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Great products actually get better and save you more time and effort. They can produce new unexpected, and even more useful results and opportunities. Our AddOn updates to the Production Solution products make a difference.

Our infamous Legends and Lists AddOn for many releases of AutoCAD Civil…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  survey, spreadsheet, customization, implementation, points, AddOn, video

Our Production Solution InstantOn products include our fabulous Layer Standards Spreadsheet Tool. We allow our customers to employ Microsoft Excel (a tool you already know) and a little bit of easy to learn basic AutoCAD skill to produce just about any standardized Layer scheme for their AutoCAD Civil 3D. Yes. It the tool works for AutoCAD Map3D and even raw AutoCAD…

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Someone calls me up the other day with AutoCAD Civil 3D Pipes questions. Mike asks if our Production Solutions products will solve his specific storm drain Pipes labeling problem for his local municipal jurisdiction. That happens to be a major US metro that’s currently under water – literally under water. I’m not laughing at Mike. I’m laughing with him.

“The…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  pipes, Label Style, CAD Standards, City Standards

I’m an avid proponent of the use of AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Dbs. If I need to track and annotate location in its many forms, I use them. We have multiple in-depth video series our Members can watch and learn about how to do that in your own projects. Productive stuff like how to get Survey data related to Alignments.

I’ve said before our old…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  survey db, COGO points, survey point, figure, video

You know the drill. You get a job in a civil engineering and survey firm that hires you because you know AutoCAD Civil 3D. Heck. You passed the official Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D certification exam. In your hire day interview the firm owners even promise to upgrade to the latest release before you start.
That’s great. Opportunity knocks. Congrats.

The Plans of Mice and Men

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