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 2017 Surface Creation
Civil 3D 2017 Surface Creation
3/30/2017
Doug Medley of the FDOT Civil 3D support group covers Civil 3D Surface Creation, Editing, and Management in a project context.
Advanced topics like LANDXML surface creations and Microstation GEOPACK TIN conversions with Autodesk Civil 3D Extension tools are covered.
The essentials of surface edits are also detailed with a good review of the Edit stack.
From the FDOT YouTube channel
A Primer on Better Civil 3D Surface Creation
See the previous Feature Line Grading video
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Get over the unique language of FDOT's process and drawing creation. This is an excellent and detailed how to of surface creation.
Note the repeated and consistent process steps to create surfaces, publish the result surface into LandXML (to freeze it), and share that in a project context.
Doug also covers surface and Survey data imports of LandXML data which is not often covered well in the public domain.
Need I point out that FDOT employs multiple different types of inegrated Model Templates for different tasks inside the project context.
The Framework for Civil 3D allows you to easily create the same and manage the Style tools together.
Grade with Feature Lines
Grade with Feature Lines
3/8/2017
Brian Morse from CADDesk Consulting did this training video for FDOT. It covers Grading from Feature lines 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.
Grading and Feature Line Ditch Creation
See the follow up Surface Creation video
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 process of creating Gradings using Feature Lines and how Manipulating the Feature Line elevations effects the Surface, also will show how to target corridor feature lines. Included in this session is; Grading Criteria, Surface Creation, Feature Line Editing, Raising/Lowering Surface, Grading Feature Lines, and Corridor Feature Lines.
Table of Contents:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 03:37 - Using Inquiry Tool
- 10:24 - Extracting data from Drawing Objects
- 14:32 - Converting Objects to Feature Lines
- 22:41 - Creating Offset Alignments
- 26:00 - Creating a Surface Profile
- 40:49 - Feature Line from Offset Alignment
- 44:48 - Editing a Feature Line
- 46:28 - Grading the Ditch
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.