May 2016 Website Additions and Updates A brief summary of the month's additions and updates: Release 7 Details Released The details of Release 7 were officially released on the website Released Linetypes...

April 2016 Website Additions and Updates A brief summary of the month's additions and updates: Release 6 Runs in Civil 3D 2017 Official testing shows all Release 6 products upgrade and run in AutoCAD...

The Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D employs a rule-based method to establish Layer Standards. We made significant improvements to that in our Release 6 upgrade last year. I’ve talked previously about our...

Release 6 has been a work in progress of continuous development for almost 12 months. If you read this blog regularly, "Thank you". You've certainly seen hints of what's detailed in here. To say the least...

Last time I talked about the idea that you can build in simple Section Line Groups into your templates and your project plans. The idea there is to use placeholder Features to get both More consistency...

We had a customer from an eastern state who was from a rather large civil engineering firm with offices all over the place. They tried out the Free Jump in one office and they liked it. As the office...

I've posted before on the NCS Layer Standards, STB vs CTB, and Project Management. All of these generated some substantial debate on the street and introduced me to some new interesting people. Thank...

Because you ask... Here is the More complete listing of all the numerous and detailed changes and major improvements in Release 5 for both AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. You can also...

Our old time AutoCAD mindset says, "If I already made it, it is tough to recreate it. Fix it." Civil 3D doesn't work that way at all. In this dynamic, model-based, and Style driven world, it’s all about...