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		<title>Intersection Wizard Tip</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working with a cutomer yesterday on some corridor issues.  When I cam across something that I had really not thought about.  The issue was that the customer&#8217;s corridor was superelevated along its entire length, except for a short section at the beginning of the alignment.  When the customer created his intersections using the intersection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=120&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new tool for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 users has been released on the Subscription Center today!  This new tool is the Volume Dashboard.  Here is the link to a video demo of the add-on.  Check it out, go to the Subscription Center, download the application and happy volume computing!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=113&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is hot off the presses this afternoon.  I will be leading two web-based courses in AutoCAD Civil 3D on November 18, 2010.  This will be the first such offerings for me as an Application Engineer at Applied Technology Group.  Come and join us as we discuss a couple of topics that I find fascinating.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=111&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another New Beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an old saying that all good things must come to an end.  Another saying that I have heard for a long time is that the only thing that is constant in this world is change.  We are human and change is one of the scariest issues that we deal with in life.  Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=108&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working with Contours in AutoCAD Civil 3D</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever created a surface in Civil 3D and wondered how in the world can I calculate the area at a particular elevation?  Well, if the elevation falls on the contour interval, that task is rather easy.  Extract the contour line from the surface as a polyline and list it.  What if the elevation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=91&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Has to be One of the Best New Features for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you dig back through the archives of this blog, you will find an entry on creating transparent hatches using a combination of Civil 3D and Map 3D.  You may recall that in Civil 3D we created our hatch areas on separate layers and used the SHRINKWRAP command to combine the hatch boundaries into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=78&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Announced&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Raster Design Object Enabler for 2011 has been posted at the Autodesk website.  There are two flavors depending which software version you have installed, 32-bit or 64-bit. Download it here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=71&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the New Home of Getting to the Dirt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you have found it.  This is the new home for Getting to the Dirt.  I hope you like the new digs.  My intent here is to contiune to bring you tidbits of information from Civil 3D.  If you would like to be notified via email of a new post on this site, just click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=9&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Conditional Subassembly &#8211; Could it be Right for You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to start this post by giving credit to Jason Hickey at Autodesk Support for suggesting that I look into the use of the Conditional Subassembly when trying to assist one of my customers a couple of weeks ago. I have to say what an asset Jason and the rest of the Civil 3D [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=50&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011</title>
		<link>http://gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/autocad-civil-3d-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Autodesk officially announced its 2011 portfolio of products. Some of those products are available on the Subscription Center. With this year&#8217;s releases, downloading from the Subscription Center is the primary way to get you software now. But, you can click on a link there and request media. Now, I don&#8217;t have a lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingtothedirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13677595&amp;post=49&amp;subd=gettingtothedirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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