Civil 3d is focused mainly to the Engineering side of the shop, not surveying. There are some useful add on tools that make it much more surveyor fri...

Before you start I would strongly suggest you download and read the articles posted here by Richard Sincovec. If you copy this information to the eng...

From the order form.> If you recently participated in the 2013 BeerAid program, donated between $100 and $199 or over $300 since May 31, 2013 and r...

Send me an email. We've got a 5605 that I've been planning to sell.

I called TDS years ago about this issue. They were absolute - the software license goes with the serial number of a specific piece of hardware. No t...

Fort Mac is definitely high stress surveying. Big money, but you have to produce every day without fail. Safety requirements can be extreme, not rea...

Next time tell them you want an estimate with an upset price.X hours at $Y rate up to a limit as submitted in the quote. Any work beyond the upset pr...

It's a general ACad bug, not specific to Civil3D and it has been reported since they introduced Annotative text. Check this thread for more informati...

Send it to sboon1 at telus dot net and I'll try it in 2014.

Beer RunHmm...So 1 million might get me a visit from Wendell with beer, but no swag. The next question is, how much is a visit from Angel worth - wit...

> How do you code your points when using a data collector?In our system there are three broad classes of point codes. Some points are always repre...

If the creator of the drawing has turned on the PROXYGRAPHICS variable before saving the drawing then you will see a static graphical representation o...

I can try it here in 2014 - the newer versions of ACad usually have more robust tools for finding and fixing errors.sboon1 at telus dot net