2007 June 06

Autocad and Civil 3D 2008

On June 6, 2007, in 2008, by Mark Scacco, P.E.

Well, my doctor finally cleared me to venture back out (cautiously) into the big bad world. So what did I do? I went to the Autodesk Experience the Possibilities tour in Chicago! While much of it was pretty high level marketing stuff, the AutoCAD Tips and Tricks session presented by Heidi Hewett was interesting.

Most of us Civil 3D geeks spend so much of our time digging into the features of our favorite application we forget that its based on the most popular CAD platform on the planet. It’s likely that AutoCAD has changed quite a bit since the last time you took an AutoCAD class.

Here are a few tidbits that all Civil 3D users should know.

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civil 3d in a war zone

On June 6, 2007, in civil3d.com, by James Wedding, P.E.

No, a real war zone. My brother Jeep (it’s a long story) is in Iraq as the Commander of the 15th Detachment of the 732nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron at Balad Airbase. As we exchange email, I was surprised to find these guys are running Civil 3D 2007, along with Map and ARCView in carrying out their mission. These guys are handling everything from working with the Corps of Engineers on larger projects to sidewalks and maintenance pads to building upkeep.

No matter how bad the office infighting gets, at least you never have to put on this kind of outfit to go to a CAD Standards Committee meeting. Might help some days though.

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