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It is now less than 30 days until Autodesk University 2024 (AU 2024) starts on Oct 14, 2024. Of course, the official AU 2024 event dates are October 15-17 in San Diego, CA. Everyone knows that the most fun day is that busy Monday before AU starts. It’s the day for quiet (or not so quiet) meetings with friends both old and new. Eheh.

I somehow always manage…

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Autodesk released a huge new and improved Dynamo for Civil inside the recent Civil 3D 2025.1 Update. The new Dynamo supports the latest Dynamo 3.2.2 core and includes over 1100 new and/or improved Dynamo nodes for many things AutoCAD and Civil 3D.

The new and long-awaited Dynamo for Civil 3D 2025.1 Update is certainly the…

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Autodesk released the Autodesk Content Catalog Extensions for Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D in late August without much marketing fanfare or hoopla. The Content Catalog Extensions help us manage and maintain our drawing model content and standards for the supported software in the Autodesk Docs and Autodesk…

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Out here in Civil 3D Land it is full bake summer. It is hot and sweaty. Just like my terror dogs, I find myself wanting to lay down on the cool floor and maybe nap and doze most of the day. No rest for the wicked. In this heat, I gotta rise up earlier to walk my daily constitutional. I certainly have less company out  there. Hardly a soul in sight at the crack of dawn.

This…

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Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of immediate and published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Can we call this lust the One and Done? For surveyors this may mean Point data from Survey Dbs. I trust we have all moved beyond imported point files and drawing-centric COGO points? The Lord…

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