Any exhaustive discussion about the large topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the Civil 3D functional and workflow…
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 15, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types
Alignments in Autodesk Civil 3D have Types. Whoopie. No Biggie. If we get the Type wrong when we create the Alignment, 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 only can be built on creation. Some may be destroyed by a manual change of Alignment Type.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 01, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, Alignment Style, intersection, connected alignment, Project Explorer
The Autodesk Civil 3D Alignment Feature altered, and continues to alter, how civil engineers and survey professionals and their organizations employ Civil 3D in production. Autodesk invests heavily in the technology surrounding the many Alignment-based tools in Civil 3D. The many capabilities and properties of the Alignment make the Alignment the core Feature in…
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Tench Tilghman
May 27, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, naming conventions, Name Template
In Civil 3D Land we hear this compliant all too often. I believe that it is safe to say that I have a healthy respect for the complexity of AutoCAD Civil 3D. Needless to say the Framework for Civil 3D is deep, detailed, and robust because all of that is required. This is a good capability thing in the end, but bad training news in the beginning.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 11, 2016
Tags WATT, alignment, alignment type, alignment direction, Alignment Style, annotation, video
“What do I need to know about Alignments in AutoCAD Civil 3D?”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…”
“Whoa. How about the short version?”
Thus is created The Civil 3D Book of Alignments.
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Sorry. Yes, the title has to be plural. To make Alignments singular would be puerile and tangential.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 23, 2016
Tags alignment, alignment direction, Alignment Style, alignment type, video