Jump On Civil 3D Blog

Thanksgiving's probably my favorite holiday.

I Love Thanksgiving... I Really Do

I like cooking the meal. I love eating it with a huge crowd of family and friends. I love the leftovers. Maybe I even like the leftovers More than the meal itself since I've been known to cook it twice if my family is gong to someone else's place for the meal.
I like endless big screen football…

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Autodesk released AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 SP1 on Nov 17, 2011.  

A Flash in the Pan Civil 3D SP1 Review

I downloaded and installed it right away. My preliminary research late last week and over the weekend shows this service pack doesn't appear to have fixed everything wrong with the latest version of AutoCAD Civil 3D. Boo Who.
That's never true with continuously developed…

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Are you completely Data Spaced out? 
Could getting to that spacey stuff that's stuck over there really make you day? 
Want to shave light years off your spatial data travel time?
Do you want a lightspeed way to convert…

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As we approach Thanksgiving and Autodesk University 2011 it's good to remember to

Learn From the Tale of the Turkey

The skeptic philosopher Nassim Nicoloas Taleb explores many aspects of our human quandary in his book The Black Swan – The Impact of the HIGHLY IMPROBABLE.
Our current tendency to misapply Gaussian methodology and tools (the bell curve) in…

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The “Jump” as we call it is based on the simple idea we’ve all been pursuing for years.
I think the tenant of model-based design, BIM, or whatever you want call it is:

“Work the Same and Publish on Demand”

This is EASY to wave your hands around and talk about THAT, but more than a bit difficult to execute on in the real world, with live people working…

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