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Topic	Description
Road Design Basics with AutoCAD Civil and Civil 3D White Paper	This paper outlines the core components that AutoCAD Civil and AutoCAD Civil 3D use when modeling roads and highlights the fundamental building blocks required when piecing together assemblies and subassemblies.
Civil 3D 2009 New Features	New Features of Civil 3D 2009 Product.
AutoCAD 2009 - How Do I?	This documents answer many questions that a user might have when using AutoCAD 2009.
Using Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008: A Recommended Workflow	Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software provides the capability to perform storm sewer design and analysis tasks necessary in civil and environmental engineering. This extension adds important technology to the Autodesk civil engineering solution, enabling Civil 3D customers to streamline a crucial part of their workflow and leverage existing design information to predict project performance.
Implementing AutoCAD Civil 3D: Three Case Studies	CAD consulting firm Engineered Efficiency Inc. presents case studies summarizing how three organizations ranging in size successfully implemented AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software.
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 LandXML Drawing Support	LandXML interoperability is the preferred method of sharing civil engineering and survey data between users, software applications, and government agencies around the world. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 provides the highest level of support for the entire LandXML-1.1 data model. This white paper details the new and expanded LandXML import/export functionality of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 software, as well as changes from previous versions of Civil 3D.
AutoCAD® 2008 Productivity Study	White paper to guide AutoCAD customers in making an upgrade decision.
Civil 3D® 2008 Best Practices For Working With Large Data Sets	Gather detailed advice on how to configure AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and your drawing templates for greatest efficiency in large projects, and how to most effectively manage the project data.
Civil 3D® 2008 Grading Best Practices	Learn about the best way to use the feature line grading and the projection slope grading. This document includes grading scenarios which highlight various keys for success.
Civil 3D® 2007 CAD Manager's Guide	Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2007 software is a powerful, mature, civil engineering application designed to significantly increase productivity, save time, and decrease costs. It uses an industry-proven dynamic engineering model that maintains intelligent object relationships, so a change made in one place instantly updates your entire project to help you work faster and more accurately.
Civil 3D versus Bentley MX Software	This white paper compares two generations of software technologies. Bentley® MX, developed some 30 years ago and based on core technology written in the FORTRAN programming language used for mainframe computers at the time. The other, Autodesk® Civil 3D® introduced in 2003 and designed to take advantage of all contemporary and future computing technologies such as dynamic 3D modeling, a graphically rich user interface, .NET development platform, 64-bit systems, and more.
Getting the Most out of Raster Imagery in AutoCAD Civil 3D	Learn how by combining the powerful raster editing and conversion tools in Autodesk Raster Design with the comprehensive suite of site design tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D, you can incorporate just about any data type, visualize your solutions, and get the maximum use from your data in 3D.
Using AutoCAD Civil 3D for Hydrologic and Hydraulic Tasks	One of the common misconceptions about AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software is that engineers cannot use it to perform hydrology and hydraulics (H&H) for land development. Although it does not currently contain specific functions for hydrologic or pipeflow analysis, it can handle many related tasks.
MapGuide® Enterprise - Working with Resources	Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise software has a powerful API (application programming interface) for manipulating resources such as feature and drawing sources, maps, layers, and layouts. Using the Resource Service API, MapGuide-based applications can perform operations such as dynamic theming, data filtering, and layer creation among others, providing a rich, interactive experience for your users.
MapGuide® Enterprise - Creating Shareable Markups	Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise has a powerful API (application programming interface) for creating and managing resources and creating markups or redlines. In addition, the API also exposes FDO Data Access Technology to enable MapGuide-based applications to manipulate data sources directly on the server.ciently.
Why develop with the new MapGuide technology?	The next generation of web mapping technology is now available from Autodesk, ready to provide a powerful distribution tool for your maps and spatial data.
Civil 3D 2007 Vault Workflow	With Autodesk® Vault, the comprehensive data management tool included with Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2007 software, your civil engineering teams can work together to complete projects more quickly and efficiently.
Corrupt Drawing Recovery	What to do if AutoCAD is unable to open your file...
Drawing Crash Recovery	What to do if AutoCAD crashes...
Using Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 for Large Subdivision Design:	This white paper outlines best practices for large subdivision design using Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2007 software. Large subdivision design projects are often multi-phased, involving several professional disciplines and large amounts of data to produce the contract documents required for construction. Learn how Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 software is well suited for this type of project.
Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Styles: An Updated Guide to the Fundamentals	This white paper gives a comprehensive overview of the various settings used to control drawing content, explains how styles fit into the hierarchy of settings, and describes how to get started with customized styles in the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 product.
Scanned Drawing Cleanup with Autodesk Raster Design:	This paper covers various revision strategies, emphasizing the pros and cons of each along with the planning considerations involved in the use of scanned drawings.
AutoCAD 2006 Customization White Paper:	Describes the new customization user interface for menus and toolbars.
Using the new CUI Interface:	Step by step instructions on how to create custom menus, toolbars, flyouts, shortcut keys, etc... in AutoCAD 2006.
AutoCAD 2006 Dynamic Blocks Part 1 :	An overview of Dynamic Blocks and a quick tutorial.
AutoCAD 2006 Dynamic Blocks Part 2 :	An inventory of block editor, commands, parameters, actions, and parameter sets.
AutoCAD 2006 Dynamic Blocks Part 3	Advanced features of Dynamic Books.
Autodesk Civil 3D Styles: A Guide to the Fundamentals	A Guide to the Fundamentals
Using the AutoCAD Civil 3D Dynamic, Relationship-Based Environment	Autodesk has engineered the first and only feature-based civil design application where objects in the design recognize their relationship to other objects in the design. Read about the benefits of this powerful concept for the land development community.
Autodesk Civil 3D in a Multi-user Environment:	Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 software offers a very powerful set of tools that enables production sharing of project data ...
CMI Tools and the new 2006 CUI	If CMI Tools is loaded but you don't see the toolbar, ...
Saving 2005/2004 drawings back to 2000	Methods for converting 2005/2004 drawings back to previous releases.
Saving 2005/2004 drawings back to R14	Converting 2005/2004 drawings back to Release 14.
Working in Metric	How to convert AutoCAD and Land Desktop files to work with the metric unit system.
Plotting in AutoCAD	Getting started guide to plotting in AutoCAD
Custom Paper Sizes	How to configure custom paper sizes in AutoCAD
Named vs. Color Plot Styles	A discussion of pen settings in AutoCAD
Plot Standards for Networks	How to configure AutoCAD to look for plot configuration files on the network.
Converting Plot Styles	Tips on how to convert a drawing to use color-dependent plot styles (CTB files) instead of named plot styles (STB files).
DWF vs. PDF	A comparison of DWF's and PDF's in transferring files over the internet.
AutoCAD to PDF	How to create a PDF from an AutoCAD drawing.
Migrating the Express Tools	How to install the AutoCAD 2000 Express Tools on an upgrade to AutoCAD 2000i or 2002.
AutoCAD and the Internet	A guide to using DWF files in AutoCAD 2002.
UCS vs. DVIEW Twist	Methods of rotating drawings for plotting.
LDT to Softdesk 8 Compatibility	Information on saving data in LDT Projects to a Softdesk 8 format.
3D Orbit of Surfaces	How to view surfaces in 3D inside LDD
Flown or Digitized Topos	Guidelines on the format of contour drawings for creating terrains.
Advanced Design Templates	How to transition an existing edge of pavement with a variable offset in Softdesk.
What Happened to HPCONFIG?	How to set advanced plotting features in newer versions of AutoCAD
Softdesk FAQs	Frequently asked tech support questions on Softdesk Civil/Survey products.
MS Access Databases	Attaching a Microsoft Access database in AutoCAD Map.
Posting R14 DWF Files	How to insert DWF files to web pages.
Importing R14 Pen Settings	How to import R14 pen settings into newer versions of AutoCAD
LDT2 Bug List	A list of known bugs in LDD 2, and strategies to work around them.
Network Installation of AutoCAD R14	How to install the AutoCAD R14 and the Network License Manager.

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