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Today, February 24, 2020, Autodesk announced new changes to their subscription model. They are retiring the serial number model, both single user and multi-user licenses, in favor of a named user model. In order to get ahead of the confusion this will cause, Autodesk set up a new forum section to use for discussion. I’mContinue reading “Autodesk Subscription changes”

Yes, I know, this is a month late. I’m sure each of you has noticed, it’s been an unusually busy month for the industry. Everyone has been crashing hard on deadlines and new projects are flooding through the door.As they say, “It’s a good problem to have.” Amid all the deadlines, the Austin CADD User GroupContinue reading “Happy New Year!”

January was an extremely busy month for everyone. Deadlines loomed heavily on most of the members who typically come to the meeting, as well as the leadership. I struggled to find time to organize this month’s meeting, and ultimately we ended up having it late. We met on January 31st, and instead of a lunchContinue reading “January 2020 meeting recap”

Behind corridors, surfaces are probably one of the most complex objects in Civil 3D. There are so many ways to define and edit a surface, if you haven’t worked with them, why not? Surfaces are the basis of so much in Civil 3D. We create profiles and sections from them, they display contours and labels,Continue reading “Surfaces”

Here’s an unconventional way to show objects in profile without having to actually model the object. This method is most often used for showing a wide range of things that the surveyor picks up, such as utility poles, transformers, meter boxes, pedestals, etc. But you can also use this method to display things the surveyorContinue reading “Projecting Points to Profiles”

Better Starts Here It’s early morning here at the Venetian. I’ve not attended AU in person for a few years, and as always, I’m amazed at the logistics that goes into such a large event as this. Kudos to Autodesk for putting on such a terrific event. Today is Forge DevCon, Dynamo and Construct andContinue reading “Autodesk University 2019 Day 1 – AM”

Often times we need to profile a utility, so we create an alignment. The alignment is what we use to generate profiles and profile views. But, if you don’t need a profile, most people forego the process of creating an alignment. I get that; a polyline works just as well, and is simpler to manipulateContinue reading “Alignments as a utility”

This is a big year for me. This is the first time I will get to attend AU, which I’ve really wanted to attend since I learned about it, way back in 2005. The closest I got to it was the AUGI CAD Camps that AUGI used to hold across North America every year. IContinue reading “Autodesk University 2019”