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Contours Aren't Magic: We Used to Draw This Crap by Hand!!
Deep dive into explaining old old school way of creating contours and why it is still important now that Civil 3D does it for us.
Kate Brown
Sep 245 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
That Yellow Exclamation Point Is Not Decorative!
Civil 3D Yellow Exclamation
Kate Brown
Aug 36 min read
Civil 3D 2026 Partial Surface Data References: Smaller Area, Bigger File?
Civil 3D Partial Surface Data Reference explained
Kate Brown
Jul 133 min read
Your Surface Is Not Broken. Your Breaklines Are Lying.
Civil 3D Breakline Issues with surfaces
Kate Brown
Jun 155 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
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
MMS and GRS Files in Civil 3D: The Surface Sidecars Nobody Asked For
Explanation of Civil 3D MMS and GRS files.
Kate Brown
May 114 min read
Civil 3D Surfaces: TIN vs. Grid Without the Terrain-Induced Nausea
Understanding TIN vs GRID surfaces.
Kate Brown
May 44 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
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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