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Do roadway corridor design in AutoCAD Civil 3D? You know by now that the Edge of Travelled Way is on the critical path to better adaptive and dynamic roadway and intersection design solutions. Register and see the free Civil 3D training videos. Get documentation of the stock Civil 3D subassemblies…

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You are one of those people who gets to build and care for your organization’s template(s) for AutoCAD Civil 3D. You’re a smart and you are a skilled and experienced Civil 3D user. The people around you depend on you for that. The odds are you probably follow this Jump on Civil 3D blog and others like it to keep up when you have the time.
Getting the time is nigh to impossible…

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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

On…

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Is this easy to say, and hard to do? Of course it is. All work worth doing usually is.
That’s why they call the results Competitive Advantage. Competitive advantage is something you make. The Lord knows, it’s easy enough to lose and never, ever get in the first place.

They tell us this technology can help. We know technology can hurt. Oh yeah. Software we depend on…

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We have this thing we call CAD Standards to improve our ability to communicate complex ideas and information to others consistently. When we talk "Standards" this means we are talking about forms of human language and interpretation. This is truly deep stuff. I won't go there. This is this practical post.

Seek and Find the Known Good

We need to take the time to assess if our current…

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