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Top 6 Features for Civil 3D 2018
Civil 3D

Top 6 Features for Civil 3D 2018

1. Relative Elevation Feature Lines Civil 3D now allows the user to “lock” the feature line elevation relative to any surface. I foresee this being extremely useful for grading…

April 21, 2017 · 2 min read

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 New Features
Civil 3D

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 New Features

Civil 3D 2017 was just released this April! As always, we recommend waiting until after initial bugs are addressed to install the version, especially if you will be relying on…

April 29, 2016 · 5 min read

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AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2016: Top 10 New Features

Spring time has come again, which means a new release of Autodesk AutoCAD! Many improvements have been made for AutoCAD 2016, including a few from Autodesk's top requested features…

May 22, 2015 · 3 min read

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AutoCAD

Auto Updating Data Links

Data Links are a great way to link tables in AutoCAD with Excel spreadsheets. If you update the Excel file you'll most likely get a warning in AutoCAD that the file has been…

February 15, 2012 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

Civil 3D 2012 - Service Pack 1

The much anticipated Civil 3D 2012 Service Pack 1 has been released. You can download it from here . It's great to have this service pack, especially since it contains all the…

November 17, 2011 · 1 min read

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Map 3D Enterprise

Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1

Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1 The Map 3D 2012 Service Pack was recently released. You can download it from this Autodesk link . While investigating the update, here are a…

November 11, 2011 · 1 min read

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AutoCAD for Mac

AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 3

AutoCAD for Mac 2012 has been released, but AutoCAD 2011 for Mac has not been forgotten. AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 3 has recently been released and now provides support for Mac…

October 10, 2011 · 1 min read

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AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2012 SP1 Released

Service Pack 1 (SP1, Update 1) has been released for the Windows versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT . No news yet on the Mac update, but given that it was just released on August…

September 6, 2011 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

2011 AutoCAD and Verticals - Update 2

New service packs have been released for most AutoCAD-based 2011 products within the last month or so. This is true for AutoCAD , Civil 3D , Map 3D , Architecture , and MEP among…

July 12, 2011 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

Online CAD Training Manuals

For the past few weeks I've been working on a new project. We're taking our training manuals, example files, and even a few videos and putting them online. We're calling them CAD…

February 11, 2011 · 1 min read

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