Any exhaustive discussion about the big topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the hopefully, familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D’s Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the essential and functional…
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Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2024
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types
Before Autodesk University I posted about how to Stop the Intersection Wizard to create multiple interconnected Intersections in Civil 3D. Did you miss it? Our goal there was a Complex Corridor – a related and interconnected corridor model built and managed in part by Intersections.
I like to call the Intersection the Design Control Supervisor…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 22, 2016
Tags intersection, corridor, alignment, horizontal control, vertical control, cross section control, video
The Wizard is an operative fact in modern software. Autodesk programmers love to employ the beasts. Wizards do make workflow and user data collection easier to manage. AutoCAD Civil 3D has more than a few mission critical ones.
The current Civil 3D publication methodology based on Alignments is very wizard centric. Our discussions of many details of that became part of our Civil…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 08, 2016
Tags alignment, intersection, horizontal control, vertical control, cross section control, video
Software hopefully grows more intuitive. AutoCAD Civil 3D’s interface is better at it than the not so model-based software of the past. Features must behave in a more consistent and predictable way by definition. However “intuitive” means different things to different people. A change of context can be befuddling to the best of us.
We Don't Know When to Look for Directions
I ran…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 02, 2012
Tags alignment, alignment direction, vector, horizontal control, vertical control, tangents, free curve
AutoCAD Civil 3D allows us to make new and More useful data out of nearly nothing.
This is what better and functional civil engineering design software should do.
The Common "I Need Control" Problem
We need to create some basic and MANAGABLE horizontal and vertical control for a roadway repavement, widening, or pipeline project. All we've got at the moment is some survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2011
Tags alignment, best fit, horizontal control