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
At times I joke a bit about the Feature Lines Only design crowd in Civil 3D. I do this to contrast classic and manual Feature Line construction and manipulation methods with the advantages of managed Corridor Design methodologies that can produce multiple and controlled Feature Lines on demand. This is not a binary choice. Obviously, civil engineering folks need…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 16, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, segment, node, point, surface, alignment, optimization, optionality, profile, corridor, parcel, parcel segment, feature line
We all have things we want changed in Civil 3D. If you live and work in Civil 3D Land, you probably have more than a few Civil 3D Wish List items. I do. You do too. Some of those whines and moans are related to things Civil 3D cannot do yet. Others to the stuff Civil 3D cannot do very well from our perspective.
How we choose to work habitually matters significantly…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 11, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, Groundforce, alignment, offset alignment, profile, offset profile, superelevation, feature line, optionality, optimization, surface, grading
What are the most important features in Civil 3D? Autodesk has a different answer to that question for every new release of Civil 3D and each new Update for Civil 3D. Autodesk wants to answer the Features and Benefits sales and marketing questions. They do sell us software after all. Maybe whatever is the hot new Autodesk thing this time around floats your boat?…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 04, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, alignment, profile, corridor, feature line, surface, widening, landxml, video