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Inside the Corridor Feature we Autodesk Civil 3D users get better horizontal, vertical, and cross section control,  better design round trips, more design control options, better project-based quality control, and more forms of data output. This significant list of production benefits makes the small amount of extra work that is required to employ a Corridor to create our civil…

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What exactly does an Alignment do in Autodesk Civil 3D? Whoa. Now that’s a loaded question. It might be the most mission critical question we should ask about the Alignment in Civil 3D. The meaning of that old, familiar word – Alignment – is more sophisticated and nuanced these days. We need to align our thinking with the actual Civil 3D functional realities.

If…

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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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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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Alignments in Autodesk Civil 3D have Types. Hoorah. If we get the Alignment Type wrong when we create the Alignment, No Biggie, we can change the Type? Errr. Well sort of and it depends. This is Civil 3D. Some Civil 3D Feature Properties and Parent and Child relationship properties can only be built on creation. Some relationships or properties…

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