Jump Platform Q&A

• Ten Reasons to Use a Jump Platform product

  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 5000+ 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 Build in Land Desktop graphic support

  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 consultants and other agencies
          o An inexpensive set of CAD Standards with multiple Civil 3D 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 An in-depth Training 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 upgrade from release to release

  8. Includes a Working Project dataset that can be used for Developmrnt 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 Personalize 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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• The Jump is Reviewed

  We sent out a version of the The Jump Platform - The Template Solution for Civil 3D 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 the Jump Platform 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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• What’s in the Jump Platform?

    o A functional set of templates that fully support the production use of Civil 3D
    o 5000+ Feature and Label Styles supporting every Feature and Label Style 
    o In-depth documentation inside the templates and in every Style
    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 work and train project dataset
  
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• What is the Free Jump?

  Our 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.

  The Free Jump is a Civil 3D Template Solution for you to evaluate InstantOn Basic at no cost.

  The included Styles DO contain intentional plot time errors.

  The Free Jump does contain and share many of the Jump Platform resource files from our other Template Solutions. Not all the available resources from Instant On Basic are included. 

  The Free Jump is NOT a customization platform for the development of Civil 3D templates.

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• What are Jump Start Services?

   

    o Jump Start Service is our maintenance service product 
         - a low-cost annual fee per site location
    o Supports multiple Instant On Basic releases of AutoCAD Civil 3D
    o Includes The Jump Kits for multiple releases AutoCAD Civil 3D
    o Jump Start helps take the headache’s out of new release deployments and project upgrades 
    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 and materials
    o Discounts on Customization Services

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• What are the differences between the USCA Country Kit, Jump Station, and Jump Start?

  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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• Why is the Jump Different and New?

  Our innovative Jump Template Solutions are something new in the marketplace.

  All our Jump Platform Solution is 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 development 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 AutoCAD 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 maintenance issues involved.
  You also understand how difficult it is to recoup your capital investment. 
  Everyone faces 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.

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