Jump On Civil 3D Blog

For whatever reasons, almost no one looks for options until the pain and/or aggravation finally gets our attention. Even then, the work remains a struggle. Most of us will try to fix our problems with what we have in front of us. Our first response to an issue is often not to ask for help. Hope that makes sense.

The common comment we get from new Jump Kit and…

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Autodesk winds up for the early fall version of Autodesk University. This year AU 2026 is back in Las Vegas, NV on Sept 15-17, 2027. Maybe the Monday before the three days of AU matters to some if not most of us.

Out here in Civil 3D Land another year’s AU means the release of major Updates to core AutoCAD, the Map 3D Toolset,…

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Human beings like a good tragedy. We like a good comedy too. Those facts are recognized in movie ticket sales and show ratings year after year in market after market. Did you notice they are about to release a new big screen version of Homer’s 2700-year-old action tale - The Odessey?
How can we miss that?

We love a combination of the two classic, dramatic forms even…

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Autodesk recently announced a $3.6 billion dollar purchase of MaintainX and the subsequent creation of the new Autodesk Operations Solutions group inside Autodesk. From away up here in the cheap seats, we believe this is the largest, single technology purchase that Autodesk has ever made. Something to consider seriously.

Somewhere there must be a video about…

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The specifics of the latest Autodesk Civil 3D release may not blow us away. The new Civil 3D features may not appear particularly useful for our current project work. Out here in Civil 3D Land, we are daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D. We must embrace the day-to-day concerns that drive our civil engineering and survey work.

In some speculative…

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