Jump On Civil 3D Blog

Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of immediate and published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Can we call this lust the One and Done? For surveyors this may mean Point data from Survey Dbs. I trust we have all moved beyond imported point files and drawing-centric COGO points? The Lord…

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Autodesk Civil 3D Label Style choice and preference is a bit of a quandary for all of us out here in Civil 3D Land. We do attempt to address that complex Civil 3D management and maintenance challenge in our Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit products. Most customers seem to agree we do a pretty good job. No product is perfect. This can be especially true when we thin…

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Our work stays the same and our work changes. This is certainly true for Style maintenance and improvement tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. It is fair to say that almost everyone who employs Civil 3D has issues with maintaining Style consistency inside the projects. Civil 3D Users mess with the stuff. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.

Those that claim to have conquered this beast in Civil…

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Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there is the large, critical path Style problem. There is real user need for Style Choice. Civil 3D Styles have a variety of purpose. There are clearly Styles and Label Styles we need to employ for different purposes. Civil engineering design and survey processes involve creation, edit, QAQC, and an increasing number of…

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Happy New Year! Let’s proactively start the New Year with a talk about some practical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.

I manage and maintain an enormous set of Civil 3D Style resources for more versions and flavors of Civil 3D. Most folks see these manifested in the Framework for Civil 3D products that are delivered from this site. I had to learn the hard way to systematically…

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