Jump On Civil 3D Blog

This merry month I performed a rash of training and support for AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey and Surface creation. A recurring theme seems to be

“I know how to do this, but Civil 3D doesn’t do what I expect it to do.”

This wouldn’t be all that weird if the users were new to Civil 3D. We all know by now that AutoCAD Civil 3D isn’t your daddy’s CAD software.

In most cases…

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With the advent of the latest AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Service Pack 2 comes a new set of updates to our Production Solution products for Civil 3D. No one can resist a Christmas present they can open early, can they?

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Our latest product builds supporting C3D 2015 SP2 are now available to our customers.…

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Yup. It’s the middle of December. Once in another lifetime I knew ides was a Latin singular noun. I used to love their plural form of the word which is idus – for middles. Maybe you can guess what modern word comes from this. The Romans thought about and measured time from the middles of things - stuff like months and watches. In our more civilized times we’d find…

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Anyone who trains and helps folks in AutoCAD Civil 3D runs into the “All in one” drawing. In this drawing the user builds the existing surface. The drawing also contains the design alignment and profile data too. Maybe they even get as far as an attempt to build a roadway rehabilitation corridor to repave that city street. Maybe at that point they realize they are stuck. How do they test options…

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What about the Color standards that we employ in our Production Solution products? As usual the question has more to do with publishing than color per se. Old school CAD CTB thinking tends to stick in our heads. CTB think tends to force color into a state of permanency. STB on the other hand liberates how we may employ color in our workflows.Read more