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Heck. No.
Linetypes work. Hardly anyone needs to mess with linetypes anymore. They are available standard linetypes for almost everything in every CAD discipline. With some adjustment they even work across multiple drafting disciplines. What do you mean by linetype style anyway?

Autodesk, please don’t change what works.

Heck. Yes.
The…

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I’m happy to testify that I did Windows 10 on all my Windows computers right away. Nothing to wait for. Sure I tested all my Autodesk apps and they ran fine in Windows 10 prerelease versions. Yes. I use more than one computer and more than one operating system too. Silly me. It’s a geek thing. Someone has to do it. Better me than you.

Be Thankful

It is that time of year.

Truthfully,…

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Below is one of my favorite quotes about modern model-based software. It came to me from one of my training and support staff back in the day. It’s worth thinking about.

“If civil engineering was easy, anyone could do it. Thank God it isn’t or we’d all starve. Software tools can make many production things faster, but faster doesn’t always make for better…

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One of the most frequent ways organizations become a new Production Solutions customer is because they hire someone who already employs our products. These people can often demonstrate more AutoCAD Civil 3D skill and in-depth understanding of the capabilities of the Autodesk product.

“Fred? How is it that you seem to get so much work done so much faster in Civil…  Read more

It’s been over a month since Autodesk released Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2016.

This AutoCAD service pack applies to all AutoCAD based products. That includes AutoCAD Map 3D 2016, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and Infrastructure Design Suite 2016.

Back in Time

Perhaps this event marks a return to the days of Autodesk…

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