Civil 3D

Setting Up & Configuring a Distributed License Server

August 26, 2008

The task of configuring a license server can be a daunting task.  Just the name itself implies cancel all of my afternoon meetings, get me some coffee, I’m going to be here a while.  Thankfully that’s just the stigma surrounding the configuration of license files.  Knowing that some of the other documentation out there can [...]

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Autodesk University Registration Open

August 8, 2008

It’s official – registration for AU 2008 is open.In the words of Autodesk, the site is “Sputtering along”, but open nonetheless.  While this is certainly inconvenient, it is a promising sign that AU will be bigger than ever (despite the current state of the economy).  AU 2007 was my first AU, and it really is [...]

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Convincing Management to Upgrade

June 18, 2008

Brian Benton of CAD-a-Blog recently commented on my last post Engineered Efficiency offers Unlimited Live Training, telling a story I hear all too often. Let me summarize; in short his firm upgraded to Civil 3D 2007 a couple years ago, but aren’t using Civil 3D – instead they’re running “Civil 3D as AutoCAD”. Doing that [...]

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The Truth About Deploying Civil 3D

June 6, 2007

So I must confess, this post was born as a response to an e-mail I recently received from one of my readers. As I began writing my response it became overly apparent to me that my response was one that could benefit more than just one reader, and thus the moment I decided to make [...]

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Where’s my Panorama Window?

June 20, 2006

The Panorama Window is a great design resource when working with either alignments or profiles. However the Panorama Window can prove temperamental at times, and absolutely refuse to display. So the question remains, how do I get the darn thing back? In Civil 3D: Minimize the current drawing (not the Civil 3D session, but the [...]

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