Jump On Civil 3D Blog

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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A recent InstantOn Basic customer stumbled upon an "issue" with AutoCAD Civil 2013.
I thought I'd pass it around and give others the warning and the pretty unacceptable workaround (without pulling your hair out) until Autodesk gets around to fixing it or I find out I'm just stupid and missed the obvious.
Hey. It happens.

The customer had a moderately sized parcel…

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I trust you've been paying attention to Autodesk's drive to the Cloud over the last few months.
Carl Bass, Autodesk's CEO,  recently stated that all Autodesk core applications will have the ability to run from the Cloud within only 2-3 years.

Autodesk 360 is Built In

One of the niffty tricks built into AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 (and all AutoCAD 2013 based products) is the ability…

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It’s a holiday night- a night to party. Trouble is expected in the new Wild Wild West.
Our hero and his young deputy are eating dinner in a restaurant in the center of the town. Outside in the street a crooked Prohibition agent pulls up to the curb in an open roadster. His companion in the car is a lady of the night and a local brothel owner. Yesterday, the marshal…

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The man in the straw hat has already lived well beyond the expectations of any. He continues to serve until he is older than all, and he retires at last to a quiet life of ranching yet again.
Times are a changing. The Great War is raging. Prohibition is exploding, and then - oil is discovered. Liquor and oil build a new raging prairie fire that…

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