Lots of folks in Civil 3D Land are fully committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. There’s nothing wrong with that. The Grading Design by Feature Line Heuristic is well understood and employed by most civil engineering and survey professionals. Civil 3D is loaded with useful practical commands and Ribbon tools to help…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 30, 2024
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, Project Management, video, DREF, corridors, Multiple Baseline Corridors
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment; its child Profiles; its child Offset Alignments; their slope-controlled Offset Profiles; Widenings; Intersections; Curb Return Alignments; and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 16, 2024
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization
Autodesk officially released Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 and the related Civil Infrastructure 2025 group of products which include: Project Explorer 2025, Grading Optimization 2025, Subassembly Composer 2025, the Infrastructure Parts Editor, Autodesk Vehicle Tracking 2025,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 02, 2024
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2025, Project Explorer, Grading Optimization, subassembly composer, Infraworks
Are Civil 3D Corridors employed to produce Site Design grading solutions worth the small extra efforts we need to make in our design control details? If we want more adaptive and flexible options available in our Autodesk Civil 3D site design projects, the answer is pretty obvious.
Design Beyond the Breaklines
We all know that the classic Feature…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 07, 2024
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, Subassembly, Frequency, baseline, region, Civil 3D, video
We can employ Corridors to solve significant and common grading site design problems in Autodesk Civil 3D. We do need to acquire some skill and practice with Corridor design workflows. Corridor design methodology can be more productive than the classic Feature Lines only approach. After all, Corridors do produce and manage related Feature Lines in bunches.
That nifty trick alone says we…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 29, 2024
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, Subassembly, Frequency, baseline, region, Civil 3D, video