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Performance
Your Drone Surface Has 12 Million Triangles. Now What?
How to lower surface size on large data sets or data with high precision resolution.
Kate Brown
Aug 315 min read
That Yellow Exclamation Point Is Not Decorative!
Civil 3D Yellow Exclamation
Kate Brown
Aug 36 min read
What Should the Den Tackle Next?
Call for topic ideas.
Kate Brown
Jul 271 min read
Civil 3D Surface Snapshots: The Good, the Bad, and the “Why Is My Drawing Suddenly Huge?”
Civil 3D surface snapshots explained
Kate Brown
May 265 min read
MMS and GRS Problems in Civil 3D: Missing Surfaces, Broken Files, and Other Terrain Tantrums
Civil 3D MMS and GRS problems and fixes.
Kate Brown
May 187 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 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
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