Autodesk made some quiet and undocumented changes to the default Corridor properties in the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2021.1 Update. The Civil 3D 2021.1 Update’s new separate Inside and Outside Corridor Bowtie Settings for both Tangent and Arcs corner intersection resolutions. These changes can and do affect the default corner resolution behavior in Corridor Baseline…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 29, 2020
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, baseline, region, video, design control, feature line, alignment, profile, bowties
Over the summer we discussed the hot topic of Site Grading with Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D in a series of posts. Most in-depth posts include instructive and detailed instructional videos to allow folks the Civil 3D Land see and learn how to make the jump from Feature Lines Only grading design workflows and processes to productive Civil 3D Corridor engine method…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 22, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Project Explorer, feature line, corridor, surface, video, Upgrade, Update, Release 8
Many folks in Civil 3D Land initially don’t, won’t, or cannot see the benefits of Civil 3D Corridor tools in civil engineering site grading projects. History matters. A Site grading design is basically an annotated finished grade Surface, right? Habit matters. Why do I need all that silly, complicated Corridor stuff and hassle for? Data management…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 10, 2020
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, baseline, region, video, design control, site, feature line, alignment, profile
Autodesk purchased the ProjectExplorer for Civil 3D product back in mid-April. I said at that time this would/could be one of the best things Autodesk has done for Civil 3D in quite a while. The product went up somewhere into orbit and it just splashed down.
The new Autodesk Project Explorer for Civil 3D extension hit the street for AEC Collection…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 20, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Project Explorer, PE, Corridors, Assembly, Subassembly, alignment, feature line, point group, sample lines, profile, video
Autodesk released Update 1 for Autodesk Civil 3D 2021. The Civil 3D 2021.1 Update arrived with the unusual group of suspects and official the new way cool Project Explorer for Civil 3D extension. I haven’t managed to locate a download of the public build for Project Explorer yet, but that may change by the time this post is published.
The…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 18, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Update, Upgrade, Connector, feature line, corridor, Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, video, Project Explorer