This August has been busy and sometimes downright hectic. Funny thing is, I don’t feel like I accomplished much which is really silly. It must be a post-Olympic hangover. Too much highly visible amazing personal and team achievement followed too many endless ads from the same corporations can do that to you. No single TV network should ever be allowed to do the Olympics again.
If the tiny nation of Fiji can win an Olympic Gold, anything is possible. I shouldn’t feel so bad. After the usual rasher of Autodesk summer Service Packs we produced new builds of Release 7 of the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 and 2016 and did that in no time. It is a matter of focus.
You probably also noticed that I’ve been discovered talking to the wall again. This seems to be something surviving AutoCAD Civil 3D experts are now required to do. There is an august plethora of new videos on the website. I always wanted to use the phrase “august plethora” in a blog post. A lots of gold thing. Now I got that writer-craft thing is done. I can check it off my bucket list (grin). I already hiked over My Whitney the wrong way in bare feet and shorts just to do it. I admit that was in another more extreme lifetime. Trust me. It still counts.
Serious Civil 3D Content
A brief summary of August's website additions and updates:
- New product builds for all products for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017
- New Framework Previews videos page
- Updated many more Overview Videos for Release 7
- New Install Videos and updates to the Installation Video pages for Release 7 in Windows 10
- Updated Framework for Release 7 install docs now available on product download pages
- Additions to the Book of Alignments - see Civil 3D Alignments in Documentation and Help
- Many Video additions to the Civil Training on the Web video training section
- Added a new Civil 3D Basics section to Civil Training on the Web
- Added a new Civil 3D Exports section to Documentation and Help
- Added links to in-depth Civil 3D video traininng courses on the web
- Website security updates
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Recent Featured Video Training
Create Corridor with Intersection in Civil 3D
Create Corridor with Intersection in Civil 3D
10/3/2023
A CAD Masters Civil 3D tech and trainer reviews and demos how to employ the Insection Wizard in a Civil 3D Corridor.
See the CAD Masters YouTube Channel.
Comments
Nice to see a good intermediate training video about the use of the Civil 3D Intersection Wizard.
Most recent intesection demos employ a Connected Alignment based workflow.
It is not necessary to create new a separate Offset Alignments in the Intersection Wizard.
Just select Yes to use an existing Alignment or Profile then select the named design control that you created earlier.
It is also a good idea to create and manage Civil 3D Assembly Sets in separate library drawings from a known library location.
Jump Kit ships with multiple AASHTO compliant Assembly Sets in an easy to customize structured library. Imagine that.
A Named UCS and View for Grading in Civil 3D
A Named UCS and View for Grading in Civil 3D
9/22/2023
Paul, a Micrographics Solutions tech, demos how to employ a Named UCS, a Named View, and Viewport configuration to set up for design in Civil 3D 2024.
Visit the Micrographics YouTube page
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All this important AutoCAD View setup work seems unnessary unitl we realize the work also translates into quicker and easier View setups in the plotted Viewports in our production Layouts.
The AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager looks for defined Named Views in our Project drawings. Imagine that.
Pay careful attention to all the many properties that we can save with a Named View in AutoCAD.
We save the annotative scale. Do we want to save the Layer State or not?