Jump On Civil 3D Blog

We want you to get to work in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Are we are relentless and committed to that? You bet.
We consider the day-to-day productivity of our Civil 3D customers a Most Important Thing. A part of our continuous push is the on-going effort to make AutoCAD Civil 3D as simple and easy to use as is possible. Do we make it simple? You bet.

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People organizations and make AutoCAD Civil 3D implementation too big a deal. It isn’t rocket science. Civil 3D is a software tool. It may be a big, new tool, so a bit of caution is probably in order. The fact of the matter is, we actually already know how to do it. We’re engineers.

The Mission Impossible

“Houston. We have a problem.” Yes. Barring a miracle, the astronauts…

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Last post we splashed down and around the term Bucket to make Civil 3D Features a bit easier to get our heads around. There’s What, How, When, and Model buckets to AutoCAD Civil 3D Features. For all that strange stuff we have really only one chore.

Ripples in the Bucket

Each and every single Feature MUST have a unique name. This is an OOP (Object Oriented Programming)…

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Earlier this month there was a barrage of tweets about the stock templates that ship with AutoCAD Civil 3D. By in large everyone seems to agree Autodesk’s stock templates are pretty pathetic. Many users attest they are “useless” or worse. There were a few tweets that contained replacement characters like #@$%.

What the Tweet?

Their original creator (who shall remain unnamed here)…

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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), Highway Division has posted thier CAD Standards for AutoCAD Civil 3D on thier website.

The MassDOT Highway Division now has a public page where you can download thier CAD Standards for AutoCAD Civil 3D.

The resources available include: Templates, Assemblies, Symbol and block libraries, Survey guidelines, Description…

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