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In a recent post we discussed the term Bucket and the important concepts of mini-buckets.

This Bucket speak helps make Autodesk Civil 3D Features a bit easier to understand. We discovered that there are What, How, When, and Model mini-buckets in the Civil 3D Feature Bucket. There are important Where mini-buckets…

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The daily production mechanics of Autodesk Civil 3D’s interconnected and project-based Dynamic Model are indeed very powerful. These sometimes-convoluted mechanics can be downright overwhelming as well. We aren’t always so clear what that means at the very practical and daily work level.

We are all confronted with a daunting certainty in Civil 3D. The simple…

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In Autodesk Civil 3D, we all know that the word template comes up time and time again. Heck. Out here in Civil 3D Land, we even have a Framework for Civil 3D product that we call Templates Only. Lots of customers say that Templates Only gets the essential Civil 3D Standards job done. Hoorah!

We all need many types of Civil…

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Lots of folks in Civil 3D Land are fully committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. There’s nothing wrong with that. The Grading Design by Feature Line Heuristic is well understood and employed by most civil engineering and survey professionals. Civil 3D is loaded with useful practical commands and Ribbon tools to help…

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Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment; its child Profiles; its child Offset Alignments; their slope-controlled Offset Profiles; Widenings; Intersections; Curb Return Alignments; and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins.…

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