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In early October Autodesk officially released a new Subscription benefit for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and 2016 IDS products named the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Transportation Extension. Meant to be coupled with the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Productivity Pack 1 released in early August you’ll get a rasher of new a useful tools added to the Civil 3D Toolbox. No interface changes…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Update, Civil 3D 2016, IDS, reports, tools, plan production tool

The idea behind renting AutoCAD Civil 3D on a short term basis makes sense if you have a project that demands Civil 3D deliverables and you don’t typically produce project work that way.
Civil 3D isn’t the only civil engineering and survey game in town.
Autodesk’s touted free Educational versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D also make learning Civil 3D to improve you career potential possible…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2015, Civil 3D 2016, training

A point is a point is a point. Along came Civil 3D and turned all this simple stuff on its head. The idea was to make the whole point symbols and label thing more useful, less time consuming, and much more flexible. Down came the rain and washed the spider out.

It’s fair to say that most people said, You’ve got to be kidding.

Annotative Madness

Did…

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Autodesk released Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2016 in the final week of September.
As of Saturday Oct 3, the SP1 for AutoCAD had not cascaded or appeared in the Autodesk Application Manager.
App Manager support for new Service Packs and Hot Fixes generally seems to take about a week.

Windows 10 Support

The AutoCAD 2016 Service Pack 1 adds official Autodesk…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Service Pack, AutoCAD 2016, 2016, Civil 3D 2016

We know everything about the mechanics of Surface creation in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Don’t we?

Civil 3D works. Toss in the Points. Pump in the Breaklines. Manufacture a Boundary. Create the Data Shortcut and we’re good to go. You know. It’s the same old Cha Cha Cha.

“Bob? Did you just make us more work?”

A customer asked if I had an end to end walk-through…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  surface, query, DTM, TIN, video