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

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 introduces the capability of slope-controlled Offset Profile children based on their Offset Alignment parents. The new Civil 3D 2018 function also supports automatic slope transitions between regions within the Offset Profile from the new Offset Parameters tab in the Offset Profile box. People want to know…

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Autodesk says Multiple Dynamic Baselines (MDB) is a new software feature for Civil 3D 2018. Don’t you love that Autodesk acronym anachronism. Civil 3D’s new form of MDB is actually a synergistic capability that results from the combination of classic Corridor Baselines and Regions the other new features and tools…

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We took an initial and considerate peek at some uses for Connected Alignments in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 in an earlier post. The Connected Alignment provides us with the mechanics to create manage the Curb Return interconnections of two Alignments and their Profiles. We get both horizontal and vertical control between Offset Alignments in any two intersecting Alignment…

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The Framework for Civil 3D once again successfully upgrades to the latest AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018. For 10 (ten) Civil 3D releases our products have upgraded without significant issues to the next release. That is an amazing feat. No one else can say that. No one else does that.  That hassle-free…

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