Civil 3D Features and their built in Tooltips can be really helpful. One of my favorite improvements in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 is the fact that the Tooltips are generally much more refined. In older releases...

...decisions. The basic Civil 3D reports are often NOT enough to produce the contunuously developing quality control and reporting processes that good engineering practice must embrace. Therefore... You...

Recently, I've gotten a number of requests from people who want help getting their Civil 3D Feature based drawings smacked down to "dumb" AutoCAD and other CAD or GIS formats. This includes the still...

I won't claim credit for creating the great term "civil lobotomy". It was tweeted to me by a new follower (thanks John) in response to my Dumb it Down to CAD post. Isn't the growth of social networking...

The NCS Layer Standards rely on the concept and practice of a standard Pattern (Keys and delimiters) coupled with Major and Minor Keys. Every CAD Layer or Level standard employs this basic concept these...

...support for 2012 new Features and Style Management Tools will be available as soon as our in-depth quality control process is complete with the officially released product.

The Jump Platform is a rapid Personalization environment for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Quick Personalization is perhaps a not so obvious process benefit of the Jump Platform's "project based development environment...

I swear even before we finished uploading The Jump Kit 4 2011 product download I got the "What's in there?" question in an email from a prospective Jump Kit customer. It's great that people are excited...

I make my living helping real people adopt and make AutoCAD Civil 3D work. Don't get the title of this post wrong. I do think Civil 3D needs to get easier to learn and use. I bitch about that a LOT to...

Some of our Jump customers have requested More in-depth support for additional NCS compliant utlities and other common roadway and site features. This isn't rocket science, but reducing the tedium, cleanup...