
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
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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

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
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
AutoCAD Map 2013 Service Pack 1 was recently released. It’s not available through the support.autodesk.com website yet, but is available through the Communication Center in…
September 26, 2012 · 1 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk's servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon. There is now an update to the add-in so that it…
July 1, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk released a list of the planned fixes for the 3ds Max 2012 to improve feedback from the customers. This is very different from what we would typically see of the other…
June 1, 2011 · 1 min read
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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