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AutoCAD Civil 3D is stuffed like a platter of Football Playoff Day nachos with an overwhelming number of ways and tools to manipulate our civil engineering and survey data. I’ve said it before. In Civil 3D it pays to ask the question:

“What Do You Watch?
It’s All About that Data Behind.”

Happy New Year! Get that mojo workin’. To get more from what we have we must think outside…

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Certainly our Civil 3D civil engineering and survey projects share a common survey and design language: Keys (Point Keys), Codes (Figure Prefix Names), and therefore typical Survey Query logic.

The Civil 3D Survey Upside Down

We covered some of those Stranger Things last time in Civil 3D Survey Query Essentials post…

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Are we are talking about the latest software changes and improvements to Autodesk Civil 3D today?
No. But there are always some recent product feature updates that come with benefits.

We are talking about Autodesk Civil 3D Features – Alignments, Profiles, Corridors and such. If you prefer, all of that Civil 3D Toolspace stuff. Technically speaking,…

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This is far easier said than done. The genuine issue is what we mean by that curious term - learn. This brings to mind the Goldilocks and the Three Bears metaphor. Do you know this story?

The tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears was once a fearful bedtime morality story from a day when bears regularly could and did come to visit houses. When the bear huffs, you pay attention.…

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The Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D by default employs the concept of project-based resources.
Why? Many civil engineers and surveyors work on projects with different design, survey, and deliverable requirements. Therefore. a project based approached to those specific resources makes the most sense. This is not always the way things are in your local version of Civil 3D Land.

It’s…  Read more