In the ongoing quest to keep your Civil 3D drawings clean and fast, you are probably aware of purging items using the standard AutoCAD purge command, and that you can purge C3D styles using the appropriate command. You’re probably also…
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For the last several years, AutoCAD (and verticals, such as Civil 3D) have included a utility to “Reset Settings to Default” We have seen that in the case of Civil 3D, this does some strange things such as resetting the…
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On the heels of the recent Civil 3D 2019.3 update, comes the 2019.3.1 update. We believe this fixes things that were broken by the 2019.3 update. In other words, these items were operating okay before the application of the 2019.3…
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Civil 3D 2020 Update 1 is now available. You can find the download inside of your Autodesk account, or via the desktop app.
If you are running Civil 3D 2018 with the .3 update installed, and you are receiving a fatal error while creating a best fit alignment, then the solution, according to Autodesk is…..
The 1603 MSI install error is pretty common, and the solutions are widespread. The following are some of the technical articles from Autodesk on 1603: AutoCAD Mechanical 2018 installation failure on CheckForRunningTasks AutoCAD 2018 Core installation failure on CheckForRunningTasks Error:…
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If you are a Civil 3D user and you see a strange icon next to your cursor during certain operations, you are not alone. It seems to be an issue in Civil 3D 2019, and it looks like a tiny…
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Autodesk has now released Civil 3D 2019, the latest version of its base civil engineering design software. Built on top of the recently released AutoCAD 2019 platform, Civil 3D 2019 incorporates its own set of new features, as well as…
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If you have ever tried to purge a textstyle, layer, linetype, etc. in a Civil 3D drawing, and you are prevented from doing so, but you cannot find the object in the drawing? If the object cannot be found in…
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Under certain circumstances, Civil 3D 2017 can cause the DWG file size to grow with each save. If the user does not notice this, it can eventually render the drawing difficult or impossible to open. The file size increase is…
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