Jump On Civil 3D Blog

I’m a cosmology geek. I could blame it on hanging out with topological mathematicians in my second round of university, but I’d be lying. It’s far older than that.

It's a Quantum Universe

The universe is being very uncooperative…

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Feature Styles, Label Styles, and Sets are separate and independent from the Feature Data. This good news. How we want to express or represent stuff in AutoCAD Civil 3D is almost without limit. The bad news is we forget and deal with Civil 3D style like it was a fancy version of old school CAD stuff. We’re human and we are visual. To see it is to believe it.

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Every day people literally from all over the world show up on cadpilot.com and download what we call “The Jump for AutoCAD Civil 3D”.  
A portion of those people purchase InstantOn Basic, our inexpensive templates and styles solution for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Thanks!

Seek and You Shall Find

"Is the Dark Side Stronger?"

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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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