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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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 Use GIS SHP Data in Civil 3D

Use GIS SHP Data in Civil 3D

This is a four-part video series on Map 3D Style fundamentals and annotation mechanics.

You can employ the list control in the player to view any video in the playlist.

12/21/2017

 

Videos in the Playlist

Links to the original posts are included.

How to create a portable GIS data layer file in Civil 3D

Autodesk's Jerry Bartels demonstrates how to import a GIS file into your Civil 3D model and then stylize it to suit your needs.

How to use the Round function on GIS data labels in Civil 3D

Jerry shows the use of built-in functions or expressions to improve annotation

How to use the Concat function on GIS data labels

Jerry shows how to concatenate string data in labels

How to use the IF conditional function to analyse GIS data in Civil 3D

Jerry shows the basics of Map 3D Style themes based on conditionals

All videos from the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

 

 Layer States in Civil 3D

Layer States in Civil 3D

12/19/2017

 

Jerry Bartels of Autodesk demonstrates the use of the AutoCAD LAYERSTATESAVE command to save and restore Layer properties in Civil 3D.
Jerry also covers the upgrade of older Express Tools Layer States that may occur in upgrading a drawing to 2018 if you employed those previously.

From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

Comments

Frankly, if you don't employ Layer States Civil 3D is pretty much unusable. You certainly work to hard.
Jerry, says the following over simplicification in his post lead in, "Using these layers, we control how (or if) various parts of our model are displayed."

Actually, Civil 3D Style and Reference tools do the bulk of the information management control in Civil 3D and not just AutoCAD Layers.
The AutoCAD LM command and Layer States allows Style representations to practically function for production work in Civil 3D.
The Framework for Civil 3D includes Layer Spreadsheet Tools that help you build and maintain the Layer system and Layer States.

 

 Civil 3D 2018 Reference Templates

Civil 3D 2018 Reference Templates

11/28/2017

A Quick Overview of Civil 3D 2018 Reference Templates

 

JT McManmon an Application Engineer at CAD Technology Center reviews the reasons and basic capabilities of 2018 Reference Templates.

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Comments

A good basic overview. Some good questions answered too.
You might want to visit the Reference Template Settings in 2018.1 post that covers some of the more technical aspects of employing and implementing Civil 3D Reference Templates and tools.
The post also contains all the links to the entire Reference Templates series of posts.