Jump On Civil 3D Blog

I find the fascination and preoccupation with the disappearance Malaysian Airlines flight 370 enlightening and disturbing. It is indeed unsettling that the unexpected is normal in the real world.

This morning there were over 800 million references to the “Malaysian Airlines flight 370” search on Google.
Bing only found 24 million matches. Perhaps at Bing they are more picky…

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For understandable reasons I am often involved in Textstyle and AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Style discussions. A common one is about the simplex.shx font versus the Windows Arial Truetype font specified for use in the National CAD Standard and the ISO specifications. Specifically how that relates to named textstyles employed in AutoCAD Civil 3D templates and AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles.

The debate…

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Autodesk first introduced Survey Queries in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. They improved them some in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 by adding export and import functionality. These days you can employ standardized Survey Queries shared among multiple Survey Dbs.

Me, I’m admittedly a long-time Data Geek. Because I am that I’ve become a CAD, BIM, and…

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Perhaps you noticed that the cadpilot was down for a day this week. Sorry about that. Our hosting provider moved the site to an upgraded server with more of everything for hardware and a current, state-of-the-art backend -Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, et. al.
Well almost state of the art…
Microsoft announced the new SQL Server 2014 was released to manufacturing the same day…

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Videos are all the rage. This site has hours and hours of them on the Civil 3D Video recordings page.
I do post a few to YouTube now and then.  Truthfully, you’re better off coming here where you can both the eye candy and the beef about AutoCAD Civil 3D.
They tell me that I should probably post more on YouTube…

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