MAP and Civil working together

Yesterday I attended the Seize the Opportunity - ProSoft PowerLaunch 2011, and was throughly impressed by the What the Hell are these Map tools doing in Civil 3D, presentation given by AutoDesk employee Peter Southwood. One of the tips he gave was to connect to images instead of inserting them into the drawing. no only does this reduce the overall drawing file size it saves system resources also. I was unable to find any posted online by Peter, but I did find an AU OnLine article that details the image connect and much more. So take a look and see if it works for you.

Civil v. Civil3D

It looks like those of you who saved a few bucks and went with the "scaled down" AutoCAD Civil product may have been on the correct path. According to Civil3dPedia Autodesk Announced yesterday they would be discontinueing the AutoCAD Civil product, and those on Subscription would be recieving AutoCAD Civil3D for the remainder of their subscription contracts.

It will be interesting to what will happen when it comes time to renew subscription contracts for those companies with both products.