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The Framework for Civil 3D features many powerful and useful Civil 3D Template, Civil 3D Style, and Civil 3D Label Style tools. The Framework happily supports multiple releases of Autodesk Civil 3D. Who knew? The Civil 3D release that floats your boat matters to you. It doesn’t really matter to us and the Framework.

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It is a new year in Civil 3D Land. Civil 3D will change this year. There will be a new Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 Release. That upgrade is due to arrive during the Annual Autodesk Rite of Spring. We’ll see a new AutoCAD 2024 before then. The new software will be delivered with the usual rashers of ease-of-use goodies and promises of…

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How many times in Autodesk Civil 3D do we get a complex civil engineering design or survey dataset right the first time? Almost never. This reality is a most important fact about Civil 3D. To employ Civil 3D constructively in a real-world project-based production environment, we need to plan to fail forward.
What the heck does that mean?

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A long-overdue Autodesk Civil 3D 2022.2 Update hit the street yesterday. The Civil 3D 2022 Update 2 is an important set of new interface improvements, significant performance enhancements, and critical fixes for Civil 3D. This Civil 3D Update makes our lives in Civil 3D better in a lot of ways. Don’t try to employ Civil 3D 2022 without it.

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Autodesk Civil 3D includes many powerful and capable grading tools. We each develop our go to lists of favorites and preferred workflows to follow. Ted is a Feature Lines Only fanatic. Sally is a Site Design Corridor wunderkind. The company design group in Tulsa banned the use of Civil 3D Grading Objects in all projects. We know the drill.

Our preferred…

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