Being Civil

Introducing Interactive Terrain Shaping Tool

Autodesk Lab released a new tool called Interactive Terrain Shaping which introduces an all new approach for developing grading proposals from initial concept through delivery of detailed grading plans. This project has gotten rave reviews from customers who've seen it...

2/3/2012 11:35:59 AM

How to Flatten Survey Figures?

Sometimes we see the Service Requests that steps on the boundary of what program can do at the time. Recently we worked on a case where our customer was trying to produce a survey plan in 2d for his client....

2/2/2012 9:20:00 AM

Civil 3D is not responding when switching between Model tab and Layout tabs...

Hi everybody... This is something that we have had seen a lot lately (Civil 3D is not responding when switching between Model tab and Layout tabs). It can happen for multiples reasons, a corrupted drawing, video card issues, network problems,...

1/30/2012 8:38:41 AM

ANALYZING HGL WITH TAIL WATER CONDITION

I would like to show a very simple yet commonly mistaken procedure committed by many SSA users with tail water condition at the outfall of the system. Below is a screenshot of a profile plot with fixed water elevation at...

1/25/2012 10:47:37 AM

64-bit operating systems and Excel/Access connections

As more and more of us are able to move to 64-bit operating systems, the question of how to connect to recalcitrant Excel and Access files comes up regularly. To address that, we've created a new technical solution: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS18307898. The...

1/23/2012 11:12:12 AM

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