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
Autodesk recently released an Update for Civil 3D 2024. The Autodesk Civil 3D 2024.4 Update includes new workflow Enhancements and performance upgrades for Corridor workflows and a number of important fixes to the Civil 3D code.
The Corridor workflow improvements include the ability both Add and edit selected multiple Alignment/Profile pairs and/or Features…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 22, 2024
Tags Civil 3D 2024, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, 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
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 21, 2024
Tags corridor, alignment, baseline, Multiple Dynamic Baselines, region, site design, Assembly, intersection, video
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