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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Civil 3D Property Set Data Tools
Civil 3D Property Set Data Tools
A series of videos from Alan Gilbert of Autodesk on the subject of Property Set implementation and integration in the Civil 3D interface.
Creating an Attribute List
4/14/2017
Creating an Attribute List
Alan explains the step by step on how to make a Property Set list a pull-down option list.
Link to Excel with Fields
4/28/2017
Link to Excel with Fields
Alan explains and details Property Set Data integration with Excel.
Export to Excel and Access
5/05/2017
Export to Excel and Access
Alan explains and details Property Set Data export mechanics to Excel and Access.
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All from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Tangent Slope Control By Superelevation
Tangent Slope Control By Superelevation
3/31/2017
Tangent Only Civil 3D Superelevation Tricks
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Alan Gilbert of Autodesk explains the step by step on how to manually build and employ Civil 3D Superelevation Control on a tangent for slope control of lanes, shoulders, and structures.
From Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
Pay attention that the subassemblies you employ are superelevation aware and set up properly as shown in the video.
Note that your tangent is faked as a curve in the Superelevation calculation tool. This is not initially intuitive.
This is a slick way to flatten lane slopes through intersections. You might want to document that you did this in the Alignment's description.
If there are previous Superelevation values on the Alignment make sure you clear them first. This is good practice even if you do not change the Super method Alignment Settings.
Anytime you have to redo a superelevation calculation it is probably good practice to start from scratch. Ok. Not always.
Note that in some older releases of Civil 3D, the software will hold onto earlier super values when you do not expect it.
See Civil 3D Superelevation Basics Overview and
Civil 3D Advanced Intersection Modeling for related video training
Corridor Section Material Volume Tables
Corridor Section Material Volume Tables
3/23/2017
How To Produce Corridor Section Material Volume Tables
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Jeff Bartels of Autodesk covers the basics of Section View Materials Volume Table mechanics for a design Corridor in Civil 3D.
He covers the details of the Table Style definition for a Material List Styles built in a previous video in this series.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
The video playlist of Jeff's Corridor Section Materials and Volume Series
The Sample Line publication Feature in Civil 3D can be a bit befuddling to the new Civil 3D user.
Why do I need all these styles to get a "simple" Material Volume report? Because Civil 3D needs to know exactly what you mean by that.
You want to do this work in a publishing drawing and not a project design drawing. Civil 3D can do the work from an XREF corridor model.
The Alignment is the Design Control Manager in Civil 3D. You will need one in the publication drawing to collect the Sample Line Group and its parts.
Even our most basic Templates Only product includes all the necessary Style tools prebuilt for you.