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MMS and GRS Files in Civil 3D: The Surface Sidecars Nobody Asked For
Explanation of Civil 3D MMS and GRS files.
Kate Brown
1 day ago4 min read
Civil 3D Surfaces: TIN vs. Grid Without the Terrain-Induced Nausea
Understanding TIN vs GRID surfaces.
Kate Brown
May 44 min read
DWG Insertion Units — Because Apparently Xrefs Needed Another Way to Waste Your Day Fighting Chaos
How CAD Insertion Units can shift data.
Kate Brown
Apr 279 min read
Alignment Curves Explained: Which One Is Easiest, Which One Is Best, and Which One Will Ruin Your Afternoon
Civil 3D Alignment Curve edits explained.
Kate Brown
Apr 207 min read
Civil 3D Alignment Spiral Types Explained
Civil 3D Alignment Curve and Spirals Explained
Kate Brown
Apr 137 min read
Minimum Distance: 3 Different Civil 3D Tools that Hide
Civil 3D Minimum Distance Tools and where they hide
Kate Brown
Apr 56 min read
6 Reasons a Corridor Will Bowtie — and How to Fix Each One
6 Reasons a Corridor Will Bowtie
Kate Brown
Mar 3011 min read
Civil 3D Corridors: Powerful, Fragile, and Occasionally Possessed
Common issues with Civil 3D Corridors
Kate Brown
Mar 255 min read
The 7 Signs Your Existing Ground Surface Is About to Destroy Your Drawing
Signs that you C3D surface is getting ready to fail.
Kate Brown
Mar 163 min read
Surface Horror Stories (Civil 3D Trauma Bonding)
Scary examples of Civil 3D Surface problems
Kate Brown
Mar 92 min read
Working with Extremely Large Existing Ground Data in Civil 3D
Working with large surfaces in Civil 3D.
Kate Brown
Mar 98 min read
Civil 3D Is Not Deterministic (And why that is a Problem)
Why two Civil 3D users see different results when doing the same steps in a design.
Kate Brown
Feb 225 min read
Civil 3D Best Practices: Observed, Repeatable, and Learned the Hard Way
Civil 3D Best Practices and Pitfalls to avoid
Kate Brown
Feb 173 min read
Civil 3D Performance Tuning That Has Nothing to do with Hardware
Your Civil 3D usually isn't slow due to hardware limitations, it is slow due to poor file hygiene.
Kate Brown
Feb 95 min read
Civil 3D GUIDs: The Invisible IDs That Will Eventually Ruin Your Day
Civil 3D GUIDs. Invisible naming and relationships that can cause file issues.
Kate Brown
Jan 314 min read
Why Civil 3D Data Shortcuts Fail Even When You Did Everything Right
Civil 3D data shortcuts not working.
Kate Brown
Jan 254 min read
My geolocated image does not insert correct with Mapiinsert command
MapIInsert Not working with US Survey Ft
Kate Brown
Jan 194 min read
Units: Why going unitless may not be a be a good answer for your projects
Why you shouldn't use unitless on Civil 3D projects.
Kate Brown
Jan 113 min read
Kate Brown
Jan 24 min read
How accurate is your existing ground surface: Creating Surfaces from various data types
Civil 3D surface creation with different data sets.
Kate Brown
Jan 12 min read
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