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Make Smaller PDF Files
Make Smaller PDF Files
11/7/2025
How to adjust the Civil 3D and AutoCAD default PDF settings saves in custom PC3 files to reduce PDF file size.
Visit the Civil Click This Do That YouTube Channel page.
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The other sneaky trick is to preplot all those resolved DREF, XREF, and even IREF files in our project drawings to the DWF format.
A preplot to DWF and the use of them as IREFs to produce deliverables substantially reduces both the plot time and file sizes at crunch time. Hoorah.
Faster Cul-De-Sac Grading
Faster Cul-De-Sac Grading
10/31/2025
Gil Cordie, from LJA, demos how to employ a Civil 3D Roundabout with a custom standards setup to quickly grade a residential cul-de-sac.
The standards set up work is not that difficult to sort out.
Visit the Gil Cordie YouTube page
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Gil demos a quicker way to grade the pavement sections of a typical cul-de-sac by using a Civil 3D Roundabout feature.
Most of the time we will be daylighting the resultant Corridor Surfaces to intermediate (temporary) design surfaces.
This is maybe not the first time we've seen this slick Civil 3D Roundabout trick.
Gil covers the necessary details and steps to reproduce it really well. A must watch!
Remember we can Data Shortcut these cul-de-sac Corridor parts within our Civil 3D project.
Set Alignment Design Speed Criteria
Set Alignment Design Speed Criteria
10/22/2025
Paul, a Micrographics Solutions tech, demos how to adjust the station-based Alignment Design Speed to remove Alignment Design Criteria warnings.
This short video review covers the basics.
Visit the Micrographics YouTube page
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Nice of Paul to also demo how we might edit the Alignment Design Criteria files themselves.
The video demos that Alignment Design Criteria in Civil 3D is another case where employing the exact start and end station values often create annoying calculation issues.
On a practical basis most jurisdictions in the US tend to require that the Design Speed actually changes before and after the start and end of curves and spirals.
If we take the time to set reasonable local Design Speeds when the Alignment is first created, we may get a jump on these details.