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Is today is the day you decide enough is enough?

AutoCAD Civil 3D may be the best thing invented since sliced bread for civil engineers, surveyors, public works agencies, etc. However, the daily use of Civil 3D can drive you and your fellow users to distraction.

This Is Entertainment?

The software may cause you to “pull your hair out” or as the infamous Direct TV ads now…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  implementation, Style, Style Management, template

The vast majority of Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D are annotative. Mostly these are Label Styles although Table Styles can also help us out significantly as well. These Styles are designed to pump out the Civil 3D data we create in the Civil Features in alpha-numeric or “textual” formats.

When you check out the Label Styles in the Toolspace>>Settings tab you also discover the…

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People ask why we put the “-JS” at the end of our Jump Production Solution Style names. This simple device serves a significant purpose – How do you know the difference between Styles?
AutoCAD Civil 3D doesn’t really care what you name anything, but the odds are it will matter to you pretty quickly.

Coming Attractions

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People organizations and make AutoCAD Civil 3D implementation too big a deal. It isn’t rocket science. Civil 3D is a software tool. It may be a big, new tool, so a bit of caution is probably in order. The fact of the matter is, we actually already know how to do it. We’re engineers.

The Mission Impossible

Houston. We have a problem.” Yes. Barring a miracle, the astronauts…

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 hits the streets.

I don’t know about you, but I’d sure like to have AutoCAD Civil 3D work from Field to Design to Publication right out of the box. The odds are when you set out to meet that MISSION CRITICAL goal you soon discover you’re in for much more work than you ever bargained for.

Civil 3D Is a Diva

By this I mean she can and will deliver an…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  product, customization, implementation