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Last post we talked about basic tracking tools like User accountability, Autodesk Design Review, and employment of the Feature Description fields in AutoCAD Civil 3D and how they apply to QA tracking. Here’s how to employ AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO Point Features for QA/QC and fix tracking.

This works well in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013+. In older releases…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  QA, QC, points, Point Style, survey db, surface, track, survey, figures

Lots of Survey and civil engineering design firms love our  InstantOn Basic and Jump Kit products because they reduce for them lots of the upfront work it takes to get AutoCAD Civil 3D producing real work in many releases. The Survey functionality inside C3D and IOB has vastly improved in the last couple of releases. The “I like IOB” by Survey folks always leads to questions…

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In the previous post we talked about some basic issues with Corridor annotation if we rely on Surface Features to generate the annotation. I even proposed a new Surface Group Label that referenced all forms of horizontal control.

In early AutoCAD…

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For reasons that I trust are pretty obvious to all by now, I routinely get lots of questions about AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Styles and their "strange" behaviors.

Not so simple Symbols

The Choices of Confusion

Inside Civil 3D we…

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Some of our Jump customers have requested More in-depth support for additional NCS compliant utlities and other common roadway and site features. This isn't rocket science, but reducing the tedium, cleanup, and CAD Standards issues for AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD is what we do. We mean it when we say The Jump is...

"A Higher Standard to Build On"

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Our recently…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  block, symbol, Symbol Set, Blocks Only, points, Description Key Set