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That is a question. In January Autodesk officially renamed the BIM 360 cloud tool products and integrated those with the existing Autodesk Construction Cloud product offerings. This is a significant change in more than name. That may be more than a bit confusing to many Autodesk customers in Civil 3D Land who were not previously employing the BIM 360 tools. Maybe…

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Autodesk officially released today a new December build of the Autodesk Desktop Connector. Surprise. The Autodesk Desktop Connector 14.5.0.1144 works best with the recent releases of Autodesk Civil 3D 2021.2 and Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5.1 Updates that are currently available.

If you employ Civil 3D with BIM 360…

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The Virtual Autodesk University 2020 event is still on-going. AU 2020 is free. There is no registration fee for AU 2020. You might want to take advantage of the horde of recorded AU 2020 session content that is available. My guess is that Autodesk will tally  over 100,000 event attendees worldwide when AU 2020 is all said and done. That is 10 times the number of…

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What do you get when you Corona virus sequester a bunch of Autodesk Civil 3D and AutoCAD technical geeks who have nothing better to do than talk to the wall?
A barrage of training videos.

Whether this barrage analogy references the Battle of Baghdad back in 2003 or the Battle of Verdun in WWI is a matter of some debate. There is a marked difference between precision delivered artillery…

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Autodesk made some quiet and undocumented changes to the default Corridor properties in the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2021.1 Update. The Civil 3D 2021.1 Update’s new separate Inside and Outside Corridor Bowtie Settings for both Tangent and Arcs corner intersection resolutions. These changes can and do affect the default corner resolution behavior in Corridor Baseline…

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