Jump On Civil 3D Blog

It's official. As of July 1, 2012, I'm now completely a "Cloud" based company. I have declared myself independent of a local network. local domains, local servers, and all the rest.

This blog and the entire cadpilot site is now hosted up in the "cloud". In fact parts of this site come from multiple cloud service providers, but most people would never know or guess it. That is the whole point,…

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He has an obvious and acquired eye for horseflesh. In his spare time, the man in the hat raises a stud named “Chant” that somehow manages to win the Kentucky Derby from this place out in the middle of nowhere.  There's another famous movie or two you may already know.

Is he Outlaw Whisperer or Horse Whisper?

It’s a rare thing,…

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We're back in the saddle again.

The Chisholm Trail ended in many of the famous towns in that not so long ago Wild West as the railhead moved around a bit. The snake of commerce grows many heads. It strikes, retreats, and recoils regardless sometimes of how and where a man in hat may toil.

The Long Ride Ends Where?

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Feature Styles, Label Styles, and Sets are separate and independent from the Feature Data. This good news. How we want to express or represent stuff in AutoCAD Civil 3D is almost without limit. The bad news is we forget and deal with Civil 3D style like it was a fancy version of old school CAD stuff. We’re human and we are visual. To see it is to believe it.

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Every day people literally from all over the world show up on cadpilot.com and download what we call “The Jump for AutoCAD Civil 3D”.  
A portion of those people purchase InstantOn Basic, our inexpensive templates and styles solution for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Thanks!

Seek and You Shall Find

"Is the Dark Side Stronger?"

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