Our exploration of an all-too-common Turn Lane and Median Corridor design reveals that we have skills and best practices to learn to successfully navigate Complex Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D.
Repetitive and simple Civil 3D user actions can dramatically affect the amount of work required and the quality and substance of the Civil 3D Corridor results accomplished.…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 21, 2021
Tags Civil 3D, Corridors, corridor surface, grading, feature line, Frequency, baseline, region, video
How frequently do our civil engineering project’s design challenges in Autodesk Civil 3D encounter the Complex Corridor?
For the Feature Line Only crowd – Those who choose to construct design surfaces with Civil 3D Feature Line or Grading methodologies - the answer is almost never. Whoyah?
The breakline-based, or linear, classic design grading process…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 16, 2021
Tags corridor, Frequency, Drive, feature line, video, baseline, region, grading, DREF, Set of Assemblies
Autodesk Civil 3D is loaded with useful and powerful tools to help us create, edit, and manage Complex Corridors. Whether the Corridor design addresses a roadway or a site grading design condition, Design Visualization becomes a significant Civil 3D user issue for any Multiple Baseline Corridor (MBC).
Complex Corridors include a host of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 09, 2021
Tags Multiple Baseline Corridors, Drive, corridor surface, surface, Code Set Styles, Surface Style, feature line, survey figure, video
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
This week Autodesk released a major Update 6 for Civil 3D 2020. The Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.6 Update includes updated Civil 3D features, performance enhancements, significant fixes for many Civil 3D issues, and many important API enhancements for Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.
The Civil 3D 2020.6 Update is also a one stop shop Update improvement for Civil 3D 2020.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 22, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, Batch Save, Release 8, feature line, data shortcuts, Data Shortcut Editor, Jump Kit, Templates Only