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The redesign of a long-term public works or civil engineering project is something you probably know all about. Do late nights and hair pulling over the antics of AutoCAD Civil 3D sound familiar? Probably. Our innovative products can and do help.

Time to Make a Change

This website is one of those never-ending project beasts. Yeah. Modern website design specifications…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  website

We briefly touched on new Civil 3D releases, upgrades, service packs, and our projected behavior last time. Maybe I should have said these two posts go together like Whine and Cheese.

Yes, and now there’s already a Hotfix for AutoCAD…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  release, Service Pack, touch, Windows 8

Autodesk released the first Service Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 a couple of weeks ago. I get the usual calls, “Is SP1 ok?” “Is the Service Pack for Civil 3D 2014 good to go?” “Did they fix _____?” Please, fill in your favorite Civil 3D aggravation. Other SPs for C3D…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Service Pack, Upgrade, Update

Don’t you find that the Lineweight property and functionality inside AutoCAD Civil 3D sometimes comes in pretty handy? Many Civil 3d users who are civil engineers, surveyors, and public works staff do.

Lineweight provides you with some instant visual feedback on screen of what the published or plotted output’s going to be. That, of course, assumes you’ve maintained the property.
Are…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  lineweight, linetype, ncs, ncs 4.0, ncs 5.0, lisp, tools

We talked about the need for out Release 5 AutoCAD linetype resources for AutoCAD Civil 3D last time. We support both NCS 4.0 and NCS 5.0 CAD Standards in our Production Solution products for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.

I’d argue we need to consider what we do with these flexible and adaptive linetypes carefully. Why? How you employ them may significantly…

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