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The Point is one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D. Are we talking about COGO points? Survey Points? Point Groups? Point data in a Surface? Points of Intersection in our horizontal, vertical, and cross section control?

This list of different and/or separate meanings for the word Point seems to be a never-ending story.

The mastery of…

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Happy February! What do you know? It’s new fiscal year for Autodesk this month. This means those powers start to roll out upgrades and updates to some code in preparation for the annual Autodesk Rite of Spring. Autodesk kicks things off this year with a pretty significant update to the Autodesk Desktop Connector 17.1.0.16 (ADC).

Autodesk Civil 3D users should…

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The 1964/1965 Ford Mustang was an innovative car. The original Pony Car did many of the things a lot of people wanted in a car at an affordable price. The Mustang became an instant classic. That summer my grandmother’s sons bought her a Chantilly Beige 1964+ convertible for her very special birthday that year.

For Men in Black…

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There are reasonable and somewhat logical business reasons not to employ the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D. The on-going work on our civil engineering and survey projects is a reality.

Out here in Civil 3D Land, some people upgrade only on odd releases and some folks upgrade only on even releases. There are historical,…

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Let’s proactively start off a new year with a chat about some practical and mission critical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.

Around here we build, manage, and maintain an enormous and deep set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Style resources for multiple releases of Civil 3D.

Like everyone else we had to learn the hard way to systematically…

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