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Last time I talked about my father’s service in the defense of the country of Egypt many years ago. It’s a story worth hearing. It perhaps helps somewhat to keep any current crisis in more perspective.

The New Economy?

My father was a good if not great story teller.…

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It’s the end of July. It’s hot. The Guns of August are here. Each July the Tour begins and ends before the August day my father was born. This year was the 100^th time around for the Tour de France. I must watch in respect.

Somewhere squirrelled away in my house is picture of the man who was father. He seated up upon a full sized wheel leading the Macy’s day parade. Pop’s passion…

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Last week Autodesk released AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Service Pack 2 and a Hotfix for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014. NNITO (Not Necessarily In That Order) is pronounced like “Neato” with a slight stutter.

The 2013 Service Pack still doesn’t officially support Windows 8 but you’ll probably be more likely and able to…

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Our old time AutoCAD mindset says,

"If I already made it, it is tough to recreate it. Fix it."

Civil 3D doesn't work that way at all. In this dynamic, model-based, and Style driven world, it’s all about iterations and repetitions.

Turn and Burn

We do the iterations to get better civil Feature data to publish.
We can also employ repetitions…

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Sometimes the obvious is right in front of us. Then again maybe it isn't obvious?

In the old days most civil CAD software included some simple command function to quickly create a grid to superimpose on a site topo plan. In typical AutoCAD Civil 3D fashion this really isn’t a built in function. It doesn’t need to be as we shall see. However, in training I do get the question a lot,

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