Jump On Civil 3D Blog

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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Autodesk Civil 3D Label Style choice and preference is a bit of a quandary for all of us out here in Civil 3D Land. We do attempt to address that complex Civil 3D management and maintenance challenge in our Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit products. Most customers seem to agree we do a pretty good job. No product is perfect. This can be especially true when we thin…

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The annual Autodesk Right of Spring begins once again.
AutoCAD 2025 and the 2025 Toolsets were released early this week.
There is something new in the recent release of AutoCAD 2025 for almost everyone.

The latest AutoCAD 2025 ships with a huge list of powerful AutoCAD Toolsets that include:

• AutoCAD…

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Our work stays the same and our work changes. This is certainly true for Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. Civil 3D Users mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.

Those that claim to have conquered this beast in Civil…

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