How much time do you budget for plan and profile sheet creation, never enough? Getting sheets created is that part of the project that always takes longer than it should. And if sheets are created ...

Companies accumulate 100’s of linetypes. Creating, editing, and testing them is a daunting and annoying task for any CAD Manager. One that can take days of trial-and-error to tweak linetype display....

Most Engineering firms have moved to a 3D world using a combination of Civil 3D and InfraWorks for Civil design, and use Revit for structural design. This simple move to a 3D landscape has guaranteed ...

Often, our template files need a significant amount of clean-up. This cleanup effort is often hampered by the fact that things get nested deep in other styles and resist removal. In some cases, like l...

Creating new template items from scratch is no easy task. Creating new linetypes requires blindly adjust obscure codes. Creating new layers and annotation styles can trigger hours of replacing existin...

Running storm analyses on our pipe networks should be straightforward in Civil 3D. Yet, with the overly complex tools out there and no good way effectively export to external spreadsheets, it's more d...

Even after old templates have been cleaned up and new template items created in their place, it's an ongoing effort to track how much standards are being adhered to, and when a need arises to remove o...

CTC's CIM Project Suite contains Civil 3D tools for everything from the survey, to grading, to plan production. These are big time-savers, yet somehow finding the time to get them implemented can be a...

Earthwork Processor is a robust tool that automates the calculation and documentation of complex earthwork volumes in Civil 3D, particular in land development projects. Given the importance of getting...