Novedge Pulse™ of Almas Suljevic

Continuing with our New Feature articles there are two quick things I wanted to show today. The first one is the ability to use Automatic Pan and Zoom to Survey Figure. This is useful in case if you were reviewing [more...]

From time to time we get an opportunity to invite you and your talent to work for one of the best places to work for - Autodesk? The Infrastructure Support team is looking for a good candidate with strong AutoCAD [more...]

One of the cool new things in Civil 3D and other AutoCAD based programs is the ability to, how we call it, "round-trip data" between different versions. If you remember, it was said numerous times before that Civil 3D is [more...]

One of the new features I'm positive you will like it is the ability to share referenced objects. How many time it happened that you received your drawing to realize with missing references? Too many times, I suppose. Well, in [more...]

Year after year around this time you may come to expect some more information about the new release of Civil 3D 2014. The same is true this year. Being Civil will try to familiarize you with the new features and [more...]

As you have heard our newset versions are seeing the light these days. Since Civil 3D is built on top of AutoCAD we figured that it would be good idea to mention a few things that AutoCAD 2014 brought into [more...]

This may not be the issue you may encounter very often but if it happens you may have hard time to figure it out. In that case you may appreciate it. In any case, it’s not bad idea to be [more...]

You know that we have been advocating opening AutoCAD drawings from within AutoCAD. Besides making sure you are opening your drawing with appropriate application one other thing that I believe is very useful is that you can preview your drawing [more...]

Sometimes some issues should be classified in rather “bizarre” category if there is a tag for it. Many times hangs and lock-ups are bad signals that may be related to bad installation, application conflicts, graphic related issues or just bad [more...]

Over the years on Being Civil we have written numerous articles about crashes and how and what caused them and how to avoid them, yet they still occur and we keep writing more and more. Just as a refresher I [more...]

As a strong advocate of using Help menu whenever you can I am just compelled to write about this. We recently had one report where users could not print the articles coming from Help due to the similar message: Problem [more...]

This week I learned about an issue that I would like to share with you. I don’t think many users will be affected by it, but I thought it was worth sharing because there was no information I could easily [more...]

Before we are off for our well-deserved week of rest I wanted to wish you all happy holidays and all the success you need in the next year. I also wanted to share something with you that some of you [more...]

I have been meaning to write about this for a while now but for some reason the timing was pretty bad for me every time the thought crossed my mind....until, my colleague Phil (our Map 3D guru) asked for it [more...]

When importing points from point files one of the most common issues you may see is that the file does not parse correctly producing this error (No point file format match found) or a similarly sounding error. In almost all [more...]

Before we all go off for a well-deserved weekend I wanted to share something with you. When inserting raster images (such as MrSID or ECW, TIFF,…) through Civil 3D or Map 3D with Raster Design out of 4 dialog one [more...]

By now we all know that Corridors and Corridor Surfaces are dynamically linked and that changes would propagate as soon as your corridor or surface used as target in corridor is changed. However, there is one exception to that rule [more...]

Some of you may have completed adding your custom subassemblies onto your tool palette already so; in that case you may skip this post. But in case there are some users others out there wanting to do it and are [more...]

I just wanted to share something with you that I encountered last week. In fact, it was a customer reporting the issue where his tool palette was showing only block and no civil assemblies and subassemblies were there. See this [more...]

When adding WMS through FDO connection the message “There was a problem adding data to Map” appears. This message is typically followed by another more descriptive message. But, not this time. The (Web Map Service) WMS was coming from an [more...]