Not looking to step on anyone’s toes but this is my opinion and my opinion only. To me Civil3D is a design tool as Allen closely stated. It is a dynamic object oriented tool for roadway, piping and grading design and its revisions for land development and NOT surveying. Survey drafting is what it is on the day the survey was taken. The surface will not move or adjust in any way unless a mistake was made during the survey process after the surface is created in the office. The only thing I see that could be dynamic in Survey drafting is when the lot lines are placed and adjusted if need be. AutoDesk does not and probably will not take this into consideration, their programmers, in my opinion, don’t work in the real world and if they did, maybe they forgot where they came from. I see companies staying with LDD 2009 as long as they can or going elsewhere, like some people have stated about Carlson. Maybe LDD should be condensed down only to the survey package and some Land commands and made available that way but more than likely not because they want to control the price of the software and how we do things. As long as you can XML between the programs, that’s good enough for me. Why do you think AutoDESK bought out EaglePoint and shut them down? I think there would still be some conflict in the work place where companies having a survey department as well as a land development department for software compatibility but that’s where XML comes in, in my opinion. So either we adjusted, learn a few work arounds or go else where for our needs.