Jump On Civil 3D Blog

“You suggested on the phone that I root around in the project dataset that you supply with Jump Kit. You pointed me to example drawings on the phone. These days I don’t expect much from examples supplied by software people like Autodesk. I was pleasantly surprised.

Every time I get stuck in my work I root around in your project and manage to figure out how to make the magic…

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People have been bugging me for quite a while to collect recorded Civil 3D training gems. Yes. There’s already one of the largest collections of free Civil 3D video training available here. No one does everything. No one knows everything either. There’s never enough time. Frankly, I get tired of talking to the wall too. Surprise. I, like you, must also study…

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Civil 3D Styles and Label Styles employ (reference) the AutoCAD named parts to express themselves. Civil 3D Style tools just look for and match the right names that we’ve agreed to. Change the meaning of the property definitions connected to those agreed names and you can change anything.

In formal terms employing the practice of Style management…

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Below is one of my favorite quotes about modern model-based software. It came to me from one of my training and support staff back in the day. It’s worth thinking about.

“If civil engineering was easy, anyone could do it. Thank God it isn’t or we’d all starve. Software tools can make many production things faster, but faster doesn’t always make for better…

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Want to be a civil engineering design wizard in AutoCAD Civil 3D? You must master the Intersection Wizard. The Intersection Wizard sits atop the magic design control tower in Civil 3D. The way to the top seems to go around and around.

That means you must have established a mastery over the Civil 3D Design Control Manager – the Alignment…

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