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People ask,
“If AutoCAD Civil 3D is so dynamic, why isn’t there a way to connect Alignments to Points?”
Good question.

One pat answer is:
“Alignments have so many kinds of useful Alignment label styles we really don’t need that sort of formal relationship.”
If it’s all about the documentation and annotative problem for Alignments, then that…

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The Plan Production tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D have been around for many releases. They work as advertised, if you have a prepared plan. That implied warning is even built into the name. It follows ViewFrame Groups and their collected Frames are about publication. Some of their features and benefits are pretty restricted by their programmed genetics.

Are ViewFrame…

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Our Civil 3D video training blockbuster event - Better Deliverables in Civil 3D continues. The new Production Solutions Release 6 for AutoCAD Civil 3D delivers eye-popping action and special effects for civil engineers, surveyors, and government agencies of all kinds.

This is not an event with sound and fury signifying nothing.…

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Our search for better and more intelligent deliverables from Civil 3D requires that we thoroughly understand more than a few important Civil 3D Features. Intelligent Publish on Demand demands that we possess the Civil 3D skills to employ the Features and tools in innovative ways. These two things can be mutually exclusive.
To know is not necessarily the same…

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Like a pack of tamed raptors and an aged Terminator I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that becoming a Member of cadpilot.com comes with benefits for AutoCAD Civil 3D users and organizations.
Dude. We got the goods and the scoop on Civil 3D productivity. Civil engineers, Surveyors, and Governments happily depend on our products.
They probably won’t tell you that. We…

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