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Are we are talking about the latest software changes and improvements to Autodesk Civil 3D today?
No. But there are always some recent product feature updates that come with benefits.

We are talking about Autodesk Civil 3D Features – Alignments, Profiles, Corridors and such. If you prefer, all of that Civil 3D Toolspace stuff. Technically speaking,…

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There is always some fear and loathing for writers associated with a post about newly introduced feature in the latest AutoCAD Civil 3D. New product features do tend to arrive as a work in progress. Autodesk often introduces something new with little real documentation. This allows them to change the officially undocumented behavior of the new feature in the next Service Pack. Yep. There’s a reason…

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The malady is a silent killer of AutoCAD Civil 3D user productivity everywhere. It ignores class, size, and significance. It cares not a whit about reputation, our level of expertise, or our years of professional experience. It’s invisible and pernicious like malnutrition. We must acknowledge that Style Starvation is crisis of what’s not there. A new form of technical scurvy, Style…

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We recently made it official that the Release 6 Framework for Civil 3D upgrades and runs well in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I know Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D Styles that actually work and upgrade real world in production environments are shocking but true. Back at the shack, we are banging away at a more powerful, more useful, and more productive Release 7. We’re getting…

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What did Autodesk do in the latest Civil 3D release? Good stuff? Bad stuff? Useless stuff? What do you think?

Civil 3D users cannot count on the potential reality that Autodesk will change their software into what any Civil 3D user wants. No one really expects that. We all hope they will. Users do not choose what Autodesk decides to build and/or fix either in spite of expensive marketing…

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