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Civil 3D contains numerous details that can come back to bite us when we proactively tackle Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement. We do tend to take for granted the classic AutoCAD Styles. We already know all about that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years.
We believe that…

“We already have all of that ACAD stuff covered…

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Just prior to Autodesk University 2024 in San Deigo this week, Autodesk announced that the mothership is now an official LA 2028 Olympics sponsor. For the Northern California tech company that generates a ton of money from the AEC Industry, the Media and Entertainment crowd, and Manufacturing worldwide so a Design and Make sponsorship makes obvious…

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Sometimes a broken Reference problem in Civil 3D will stare us right in the face and we still miss and/or cannot find and/or see the reason why. Been there. Done that. Got my T shirt. How can this be? Out here in Civil 3D Land every day we use this vital and basic file Reference stuff like our lives depend on it.

If you tell me that the…

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Speaking of word salads…Sometimes we simply have to shake our heads in wonder.

A number of media folks published a rash of recent news articles about the oldest known “English tombstone” found in Jamestown, Virginia. This standing stone is somewhat unique. Archaeologists discovered that the carved black knight’s tombstone was not of North American origin.

The…

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A barrage of Civil pre Autodesk University 2024 Updates and Hotfixes hit the street late last week. Out here in Civil 3D Land it is easy to lose track of one or more of these in the shuffle. We all have project work to get out the door.

Autodesk released the usual set of Civil Object Model updates and fixes that get the older releases of…

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