In a recent post we discussed the term Bucket and the important concepts of mini-buckets.
This Bucket speak helps make Autodesk Civil 3D Features a bit easier to understand. We discovered that there are What, How, When, and Model mini-buckets in the Civil 3D Feature Bucket. There are important Where mini-buckets…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2024
Tags alignment, dynamic model, bucket, DREF, Project Management, project template, surface
The daily production mechanics of Autodesk Civil 3D’s interconnected and project-based Dynamic Model are indeed very powerful. These sometimes-convoluted mechanics can be downright overwhelming as well. We aren’t always so clear what that means at the very practical and daily work level.
We are all confronted with a daunting certainty in Civil 3D. The simple…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2024
Tags surface, alignment, parcel, dynamic model, bucket, training, DREF, Project Management
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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Tench Tilghman
May 30, 2024
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, Project Management, video, DREF, 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
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2024
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types