound a bit moronic or circular, but it ain’t.…

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If you train a bunch of AutoCAD using folk in AutoCAD Civil 3D you get some common questions. Errr. Actually these questions are usually formed as a statement. For example:

“We make a lot of stuff in our drawings that isn’t Civil 3D stuff. Civil 3D also seems to need lots and lots of Layers too. All these Layers are confusing. We probably don’t need them. Can we do anything about that…

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