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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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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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
There’s a burning question that concerns anyone about the latest and greatest Rehab Tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.1. It's about time I deliver an answer or two.
“Can the new Civil 3D 2018.1 Rehab tools be employed to create Complex Corridors to perform classic intersection rehab and reconstruction projects?”
To Build a Rehab Intersection
In…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2017
Tags rehab, Civil 3D 2018, Update, corridors, alignment, design, video, survey, figure, surface, cross section control, connected alignment
Autodesk says Multiple Dynamic Baselines (MDB) is a new software feature for Civil 3D 2018. Don’t you love that Autodesk acronym anachronism. Civil 3D’s new form of MDB is actually a synergistic capability that results from the combination of classic Corridor Baselines and Regions the other new features and tools…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 02, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Multiple Dynamic Baselines, feature line, offset alignment, connected alignment, video