Jump On Civil 3D Blog

The Jump on Civil 3D blog is one of the longest running and deepest resources that covers the complex diva that is AutoCAD Civil 3D. The odds are today you may not need the knowledge, skill, and wisdom in this particular post. Search the blog and you shall find. This post is the exception to the rule.

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I get an all too familiar call this week from the principal of a civil and survey firm about our Production Solution products.

“We need a template for AutoCAD Civil 3D that supports National Standards. I don’t get what the difference is between your products?”

I ask if he has a young daughter. The search for some shared context is critical. He does.…

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We have a bunch of new release AutoCAD Civil 3D customers. What are people waiting for?

It’s about time to rehash the essentials of Sheet Set Template customization. Honestly, nothing significant has changed very much since the release of the AutoCAD 2006 products – a nice tweak here and there.

The same inherent madness and Autodesk built-in weirdness remains. (sigh)  Read more

No. I am not going to talk about producing animations in 3Ds Max or concept visualizations in Autodesk Infraworks 2015. True. When I grow up maybe I do want to be a Max Head; wear long, black-leather coats; and produce SyFi flicks and games.
In the meantime, your Plans Sets come first.

If you can’t see the many representations of our mastery of AutoCAD Civil 3D Style,…

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Enough happens to us all. Enough is personal and powerfully social. My month of April was enough.

Enough is experiential like sex, money, and father or mother. This sort of word purposefully means different things. Money doesn’t mean the same thing to a ten-year old as it does to me. Meaning depends on our current context.

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