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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Feature Line Mid-Ordinate Distance in Civil 3D
Feature Line Mid-Ordinate Distance in Civil 3D
3/15/2023
Nate Philbrick explains and shows how Feature Line Mid-Ordinate Distance affects curves in breaklines added to Surfaces in Civil 3D.
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This is a part of a multiple video demo of the classic Feature Lines Only mechanics to grade the top surface of parking lot in Civil 3D.
Civil 3D DTM surface models by definition do not support curves. How much detail is suitable for the task at hand?
This simple demonstration of basic breakline edit reality and functionality begs we ask the what level of detail is suitable question not just the classic civil/survey accuracy and precision ones.
Speaking of curve balls to the unwary...
Nick's Feature Lines were intentionally built with the Stepped Offset Tool. The Feature Line data points are effectively parallel. We may not always be so lucky.
- Grade Parking Lot Flowlines from a Feature Line
- Parking Lot Curbs from Offset Feature Lines
- Feature Line Mid-Ordinate Distance in Civil 3D
Build Dynamic Knuckles in Civil 3D
Build Dynamic Knuckles in Civil 3D
3/08/2023
The CADiot Savant demos how to employ Civil 3D Connected Alignments and Feature Lines to build dynamic knuckle intersection solutions in Civil 3D.
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Comments
The use of 2018+ Connected Alignments and Profile pairs in Corridors is a significant design method improvement in Civil 3D.
Mixing DREF design control with drawing design control will indeed cause Connected Alignment update issues.
We can employ all DREF design control in Corridors and produce great results.
That does mean we edit that design control in the design control data shortcut drawing(s).
Constructing our Corridor Baselines with partial cross sections rather the full cross sections has many other significant design advantages.
See our Blog Posts video page for more details about that.
Parking Lot Curbs from Offset Feature Lines
Parking Lot Curbs from Offset Feature Lines
3/9/2023
Nate Philbrick demos how to use the Stepped Offset Feature Line command in Civil 3D to create Features Lines for curb structures in a Parking Lot.
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Comments
This is a part of a multiple video demo of the classic Feature Lines Only mechanics to grade the top surface of parking lot in Civil 3D.
Both new and carefully named Feature Lines are quickly produced from the Flowline. A Civil 3D Grading is not employed to produce the curb structure.
We may not always be so lucky to create successful offset Feature Lines from complex Feature Line geometry. We may have to divide and conquer.
Yes. We could emloy the flowline Feature Line as the Baseline for a Corrridor with an Assembly with a Curb subassembly.
- Grade Parking Lot Flowlines from a Feature Line
- Parking Lot Curbs from Offset Feature Lines
- Feature Line Mid-Ordinate Distance in Civil 3D