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It must be the IDS of April. Autodesk released the 2017 Suite products and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 just in time for tax day. As I recall there’s still another week left on the Autodesk subscription deal. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 includes some things we’ve waited much too long for. Civil 3D 2017’s here to help.

The Dan and Dave Show

On Tuesday, Apr 19,…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Civil 3D 2017, IDS, Upgrade, Release 7

Happy New Autodesk Year! Early this month Autodesk released the latest build of Infraworks 360- the Autodesk Cloud-powered, conceptual civil design engine. My words not theirs.
If you employ beefier versions of IDS 2016, and have Autodesk Subscription your tools in Infraworks 360 (IW360) got better, deeper, and more robust. Autodesk says the Q4 Upgrade to Infraworks 360, is…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Infraworks, IW360, Civil 3D 2016, IDS, video

In early October Autodesk officially released a new Subscription benefit for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and 2016 IDS products named the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Transportation Extension. Meant to be coupled with the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Productivity Pack 1 released in early August you’ll get a rasher of new a useful tools added to the Civil 3D Toolbox. No interface changes…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Update, Civil 3D 2016, IDS, reports, tools, plan production tool

Monday April 13, 2015 - Autodesk announced the official release of the 2016 Design Suite products today.

The Infrastructure Design Suite 2016 product including AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 will be available to Subscription customers for download beginning on April 16, 2015.

Autodesk announced releases of:

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Civil 3D 2016, IDS

Sometimes the obvious is right in front of us. Then again maybe it isn't obvious?

In the old days most civil CAD software included some simple command function to quickly create a grid to superimpose on a site topo plan. In typical AutoCAD Civil 3D fashion this really isn’t a built in function. It doesn’t need to be as we shall see. However, in training I do get the question a lot,

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  alignment, Label Set, grids, Label Style, Style, topo