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I’ve been hard at work improving the site access to more helpful and useful information about AutoCAD Civil 3D. The ever-growing and special Members section has a new and free Civil 3D Documentation and Help section where we’ve gathered together some of the Most Important Things to help users get their bang for the buck in Civil 3D. Yeah. There's a reason we host…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Members, training, hot tip

Most folks employ a simple form of codes in the Format column of their Description Keys. There’s no problem with that, but you may be missing some very useful functionality built into AutoCAD Civil 3D’s Description Keys Sets and Label Style power tools. Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the sophisticated. Is it possible that both are possible at the same time?

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Description Key, Description Key Set, Format, spreadsheet

This weekend the staff from my old Autodesk Reseller company got together for a company reunion. What? Sure. Some groups of work friends get together a couple of times a year, but a few decided to put together a bigger deal. The event’s not quite annual, but almost. But on Father’s Day weekend?

Is that Appropriate?

They said, “You betcha.”

Please…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  people skills, people

Could the Management of your customizations of AutoCAD Civil 3D be made any easier? You bet.
We work at improving that process and the tools behind all the time.
We do have a certain demonstrable skill set in these arcane Civil 3D details after all.
Our Production Solution products were/are systematically engineered and built to put the personalization…

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Service Pack 3 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 was released by Autodesk in early June. Sorry. I’ve been kinda like the White Rabbit with the advent of Release 6.

The new SP3 for Civil 3D 2015 fixes some really annoying Export to AutoCAD (or should we say Dumb down to ACAD?) errors. There were some basic surface manipulation problems that occurred in 2015…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Service Pack, Civil 3D 2015, export, surface, survey db, point, figure