Please Explain the Jump Products
"I don't understand the Jump Products.
Why are there different products?
What do they do?
Make this simple for me?"
Become a Jump Service Customer and Don't Worry About It
If you use Civil 3D, maybe that works for you. It is the answer to the real questions.
Is this "Jump thing" going to work for me? Where should I start?
We would not allow you to become a paying customer if we could not help.
We've never had anyone complain they didn't get their money's worth.
These Great Questions still deserve an answer.
All Jump Products are integrated parts of a our service that helps
YOU make YOUR Civil 3D more productive.
The Jump Products are not software.
They do not contain code.
The Jump Products are parts of a Process Solution.
You are an ACTIVE part of the Process.
What Jump Products do...
The Jump Products Increase Civil 3D PRODUCTIVITY
Jump products provide the Tools, a Systematic Method to Use the Tools, and a way to Maintain the Tools.
These different things are all needed to make AutoCAD Civil 3D work well at one point in time or another.
Daily Use and Management
There are two LEVELS of work required to employ Civil 3D productively on your civil engineering projects. Nothing special here - this is no different from than any other work.
Daily Use - Creating drawings and producing output
Management - Maintaining the "System" that maximizes the Daily Use
For organizations large or small, the Use and Management tasks often may get mixed together on the job.
However, the distinction of these separate levels not only helps explain why there are different Jump Products, but why so many also struggle with Civil 3D implementation and adoption.
Jump Products with "InstantOn" in the name are Daily Use products.
It's a Matter of Time...and More
Civil 3D Daily Use skills and detailed knowledge take time to acquire. Both of these are much more difficult to learn in an unstable, inconsistent, and changing "environment".
That is the "environment" you get when AutoCAD Civil 3D is installed out of the box.
"Here you go. Get in and give this baby a test drive. It faster than anything you every drove before. Oh, by the way, you'll need to make some adjustments to the steering and the brakes while you learn to drive it."
We Resist Change When the Results Become Painful
The Jump Products stop this madness.
Civil 3D is faster, more powerful, and easier to use civil engineering software.
Some people laugh when I say that.
It is true...IF the details are properly managed.
The Jump Products are a Standard Way to Manage the Details
Learning to Manage this more complex and detailed Civil 3D "environment" takes even more time. Our existing skills and methods may be of little help. They are also easy to employ in the wrong way.
When we lack practical useful examples and do not have successful methods to model our behavior on, learning to Manage any process takes even longer.
The Chicken or the Egg
You can hire a skilled expert who does understand both the big picture and the details or you can figure out a system internally the hard way by trial and error.
Both ways will cost you a bundle of time and money.
We provide field-tested Tools, a Framework, and Systems that work as "service products".
Jump Products are based on and comply with recognized National Standards.
Today Most Jump Products are Management LEVEL products
In various "flavors" and levels of detail, they provide the System and Structure to get the essential Management and maintenance work done quickly and that allows real people optimize Civil 3D for Daily Use.
Size Does Matter
The Jump products chop up the Civil 3D elephant into bite-sized pieces.
We both want and expect Customers to test and evaluate our approach.
We allow firms and organizations to actively use our Free Jump product to do real work.
Why? Because many discover that More is Possible.
New Adopters Face Different Challenges and Needs than the Skilled
Most "Whole" or Solution service products address the issue this way:
Build a Platform. Ours is called Jump Station
We add or remove integrated different parts - other Products as needed
Small Groups do not Work like Big Ones
In smaller organizations people usually wear many more hats.
People have both less time and less need to become in-depth software experts.
Many civil engineering groups in large organizations work like this too
An In-depth, Standardized Platform approach works for all
Complex Projects take more Management Skill and Investment than Simple ones
There is no escaping the reality that large project management must be more systematic
Practically you also usually get more exceptions to the "rules" as well
A solution that works must be Robust, Detailed, and Flexible
A Platform coupled with other Products meets the need
Manage It and the Daily Use is Possible
We've built hundreds and hundreds of Daily Use tools.
We package them up in the Platform - Jump Station and in other products
In Civil 3D, we call some of these Daily Use tools "Styles" and "Sets"
There are more Daily Use tools than just Styles and Set in our Products.
The bottom line is this simple...
If people can't use the Tools or break Tools when they use them, does that help anyone?
Of course not.
To do More productive Daily Work you must have a Managed System.
That Managed System must get better and become more robust, detailed and flexible.
The Jump Products significantly reduce any organization's investment in Management (non-billable) man-hours and also help maximize your Daily Use (billable) man-hours.
Start the process...
It Makes More Sense and Makes More Possible
Why is the Jump Different and New?
Our innovative Jump Template Solutions are something new in the marketplace.
All our Jump Template Solutions are a massive departure from the traditional approach to implementing Autodesk software which is to internally "customize" the software from the ground up. This doesn't appear to make sense given the power, depth, and complexity of Autodesk's model-based software. Complete internal customization also no longer appears to make sense practically and financially for many organizations.
Civil Engineers want to do engineering not customize software.
Architects want to design buildings not recreate interfaces.
We constructed a customization platform that organizations of any size can use to more rapidily adopt, implement, and profit from their existing investment in AutoCAD Civil and AutoCAD Civil 3D modeling software. If you have attempted adopt and implement Civil 3D, you understand the need and probably Get the Jump.
You may have even created your own internal customization. If so, you understand the maitenance issues involved. You also understand how difficult it is to recoup your intellectual capital investment. We all face that challenge.
What we "give away" you can't get for any price anywhere in the entire world. We haven't just raised the bar. We are intent on changing the game. Why? Because it just makes more sense.
Jump Platform Q&A
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1. Inexpensive but Definitely not Feeble
o A complete End-to End solution with all the parts and all the functionality you need
o Rave Reviews by Autodesk Reseller Application Engineers from all over the US
o No one else in the world offers anything comparable at ANY price
2. Includes 3500+ Functional Feature Styles, Label Styles, and Sets
o In-depth Style collections support every Civil 3D feature
o All common tasks are well supported by Style, Label Styles, and Set
o Integrated and Name matching Support File Resources
o Multiple templates that are integrated work together
o Plots Right out of the Box
o Simply put… makes Civil 3D sing, dance, and play in the band
3. Based on National Published Standards and built to be a Standard to Build On
o National CAD Standard (NCS) compliant
o Uniform Drawing Standard compliant
o Tri-Service Plotting standard compliant
o More civil engineering ready
4. Provides an Platform for the neutral delivery and exchange of entire Civil 3D projects
o Submit digital files in Civil 3D without handing over your in-house customization
o Great for Government agencies who must deal with lots of consultants and other agencies
o An inexpensive set of Civil 3D CAD Standards with multiple release support
5. Reduce your Real Cost of deploying Civil 3D in production
o It’s Easier to Edit than to Create
o No need to spend thousands of dollars on Style and Template creation
o No complex code to install or pay for
o Ready to Run
o Plots out of the Box
6. Reduce your Training and Implementation Costs
o Train and Use Simplicity - Staff can use InstantOn products Today
o Training Ready Dataset Included
o Every Feature and every Label Style
o Consistent Naming Conventions for All resources
o Proposed and Existing conditions are built-in
o In-depth documentation
7. Reduces your Maintenance Costs
o Designed to be personalized, customized and maintained
o The Jump Platform development process is proven in the real world on real projects
o Follow the simple PUBLISHED rules and projects will migrate quicker and easier
o Jump Platform products have upgraded from release to release 5 times
8. Includes a Working Project dataset that can be used for Testing and Training
o A real world project dataset is supplied with working drawings
o Quick and Easy install and setup
o Examples of all key Civil 3D tasks and Features
o Ready to plot Sheet Set and Plan Production tool examples
9. Quick and Easy to Personal and Customize In-depth
o Designed from the ground up to be quickly personalized
o Pick your favorite Styles and Sets and go to work
o Standardized to be Customized "in-depth' with less work in less time
o Jump Kits make producing task based and specialized templates fast and easy
10. Jump Platform Products make AutoCAD Civil3D work
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We sent out a version of the The Jump Platform - The Template Solution for Civil 3D (we now call it Jump Station) for evaluation by the toughest audience in North America - the best Autodesk Reseller Civil Application Engineers around.
Some of them consider The Jump the "competition", so what were we thinking?
We know that The Jump is a better place to start even for Civil 3D experts.
We want to thank our reviewers for thier contributions and helpful suggestions that made Jump Station and the Autodesk US California Country Kit even better.
"Obviously, a considerable amount of work has been performed creating these templates... I am shocked at the level of detail included."
- Northwest region
"Great work! Looks really good."
- West region
"The Jump definately represents an enormous amount of effort in terms of development and documentation. It can be seen that the developer spent a good amount of time establishing an across the board offering of styles.
- West region
"Our customers can use this now."
- Southwest region
"There is a good Style naming convention"
- Northeast region
"The Jump should help customers of all sizes adopt AutoCAD Civil 3D."
- Central region
"If I were the State Department of Transportation, I'd look really hard at this (The Jump)."
- Central region
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o A functional set of templates that fully support the production use of Civil 3D
o 3500+ Feature and Label Styles supporting every Feature and Label Style
o In-depth documentation even inside the templates and the Styles
o ByDesign based on national published standards
o ByDesign built to be quick and easy to customize
o ByDesign built to reduce the cost of deploying Civil 3D in production
o ByDesign built to reduce start up training and implementation costs
o ByDesign built to reduce on-going maintenance costs
o ByDesign includes a working project dataset
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Our current Free Jump download is contains a subset of the collection of Styles and Sets available in the Instant On Basic along with some the "setup and Ready to Run" templates that product.
The Free Jump is a Ready to Run Civil 3D Template Solution for you to evaluate InstantOn Basic at no cost.
The included Styles DO contain intentionally introduced plot time errors.
The Free Jump does contain and share many of the Jump Platform resource files from our other Template Solutions. However, all the available resources from Instant On Basic are NOT included.
The Free Jump is also NOT a customization platform for the development of Civil 3D templates.
We offer The Jump Kit product that perform the tasks of customization, personalization, and maintenance of Civil 3D templates for your production environment better and faster.
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o Jump Start is our maintenance service product - a low-cost annual fee per site location
o Supports multiple releases (2010, 2011 and 2012) of Civil 3D
o Includes The Jump Kits for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 and 2011
o Jump Start helps take the headache’s out of new release deployments and project upgrades
o Includes a deeper set of more detailed and crafted styles for various Civil Features
o Supplies additional Style functionality on a regular quarterly basis via download
o Product Update required changes and style fixes as fast as possible
o Access to video-on-demand training library of hundreds of hours of Civil 3D training
o Discounts on training materials
o Discounts on Customization Services
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Autodesk, Inc. or MoreCompetency, Inc.
o The Autodesk USCA Country Kit 2010 was built for Autodesk under contract by MoreCompetency, Inc.
o Jump Station is what we call the Jump Platform. It is a part of our Complete Template Solution of products delivered in our Jump Start Services product
Installation
o The USCA Imperial Country Kit includes an automated install to default locations
o Jump Station includes the same basic file set but the install is intentionally manual
Number of Styles and Style Complexity
o All versions were designed to be thinned down as a part of your customization
o Therefore customers will find the even the simpliest versions of the templates contain more than enough to meet most of their needs
o The Country Kit and Jump Station include Design, Survey, and Simple versions of these working templates.
o These include about 2000 Styles/Sets
o Simple versions include about 80% of the Styles/Sets in the Complex templates
o Jump Start includes about 20% more Styles /Sets in raw count
o Jump Start includes more detailed and crafted versions of important Styles, Label Style collections, and various Sets
o Jump Start includes quarterly updates and regular new content features as they are developed
o Jump Start includes additional files, documentation, instruction, etc to reduce customization, maintenance. Project upgrade, and software upgrade time and expense.
Support
o The Country Kit is supported via email to Autodesk only for Subscription customers
o Jump Station support is available and via upgrade to Jump Start Services
o Free live and recorded training webinars are available
o Free installation videos are available for Jump Station
o Access to Video on demand training is available for:
o Essential Customization and Maintenance
o Key Civil processes and tasks employing the example dataset
o Training Courseware available as released
o Jump Start Services include access to on-demand video and live webinar training
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Our innovative Jump Template Solutions are something new in the marketplace.
All our Jump Template Solutions are a massive departure from the traditional approach to implementing Autodesk software which is to internally "customize" the software from the ground up. This doesn't appear to make sense given the power, depth, and complexity of Autodesk's model-based software. Complete internal customization also no longer appears to make sense practically and financially for many organizations.
Civil Engineers want to do engineering not customize software.
Architects want to design buildings not recreate interfaces.
We constructed a customization platform that organizations of any size can use to more rapidily adopt, implement, and profit from their existing investment AutoCAD Civil 3D modeling software.
If you have attempted adopt and implement Civil 3D, you understand the need and probably Get the Jump.
You may have even created your own internal customization. If so, you understand the maitenance issues involved. You also understand how difficult it is to recoup your intellectual capital investment. We all face that challenge.
What we "give away" you can't get for any price anywhere in the entire world. We haven't just raised the bar. We are intent on changing the game. Why? Because it just makes more sense.