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Most of us Civil 3D users live mnemonics. Simple groups of letters can and do save us Civil 3D users time and effort. Human beings certainly easily attach meaning to such things. As most parents and grandparents learn many a three-year old knows the McDonald’s logo. LOL. Few toddlers can read.

Brand and symbol mnemonics act like command aliases in an AutoCAD pgp file. They become the roots…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  dwf, iPOD, standards, implementation, Project Management, video

This month Autodesk got around to releasing an update to Design Review and DWG True View for the advent of the new AutoCAD 2018 release applications. A new DWG format in the 2018 release does create some ripples.  

The continued…

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Most folk who are new to Survey in Civil 3D love to hate the Figure Edit engine in Civil 3D. Both the old COGO editor and the new and better Traverse Editor also share this strange virtual lines interface in Civil 3D. Employment is simple. Zoom to Selection skill is what you need to practice. There are lots of posts about those…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  figure, survey, survey db, export, dwf, dwg, video

Are your plan set Sheet Sets taking too dang long to plot? What? You don’t preplot?

Are you still struggling with chasing around those final markups? You know the drill. You fix it. Bob fixes it back. We even do it to ourselves. Do we blame our project benchmark – or our henchmen? Do we just do that again and again?

Life is like Roller Derby?

Time to Whip it. This is controllable…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  project, publish, publish on demand, dwf, base map

Recently, I've gotten a number of requests from people who want help getting their Civil 3D Feature based drawings smacked down to "dumb" AutoCAD and other CAD or GIS formats. This includes the still too common problem of getting your Civil 3D stuff back to LDT.

Think Smart Before You Dumb Down

Before I say anything about Dumb Down to ACAD at all, you need…

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