Jump On Civil 3D Blog

We all learn about those nasty CAD Standards. We believe we get them down pat. Next thing we know, they come back and bite us at the most uncomfortable times.

“We cannot see the degree symbols (°) in labels in the survey parcel drawings.”

How does that happen?
Everyone who uses AutoCAD knows that we just…

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The Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit product is notable and perhaps even famous for the product’s native support for multiple variations of the National CAD Standard (NCS) Layer Standards. These include the current NCS 6.0 and NCS 6.0 AIA variants. These common NCS Layer Standard variants are variously required for GSA, DOD, US Army Corps, and other project submittals.

People…

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We proclaim that the Framework for Civil 3D is a Managed System for Autodesk Civil 3D. We famously like to tell folks, “It’s in there.” Indeed, there are many powerful and useful capabilities included inside our Framework products for Autodesk Civil 3D.

For obvious reasons, product makers tend to talk about our latest and…

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We are daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D out here in Civil 3D Land. All of us have ongoing production projects. We must embrace the day-to-day concerns that our civil engineering and survey work involves. Let’s face it - The specifics of the latest new Autodesk Civil 3D release or update may or may not blow us away. Frankly, the new Civil 3D features may not appear…

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If we run any release of Autodesk Civil 3D, that software we employ to perform our daily civil engineering and survey project work changed recently. In the last month Autodesk released the Civil 3D 2024.1 Update, the Civil 3D 2023.3 Update, the Civil 3D 2022.2.5 Update, and the Civil 3D 2021.3.6 Update. Whoa. A Civil 3D Update mania.

Aside from the mandatory…

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