System Variables that Influence Selection

System Variables Editor in BricsCAD
AutoCAD and BricsCAD share many system variable names. System variables are responsible for controlling the behavior of the AutoCAD and BricsCAD. There is a dialog called the System Variable Editor
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Civil 3D 2025.1 Editing the TIN – No Styles Required!

Civil 3D Surface Triangles
In the past, when we had to edit our surface triangles or points, we had to edit or change the style to show triangles and points basically so we could
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Civil 3D 2025 Update 1

Tim Yarris, Senior Product Manager for Civil 3D at Autodesk, joins us to discuss what’s included in the Civil 3D 2025.1 update, some new processes in Civil 3D, and future
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Shared Coordinates for Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D

DWG Export dialog
The coordinate systems used by Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D are very different. Revit uses a coordinate system relative to the building faces and Civil 3D uses an established
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Configuring Grading Limits in AutoCAD Civil 3D

Slope Projection
Frequently, I am asked, “How would you grade a site?” There is no set answer to this question because it depends on the site. A common place to start would
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Demolishing Contours

finished grade surface masking over the existing contours in Civil 3D
In the old days when contours were polylines, it was very easy to break them and then move them to a demolition layer so that we could turn off existing
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Using Property Sets in Civil 3D for Annotation

Text Component Editor
In a previous post, we looked at attaching property set data to objects, but can we produce annotation based on property set values? There is some limited ability to produce
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Using Property Sets in Civil 3D for Field Inspection Data

Storm Structure Inspections property set
Property Sets are collections of data attached to objects or object styles that are not native properties of the object represented. AutoCAD Civil 3D exposed Property Sets a few years
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Autodesk 2025 Has Dropped

Recently, Autodesk released its Autodesk 2025 product line. Tim Yarris, AutoCAD Civil 3D Product Manager at Autodesk, join us to discuss the cool new features in the Civil Infrastructure tools.
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Building Surfaces with Vertical Faces

TIN
It’s important to understand that when you need to model a vertical face in a TIN surface, you cannot build it truly plumb. Land Development software cannot navigate TIN lines
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