Jump On Civil 3D Blog

Each new release of the Jump Platform allows us a chance to improve the details of the Styles and Label Styles included so you don't have to work so hard to get what you need out of AutoCAD Civil 3D in a real world production environment.
With thousands and thousands of Styles and Label Styles available in the Jump Kit product for instant drag and drops…

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Facebook makes its public play. How much do you think the social network is worth? In this post, we'll continue to explore how the personal actions of one unknown man changes history. Our man in the straw hat somehow manages to redefine how we experience the past, the present, and probably our future. Is that what cultural change is?

In our last…

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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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Our Jump Customers often ask really good questions about tweaking the thousands of Civil 3D Styles we offer.

"Is there a way that you can make the curve label style not show all the 0’s ahead of the degree for the delta of the curve? 
For example, if the delta is 8° 23’ 34”, then it is displaying as 008° 23’ 34”. 
My preference would be to not show all the 0’s before the…

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Once in a while I read a post somewhere else that makes me nervous for the folks that read it.
The Being Civil blog is pretty good about not handing out bogus and/or partially incorrect information. No one is perfect. I've done it myself a few times with all the best intentions.

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