We recently discussed crucial concepts and newer workflows to produce better Managed Site Grading solutions inside Autodesk Civil 3D. We employed some excellent How To videos from other Civil 3D experts to clarify how we all can couple our previous Feature Lines Only method and practice with valuable new Civil 3D Corridor skills and workflows…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 15, 2023
Tags Multiple Baseline Corridors, Multiple Dynamic Baselines, Corridors, intersection, knuckles, connected alignment, connected profile, video
Autodesk made significant improvements in the initial release of Civil 3D 2022 to enhance Connected Alignments to better handle the complex geometries of ramps and interchanges. New horizontal Alignment Curve Group combinations were added to support combinations of spirals, curves, and reverse spirals. We can now create Connected Alignments…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 24, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2022, connected alignment, connected profile, DREF, intersection, video, design control, Project Management
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment, its child Profiles, child Offset Alignments, their slope-controlled Profiles, Curb Return Alignments and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins, and Intersections. Sooner or later, we discover that…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 24, 2021
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization
What exactly does an Alignment do in Autodesk Civil 3D? That’s a loaded question. That may be the most mission critical question we can ask about the Alignment in Civil 3D. The familiar word – Alignment – is more sophisticated and nuanced in meaning these days. We certainly need to align our thinking with the Civil 3D functional realities.
If we have employed old-school,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 03, 2021
Tags design control, alignment, alignment direction, offset alignment, connected alignment, offset profile, profile, pipe network, pressure pipe network, superelevation, plan production tool
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.
Recall…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 01, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, Alignment Style, intersection, connected alignment, Project Explorer