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Yup. It’s the middle of December. Once in another lifetime I knew ides was a Latin singular noun. I used to love their plural form of the word which is idus – for middles. Maybe you can guess what modern word comes from this. The Romans thought about and measured time from the middles of things - stuff like months and watches. In our more civilized times we’d find…

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Anyone who trains and helps folks in AutoCAD Civil 3D runs into the “All in one” drawing. In this drawing the user builds the existing surface. The drawing also contains the design alignment and profile data too. Maybe they even get as far as an attempt to build a roadway rehabilitation corridor to repave that city street. Maybe at that point they realize they are stuck. How do they test options…

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What about the Color standards that we employ in our Production Solution products? As usual the question has more to do with publishing than color per se. Old school CAD CTB thinking tends to stick in our heads. CTB think tends to force color into a state of permanency. STB on the other hand liberates how we may employ color in our workflows.Read more

Around Thanksgiving in a couple of years previous I’ve posted about the Tale of the Turkey - a philosophical puzzle first posed in this humorous form by Bertrand Russell. The posts are worth a read.

How to Learn From the Turkey

A Helping of Turkey Day

The…

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Are you looking for a great course in beginning AutoCAD Civil 3D? You should try out Jon Michael Roberts’ course Up…

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