Jump On Civil 3D Blog

These days many are justifiably concerned about pandemic plague.
Seriously, do we call this horrific advent the “Red Death”?
It may not be Ebola, but our viral history says the days will happen. Perhaps you already know and acknowledge that your own DNA confirms this. Viro-evolutionary mechanisms are a disturbing and interesting field of study at least to me.

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We boldly make the claim that our Production Solution products are a “Better Standard to Build Standards On”. There’s nothing farfetched about our claims. They are really quite fetching you see. By design we’re committed to making that standard more real in a continuous and substantive way. We’ve been hard at work. In case you missed it:

Early October 2014 releases:

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These days I do lots of City Standards work. For reasons that are apparent in the marketplace this sometimes involves the Microstation and Autodesk CAD war. There’s often an ESRI flavor of the month added to the shenanigans. I recently posted about the on-going problem of System Lobotomies.

One supposes I get called for this service because I have some extended experience…

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Bob Dylan typed these words in 1975 in a suitably tragic song about mystical love, dubious opportunity, and human historical misadventure. This cynical musical association to the song Isis seemed most appropriate to me in the light of the current ISIS (or ISIL) adventure. Dylan…

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There is no such thing as a nonlinear corridor in Civil 3D by definition. Is this then a mythic post?  Are we talking about Corridors of a Third Kind? Not really. In AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 we cannot create Alignments that connect back to themselves like the snake eating its tail or the famous dragon in Chinese myth. We have all seen dog that would chase his tail until exhausted. If you want to build…

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