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DWF-based publication is a powerful and useful publishing methodology in Autodesk Civil 3D. DWF publication is a core AutoCAD publishing functionality. It functions well in Civil 3D projects managed on local machines, networks, and document management cloud-based environments.

Civil 3D users and organizations can thankfully employ DWFs to significantly reduce the complexity…

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This has been an interesting and very painful week in Internet Hell for the cadpilot site. We apologize. We had a series of website problems all week due to bad site DNS data being published by a not-to-be named Internet tech companies. Lucky me to be mashed between two on-coming semis playing technical policy chicken on a two-lane highway on a Saturday night.

This…

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Our mission to keep all the folks on the same page in Autodesk Civil 3D is a painful and never-ending prospect. Some might say this form of endless punishment is justified. The CAD justice warrior might even say the never ending is required and well deserved. Some CAD Managers tend to resort to many forms of trickery and deceit to manage the madness…

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In time for the July 4^th weekend and fireworks you will notice that the cadpilot website is now noticeably quicker. We moved over to new and much improved hardware in an upgraded Cloud server farm. Oh, goody goody. Since the changeover you might click over to a big page with lots of videos and miss the page load because you blinked. It happens to me. Just sayin’.

Enjoy…

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Autodesk released the usual collection of Extensions and Utilities for Autodesk Civil 3D 2023 this week. The Civil 3D Extensions and Toolbox Utilities do tend to make the week prior to Memorial Day weekend interesting. These important tools are something we must wait for each year here in Civil 3D Land.

Of course, the most significant addition…

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