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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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 Leverage the Civil 3D AREA Command

Leverage the Civil 3D AREA Command

6/2/2019

 

Stephen Walz shows how use the Area command to report individual and collected areas from select object in Civil 3D.
From the Stephen Walz YouTube Channel

Comments

AREA is a great quick and dirty way to get what you need without resorting to much more convoluted Civil 3D mechancis.

We Start the video a bit in to skip Stephen's infomercial and request for future topics to cover.

 

 Create a Civil 3D Surface from SHP

Create a Civil 3D Surface from SHP

5/26/2019

 

Stephen Walz shows how to use the CREATESURFACEFROMGISDATA command to import SHP data into a Civil 3D Surface.
From the Stephen Walz YouTube Channel

Comments

Ah. Those initial concept surfaces based on GIS data are sometimes a must do. They can certainly be combined with collected classic or aerial survey data.

We Start the video a bit in to skip Stephen's infomercial and request for future topics to cover.

If you root around in the Civil 3D videos on his channel, you may see parts of the Framework for Civil 3D at work.

 

 Create a Pipe Structure Style

Create a Pipe Structure Style

5/24/2019

 

Korey Gaddy, of TPM Solutions, details how to create a new Plan View Structure Style from a block in Civil 3D.
From the TPM Solutions YouTube Channel

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Korey presents the essentials of the creation of the Plan View of a Structure Style from a custom block well.
I suggest you employ raw AutoCAD to create the block and plan the name and storage location thoughtfully.
You actually do not want to include the Map coordinate system data in the WBLOCKed block.

This video is not a walk-through about the use of the Infrastructure Parts Editor in Civil 3D.