Autodesk Civil 3D Videos
Useful Civil 3D Training from public website sources
Autodesk staff, Autodesk Reseller staff, and consultants produce a wide range of video content. Some is product sales demo, but a lot of the staff and/or consultant recordings, lists, and channels include useful application training and helpful tips and tricks for Infrastructure Design products.
Content that is significant video training is listed here.
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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
Comments
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.
Shared Coordinates in Revit Civil 3D and ACC
Shared Coordinates in Revit Civil 3D and ACC
8/8/2025
Matt Wunch demos the mechanics and details of how to employ Shared Coordinates in Revit, Civil 3D, the Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), and Autodesk Docs.
From the Matt Wunch YouTube channel.
Comments
A very useful tutorial video walkthorough of the Shared Coordinates mechanics, details, and tricks for Revit, Civil 3D, and the Autodesk Cloud.
Matt covers both the basics and the important nuances of sometimes missed tricky bits of Shared Coordinates.
He covers how to synch multiple Revit building models into a single Civil 3D Site plan and even how to synch one model multiple times into a subdivision plan.
Download and Build a USGS DEM Surface
Download and Build a USGS DEM Surface
5/29/2025
Christopher Fugitt demos one method of how to download and build a USGS DEM Surface in Civil 3D.
See the @C3DReminders YouTube Channel
Comments
Be careful to size the area of interest appropriately and do not ignore the coordinate system details.
It is easy to produce a very large surface from the public USGS DEM datasets.
The Civil 3D 2026+ release performs better with larger surfaces.
Civil 3D 2026+ also allows us to further clip the surface when it is DREFed into other drawings.