Jump On Civil 3D Blog

Ok. This kind of crap happens to everybody. Get over it. It’s just the way things are. We must accept it.

THAT IS WRONG

Times are tough. Most of us have got to cut and trim the budget. You’d like to do this or that but when it’s not there, You don’t. 15 months ago my wife and daughter cancelled their gym membership in person.

The $39.00 a month was a decent deal. It was…

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Over the last three releases of AutoCAD Civil 3D we’ve seen a major effort by Autodesk put into gravity Pipe Networks and Storm and Sanitary Analysis. That’s paid off in some pretty useful and productive tools. Autodesk put on the gloves for a new boxing match in the 2013 release.

Pipes Under Pressure

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No release of AutoCAD Civil 3D would be complete without some new Surface creation and edit updates. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 is no exception. Surfaces in 2013 deserve a Civil 3D blog post or two of their own. We can be both more indirect or direct about our “data” references in Surface Features. Huh?

Queries About Survey and…  Read more

I ran across this post and video in the MIT News. It is more than interesting for a host of reasons.

"Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures."

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Almost everyone agrees that Corridors are one of Civil 3D’s design strengths. Autodesk continues to push the envelope in the 2013 release of AutoCAD Civil 3D. The Corridor Feature benefits significantly from the new ACAD DWG and tweaked display engine that’s under the hood in Civil 3D 2013.
Take a test Drive and see for yourself. It’s now possible to Drive off-road too. The Drive command…

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