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I first heard the famous Buffalo Springfield and Stephen Stills tune For What It’s Worth performed live in Feb in 1967 in Santa Barbara, CA. I remember paying $3.00 or maybe $3.50 to see the show. Big bucks. I had to talk my parents into dropping me off and picking me up. I couldn’t drive yet. Why…

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Systematically managed blocks and symbols can make our Civil 3D Standards more flexible and adaptive to the ever-changing demands of our customers. These simple AutoCAD graphics have a significant impact on our daily civil engineering and survey project work. Case in point - If we change the block representations in a project drawing by redefining all the block…

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It’s only human to wonder if we can make a difference in this world.
Is “You matter” a vague humanist philosophical ideal that everyone must strive for?
Could “You matter” be something the sincere elementary school teacher tells all their students?

Is “You matter” the modern participation trophy?
The phrase often appears to be the core concept behind…

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Most of us in Civil 3D Land who are paid to oversee and manage our working environments are cognizant of the annual ritual that is the Autodesk Rite of Spring. We pay some attention to those Autodesk backend updates that will continue to trickle out until AutoCAD 2027, the AutoCAD Map 2027 Toolset, and Autodesk Civil 3D 2027 hit…

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The Point is one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D. Are we talking about COGO points? Survey Points? Point Groups? Point data in a Surface? Points of Intersection in our horizontal, vertical, and cross section control?

This list of different and/or separate meanings for the word Point seems to be a never-ending story.

The mastery of…

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