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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Dynamic Grading in Civil 3D
Dynamic Grading in Civil 3D
8/09/2017
Methods to Employ Smarter Feature Lines in Civil 3D 2018
Autodesk's John Sayre rips through multiple solutions for everyday grading issues that come up in many site projects.
Feature Line Corridors are employed to create more dynamic Retaining walls and Feature Line based parking lot grading is covered.
This webinar video shows the benefit of a dynamic model based on Feature Lines by reducing complexity and minimizing the effort of rework changes.
This is a good primer on Feature Line centric grading solutions.
From the Autodesk Infraworks YouTude Channel
Comments
John always comes up with a few new and important things I didn't think of the first time. You got to love that.
Like everyone else I always forget the create Feature Line Transistion option. Dooh!
Code Set Styles Explained
Code Set Styles Explained
6/21/2017
Brian Morse from CADDesk Consulting did this training video for FDOT. It covers Code Set Styles in Civil 3D in good detail.
From the FDOT YouTube channel
You may want to watch this from YouTube so you can employ the timeline links from the description there.
Civil 3D Code Set Styles
Summary with Timeline
The timeline below is published with the video which allows you to skip to the bookmarks in the video.
An overview of the Code Set Style.
Topic covered: What are Code Set Styles, Editing and Creating styles, Changing Styles, Styles in the Section Editor
Table of Contents:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 03:25 - Applying Render Materials to Corridors
- 05:59 - Planimetric Code Set Style
- 17:35 - Section Viewer
- 40:09 - Shape Codes for Material Volumes
This Civil 3D Code Set Style post also covers the importance and usage of Code Set Styles really well in written form.
Everyone who employs Civil 3D needs to know the Four Things a Code Set Style Does.
Corridor Slope Benches
Corridor Slope Benches
6/9/2017
This is part one of a multi-video series
Corridor Slope Benching with Stock Subassemblies
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Alan explains and shows the classic stock subassembly methods to create sloped benches in a corridor.
If you want to employ repeating conditionals, that is also covered well in a short video.
Most folks are not really aware of neat trick of coping subassemblies to repeat things when you employ conditionals.
Corridor Slope Benching Using Subassembly Composer
6/16/2017
This is part two of a multi-video series
Corridor Slope Benching with Subassembly Composer
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Alan covers the Subassembly Composer basic geometry logic for the cut condition benching.
Not really complete but you get the core concepts in a short video.
See the follow up Subassembly Composer Logic videos for more discussions.
Videos from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.