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It’s a pretty good bet that most people in Civil 3D Land consider Points to be pretty much a survey thing in Civil 3D. It’s an even better bet that these same folks have complaints about Civil 3D’s point display representations, or rather point resolutions. It’s sad but true. Many want and still try and force Civil 3D to behave like older CAD software.…

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The Autodesk marketing people say that everyone wants an Autodesk Civil 3D built their way. This is wishful thinking.

Professional civil engineers and surveyors really want their expensive Autodesk code to work and produce work that is acceptable to them and those that they deliver their work too. If that’s the goal of your Autodesk Civil 3D customizations or improvements,…

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The new Framework for Civil 3D products for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 officially hit the street this week. The latest and greatest Jump Kit Release 8 product for Civil 3D 2026 includes huge libraries of well-crafted, integrated, and system managed Civil 3D content resources.

If we want Autodesk Civil 3D to work better, the…

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For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…

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It would be safe to say that our Framework for Civil 3D products employ and create a lot of the common and more popular standards in the US marketplace for Autodesk Civil 3D. As they say - a large part of success is just surviving and staying around. Focus and practice can also be a good thing. These have a dark side as we shall see.

The people who manage…

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