Civil 3D

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 – Available for Download

April 9, 2009

The blogosphere has been talking about it for a while now, but until today, you haven’t been able to get AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010.  I just checked the Subscription Center and found a very welcome addition to the Product Downloads section.  That’s right, anyone on Autodesk Subscription for AutoCAD Civil 3D can download the 2010 [...]

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Gets Ribbonized

March 20, 2009

Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2007 the trend has undoubtedly shifted from the traditional interface employing menus and toolbars, to the “new and improved” ribbon. Users of vanilla AutoCAD got ribbonized with last year’s 2009 release. While a classic workspace was still shipped with the product, the ribbon was an integral part of the default [...]

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Acquiring, Converting, and Using DEM Downloads in Civil 3D

March 11, 2009

While importing surface data from Google Earth is probably the easiest way to get some conceptual topographical data into your drawings, DEM’s have to be a close second.  For the uninitiated, DEM’s or Digital Elevation Models could be described as a surface whose data is organized in a grid.  This is fundamentally different than DTM’s [...]

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Timmons Group Stream Restoration Featured by Autodesk

March 6, 2009

The first week of March 2009 has proven to be rather eventful.  On Sunday/Monday Richmond, VA saw it’s first real snow since 2005. Geeks got to celebrate square root day for the first time since 2/2/04 on Tuesday (3/3/09). As if each of those weren’t noteworthy in their own right, Autodesk posted two new Civil [...]

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Labeling Pipe Crossing Inverts

January 27, 2009

This is a bit of an oldie, but goodie.  Civil 3D Pipe Label Styles can give me the Invert In or the Invert Out of a pipe, but not the invert between point a and point b.  That limitation is never really an issue until you go to label the invert of a crossing pipe.  [...]

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Tracking your position in View/Edit Corridor Section

November 3, 2008

When compared to Land Desktop’s View/Edit Sections command, Civil 3D has always been the winner.  Still it was easy to get lost modifying your corridor.  Did I need to modify station 13+25.17 or 13+25?  Prior to Civil 3D 2009 I always found myself flip-flopping between plan view and the View/Edit Corridor Section command.  Civil 3D [...]

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