Jump On Civil 3D Blog

We all shuffle into the hot month of August. We might call this the month when Mediterranean wheat fields begin to become golden. Call the fields the Golden Ones. The Roman poets and comedians did. When we think about it, August – the golden one - appears to still carry some serious literary, historical, political chops.

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This spring the cadpilot website zoomed past a couple of significant milestones in Civil 3D Land. Silly Me. I hardly noticed. You know the problem. We all suffer from that head down focus thing when we are trying to get the latest project out the door.

“Honey? Wasn’t that our offramp ?”
Dooh.

At the time the current project is/was the

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This week Autodesk announced the official public release of Autodesk Tandem as a product. The new Tandem is all about the Digital Twins. Nah. These Digital Twins have nothing to do with sexy social media influencers hocking yoga pants or those potential Deep Fake videos of the President claiming there’s another Civil War a happenin’ as the Cubans surge the border…

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Here is an important fact that may surprise you: Most of our civil engineering and survey customers already had their own set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Styles when they purchased the Framework for Autodesk Civil 3D. These folks recognize the simple fact that reinventing and maintaining the Civil 3D torture wheel is a significant waste of…

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One of the essentials earmarks of Mother’s Day, besides the almost mandatory flowers, chocolates, and cards things, are the photos. “Honey. You sit over there. Please, smile.” Most Moms appear to want pictures of everything. Which gets me to wondering about how much of the current cloud and disk space is dedicated to digital photos and videos these days. Whatever size we would hazard to guess, you…

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