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As a portion of the country recovers from days without power because of Irene here's a simple thought to consider...

Where did your SMH block come from?

When your org adopted Land Desktop the odds are you pretty much tweaked what came out the box. In the old days, DCA/Softdesk actually did a lot of the basic setup work for you. That was important to the software's adoption and…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  block, symbol, Symbol Set, customization

When we initially set out to build the Jump Platform for AutoCAD Civil 3D, we recognized it was going to be a long-term effort.  To meet the demanding real world CAD Standards need of thousands of civil engineering organizations is a daunting task. If you try it even on just your own home turf for basic graphics, you're in for a challenge. Sometimes is seems everyone has to have a DIFFERENT opinion.…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  block, symbol, Blocks Only, Symbol Set, product, customization

AutoCAD Civil 3D template and Civil 3D Style development can be both painful and expensive but it doesn't have to be. Mostly this happens to us because we apply the wrong type of human intelligence to the problem at hand. This is human and understandable.

Ok. You have Civil 3D installed and start to use the Autodesk example "ncs" templates and styles that got installed.…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  performance, customization, template, Style, Style Management

In the Jump Platform's InstantOn products, we intentionally try and keep the use of Expressions in the Styles as small as practically possible. This has to do with a practical Civil 3D Style Maintenance problem NOT the potential usefulness of Expressions in More complex Label Styles.

After all, most of our InstantOn…

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What are thousands of counties, towns, agencies, consultants, civil engineers and their Autodesk Resellers going to do?
Customize AutoCAD Civil 3D from the ground up for each and every one or Personalize AutoCAD Civil 3D based on National Standards?

The WAVE is Coming…  

This is the reason I do this crazy little thing called Jump.

The…  Read more