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New videos are added frequently. - Civil Training on the Web lists selected video training from others with comments.
These include important Autodesk product series of videos from published lists. - The Civil 3D Projects and Setup videos cover the ways to employ
Data Shortcuts and Data References - How Projects work in Civil 3D - Civil 3D Setup Checklists videos cover the details and mechanics of Civil 3D Setup
- Description Key Sets cover point display and customization
- In-depth Civil 3D training course listings cover vital production topics.
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Does the video content for one release still apply?
Absolutely!
Framework products run in multiple releases of Autodesk Civil 3D.
An Autodesk Civil 3D release may differ in some nuanced areas but the fundamentals and process mechanics that Civil 3D employs do not change much by design.
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Label Xrefed Civil 3D Alignments
Label Xrefed Civil 3D Alignments
How to Employ Civil 3D XREF Labels
There are a couple of tricks to making Labels work from Xrefs.
It would be nice to get Alignment Groups Labels to work for a host of annotative reasons.
This short video shows you how to employ the Civil 3D Label engine to lable Alignments that are in an XREF.
Quick Surfaces from a Survey Db
Quick Surfaces from a Survey Db
Surfaces in Minutes from a Survey Db
Survey Queries can be copied, edited, and imported from project to project.
It pays to create and maintain a Query Library in Civil 3D
This short video shows you how to employ Civil 3D Survey Db and External Survey Queries to generate a quality control surface in no time.
Civil 3D Point Group Standards
Civil 3D Point Group Standards
How to Export and Standardize Civil 3D Point Groups
Point Groups can be copied from drawing to drawing.
This short video shows you how to employ Civil 3D to do that and help standardize and improve Point Groups.