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Out here in Civil 3D Land, some folks upgrade on odd releases and some folks upgrade on even releases. There are mythical and magical reasons for these approaches. There are reasonable and somewhat logical business reasons not to employ the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D. There are sometimes reasons to wait for an Autodesk Civil 3D Update 1.

The odd or even is superstition…

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Every couple of years Autodesk commissions a competitive software productivity analysis study about current Autodesk Civil 3D functionality. The moist recent study published in June 2021 compares the use of raw AutoCAD 2020 to Autodesk Civil 3D 2020 in 10 mission critical survey and civil design common workflows.

Autodesk…

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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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Last week Autodesk officially released the new AutoCAD 2020, AutoCAD 2022 LT, and the new AutoCAD 2022 Productivity Toolsets. Er…Well actually, Autodesk already previewed many of the AutoCAD Toolset changes and much more a bit earlier. We all get the point. We are well trained.

You probably already noticed the Autodesk software changes all…

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One thing we know about working with Autodesk Civil 3D for a living - Things in Civil 3D Land are going to change. Upgrades will do it. Updates do it. Now a days maybe Civil 3D Updates do it more. Odds are Civil 3D won’t change in the ways we personally want it to…Civil 3D will change.

As skilled and proactive Civil 3D users change means we need to practice the Art…

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