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It’s a bird? It’s a Plane? It’s just Super AutoCAD Civil 3D.

InstantOn Basic 5 and Jump Kit 5 for AutoCAD 2014 and the rest on the Release 5 product line is on the street.

Take Five and Jump Ahead

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Release 5, 2014, 2013, 2012, InstantOn

In my last post about Questions of Power in AUTOCAD Civil 3D, I tried to point out that our traditional CAD thought processes about AutoCAD Civil 3D don’t always line up with the way the software actually behaves. This is because our thinking processes most often line up with how we used to do things.
The statement above may sound a bit moronic or circular, but it ain’t.…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  alignment, Style, feature line, feature, Alignment Style

If you train a bunch of AutoCAD using folk in AutoCAD Civil 3D you get some common questions. Errr. Actually these questions are usually formed as a statement. For example:

“We make a lot of stuff in our drawings that isn’t Civil 3D stuff. Civil 3D also seems to need lots and lots of Layers too. All these Layers are confusing. We probably don’t need them. Can we do anything about that…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  publiish, publish on demand, Style, Style Management

“Can your Layers and block names be adjusted quickly to another CAD Standard?”

Step Beyond the Pale

Our Jump Production Solutions are NOT a specific customization of AutoCAD Civil 3D.
We chose to employ the National CAD Standard (NCS) as a basis because of all the hard won experience expressed in those tested standards.  In many respects, we employ…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  customization, Release 5, tools, standard keys, excel, spreadsheet

Because you ask...
Here is the More complete listing of all the numerous and detailed changes and major improvements in Release 5 for both AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013.
You can also find the many Release 5 changes listed in the Jump Platform documentation and on this webpage.  Read more

Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  product, InstantOn, Release 5, detail