Jump On Civil 3D Blog

We all occasionally hear the refrain or claim: “Our projects in Civil 3D are too small to make Data References (DREFs) and Data Shortcuts worth the effort. We manage to get most of our work done in one drawing.”

We can work this way in Autodesk Civil 3D.
Folks do successfully work without DREFs every day in Civil 3D Land.
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Funny. People almost never call and ask if their Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Standards have reached their end of life. Should our Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and other Civil 3D resources have an expiration date? Do we expect the latest Civil 3D Release Upgrade or Civil 3D Update will make the call on the field?

Wonder of wonders.…

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Earlier this week we released the latest Framework for Civil 3D 2024.2 product Updates. This is an important maintenance build Update for the Jump Kit 8 2024 and Templates Only 8 2024 products.

Framework for Civil 3D 2024 product customers may download the latest builds of the Jump Kit and Templates…

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We all need better, safe places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better Civil 3D Sandboxes in our civil engineering and survey organizations. We should ask, “How good is my Civil 3D Sandbox?”

Our Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent learning to employ those skills.…

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We hope everyone out there in Civil 3D Land had a great relaxing Labor Day weekend. Did your fav college football team pull off an upset? Mine did in the last minute of their game. Hoorah. Frankly, most of the long holiday weekend we were laboring in that favorite tradition of small business in America. You know the drill.

Work smarter and harder than the other guys.

There…

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