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Everyone builds surfaces. AutoCAD Civil 3D now has some great tools to edit our breaklines which is one of the classic challenges for all who seek to be TIN wizards.

Are You a Tinman?

Today I’m a big fan of Survey Dbs and the Survey technology tools in Civil 3D. The Survey tools allow us to both visualize and manage the surface data gathered in almost any classic form much better…

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Spring inspires me. New life inspires you and me. Even the poets ask,
“Are we like the tulips and the daffodils?”
I can barely repress myself.

“Ma. He got the fever!”

Is it cabin fever? Certainly not. I cannot be snowed in unless the UN is wrong.
I live in California, the land of earthquakes, droughts, and irrational, post-modern, existential…

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I find the fascination and preoccupation with the disappearance Malaysian Airlines flight 370 enlightening and disturbing. It is indeed unsettling that the unexpected is normal in the real world.

This morning there were over 800 million references to the “Malaysian Airlines flight 370” search on Google.
Bing only found 24 million matches. Perhaps at Bing they are more picky…

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For understandable reasons I am often involved in Textstyle and AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Style discussions. A common one is about the simplex.shx font versus the Windows Arial Truetype font specified for use in the National CAD Standard and the ISO specifications. Specifically how that relates to named textstyles employed in AutoCAD Civil 3D templates and AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles.

The debate…

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Autodesk first introduced Survey Queries in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. They improved them some in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 by adding export and import functionality. These days you can employ standardized Survey Queries shared among multiple Survey Dbs.

Me, I’m admittedly a long-time Data Geek. Because I am that I’ve become a CAD, BIM, and…

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