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Useful Basic Civil Training from Civil 3D Experts and Consultants

    Civil 3D experts and consultants produce a wide range of video content.
    This pages features videos about some basic tasks in Civil 3D.
    Many of these videos are very short. Many may include tips and tricks and yet all include useful Civil 3D basics.

    Please visit included links to the original postings. Those may contain details not included here for the sake of brevity.


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 Feature Line and Civil 3D Grading Basics

Feature Line and Civil 3D Grading Basics

3/2/2020

 

Seth Cohen of Digital Drafting Systems Inc walks through Civil 3D Feature Line and Grading Object Basics with some handy Tips and Tricks.
From the Digital Drafting Systems Inc YouTube Channel.

Comments

Seth does a great high-speed job of covering some of the significant and nuanced production issues for employing Feature Lines and Gradings in Civil 3D.

 Surface Data Clips in Civil 3D

Surface Data Clips in Civil 3D

2/14/2020

 

Bryant Quinney, a Senior Application Expert for IMAGINiT, walks through what a Civil 3D Surface Data Clip type does and the Data Clip performance and size benefits.
Visit the IMAGINiT YouTube page

Comments

Note that the shape and locations of the nodes on the polyline boundary matter to the data included and processed in the clipped DTM model result.

 

 Add a Turn Lane to a Corridor

Add a Turn Lane to a Corridor

12/27/2019

 

Korey Gaddy, of TPM Solutions, walks through simple turn lane mechanics for a driveway that employs Feature Line Corridor targets.
From the TPM Solutions YouTube Channel

Comments

Korey presents the essentials of the Civil 3D Corridor mechanics to use Feature Line targets for a Lane widening.
Also covered very briefly is how to employ the Intersection Wizard in a single pass to add that to a driveway or roadway corridor.

There are reasons you might want to do this work with Features Line targets. However, a bettter step-by-step use of the Intersection Wizard and Offset Alignments, Offset Profiles, and Widenings will produce a more managed and flexible design results.
See the Civil 3D Intersections and Corridors page with the videos and the linked posts for more details.