In Autodesk Civil 3D, we all know that the word template comes up time and time again. Heck. Out here in Civil 3D Land, we even have a Framework for Civil 3D product that we call Templates Only. Lots of customers say that Templates Only gets the essential Civil 3D Standards job done. Hoorah!
We all need many types of Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 27, 2024
Tags Corridor Templates, DREF, grading, Set of Assemblies, corridor, corridor surface, video, Assembly, Subassembly
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