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Civil 3D Pipe Networks: Sharing Underground Problems With Friends
Civil 3D Pipe Network problems and possible fixes.
Kate Brown
Sep 134 min read
Pipe Networks: Basics on Pipes, Structures, and Lies We Tell Ourselves
Civil 3D Pipe Network Basics
Kate Brown
Sep 77 min read
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
Panorama: Civil 3D’s Pop-Up Confession Booth
Civil 3D explanation on the Panorama window.
Kate Brown
Aug 246 min read
Civil 3D Profile View Bands: Organized Data or Decorative Chaos?
Explaining C3D Profile Bands and Issues that can happen with Bands.
Kate Brown
Aug 177 min read
Civil 3D Sites: The Good, the Bad, and the Topologically Unhinged
Civil 3D Sites: The Good, The Bad, and The Unhinged
Kate Brown
Aug 1010 min read
That Yellow Exclamation Point Is Not Decorative!
Civil 3D Yellow Exclamation
Kate Brown
Aug 36 min read
Save Successful. Close Drawing. Fatal Error. Repeat.
Save Successful. Close Drawing. Fatal Error.
Kate Brown
Jul 272 min read
Civil 3D on ACC/Forma: Cloud Storage Does Not Fix Bad Habits Highlights Them
Civil 3D ACC/Forma Best Practices and Pitfalls
Kate Brown
Jul 205 min read
Data Shortcuts vs Xrefs: Pick Your Dependency Monster
Digging into the differences of Civil 3D data shortcuts v s xrefs and best practice for each.
Kate Brown
Jul 67 min read
Civil 3D Point Groups: Tiny Filters, Little Dumpster Fires
Civil 3D Cogo Point Groups Explained
Kate Brown
Jun 286 min read
Feature Lines: The Useful Little Monsters
Civil 3D feature lines explained.
Kate Brown
Jun 87 min read
Why Civil 3D Is Screaming at You: A Field Guide for Civil 3D Errors
Civil 3D Errors Explained
Kate Brown
Jun 110 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
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
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
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
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