Jump On Civil 3D Blog

I often get variations of questions surrounding Best Fit Alignments and Best Fit Profiles. Both are really useful AutoCAD Civil 3D commands particularly when you have gathered Survey data and must supply something that delivers and documents the real world. One of my favorite questions:

How am I supposed to create a Best Fit Profile?
The command…

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Whoa!  Today was suddenly the last day to confirm on accepted Autodesk University proposals. Where does the time go?
It's already almost the middle of July. We may all be bakin', but
AU 2012 will be here in next to no time. 

You DO still have time (a few days) to submit proposals for AU…

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The Jump Platform has always been about giving you and your organization the REAL freedom to get REAL work done with AutoCAD Civil 3D.
You should be able to do THAT without spending thousands of dollars and months of time "customizing" this already expensive software to get a reasonable plan set out the door.

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It's official. As of July 1, 2012, I'm now completely a "Cloud" based company. I have declared myself independent of a local network. local domains, local servers, and all the rest.

This blog and the entire cadpilot site is now hosted up in the "cloud". In fact parts of this site come from multiple cloud service providers, but most people would never know or guess it. That is the whole point,…

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Lots of companies and organizations are still running Civil 3D 2012 while they await the first clean up of the new release.
Autodesk released perhaps the last Service Pack for 2012 this last Friday June 29, 2012.

Get the latest Service Pack 2 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.

Here's the link:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=20021271&linkID=9240698

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