Let’s face it - Surfaces play a huge role in civil engineering and survey work. When I train people in AutoCAD Civil 3D surfaces I frequently get this question:
“Is there any way for me to see what changes I’ve made to a Civil 3D Surface?”
First things first. Did you visualize the surface with at least 3 different Civil 3D Surface Style Tools?
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 01, 2017
Tags surface, Surface Style, analysis, Project Management, implementation, grading, corridors, video
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 introduces the capability of slope-controlled Offset Profile children based on their Offset Alignment parents. The new Civil 3D 2018 function also supports automatic slope transitions between regions within the Offset Profile from the new Offset Parameters tab in the Offset Profile box. People want to know…
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Tench Tilghman
May 04, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, offset profile, offset alignment, corridors, Assembly, design control, video, superelevation
Folk complain that AutoCAD Civil 3D is not really user friendly about Site Design. The complaint is true if you insist that site design in Civil 3D should be like it was for years in Land Desktop. Unfortunately, about the only thing Civil 3D has in common with Land Desktop is it’s use of similar but historically deceptive Ribbon names such as Surface, Grading, Parcel, and Alignment.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 10, 2016
Tags grading, site design, corridors, standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, corridor surface, surface
It’s Production Solution upgrade time. I chatted with a customer about his Jump Kit upgrade last week. He was particularly concerned that we were still supplying our additional Imperial Assembly Tool Palettes for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Yep. Even I forget to mention some of the way cool stuff that’s in there.
Thank you for customers!
AASHTO Assemblies
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 08, 2015
Tags road templates, corridors, Assembly, Subassembly, subassembly composer, AASHTO, Tool Palettes
There is no such thing as a nonlinear corridor in Civil 3D by definition. Is this then a mythic post? Are we talking about Corridors of a Third Kind? Not really. In AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 we cannot create Alignments that connect back to themselves like the snake eating its tail or the famous dragon in Chinese myth. We have all seen dog that would chase his tail until exhausted. If you want to build…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 23, 2014
Tags corridors, pond, parking lot, grading, alignment, offset aligment, widening