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Our civil engineering and survey projects in Autodesk Civil 3D and other Autodesk apps generally tend to grow larger and more complex with time. Is it just me? Our bottom line requires that we spend some time and attention to regular drawing maintenance as our project timelines grow longer and the project complexity increases.

Hopefully, we learn, practice,…

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Many folks out here in Civil 3D Land have been waiting for the Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.1 Update to arrive. We all hope for better and more stable code to work with. The Civil 3D Update 1 Myth survives. Are you among the civil engineers and surveyors averse to zeros in release number of their daily use production software? You are not alone.

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Here in Civil 3D Land, we strive to deliver more production benefits for our Framework for Civil 3D customers. We also continue to make significant improvements to our Jump Kit for Civil 3D products for the older releases of Autodesk Civil 3D. We don’t charge our Junp Kit customers extra for those significant improvements either.

The Framework…

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There are many things that make all kinds of sense in Autodesk Civil 3D 2023. Maybe you noticed? Some other things – not so much. If we employ the software for a few releases, the familiar AutoCAD and Civil 3D interface mechanics become sensical. These days Autodesk is careful not to change the core daily mechanics too quickly. That tends to make Civil 3D end users unhappy. Autodesk…

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What the heck is an Alignment-based Point Group? What? You’ve never had to document locations on Plan and Profile sheets? There lots of locations (points) we need to label and or symbolize relative to those Autodesk Civil 3D View Frames slapped down along an Alignment. View-based Point Styles and Point Label Styles can help a lot with the automation of our project…

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