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    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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 LineTangent and LinePerpendicular

LineTangent and LinePerpendicular

10/10/2017

The Line From Tangent and Line From Perpendicular Civil 3D commands

Jerry Bartels of Autodesk demos the classic Line From Tangent - LINETANGENT and
Line From Perpendicular - LINEPERPENDICULAR tools in Civil 3D.
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.

Comments

If you're like me, you too forget about the oldies but goldies all the time and then bang your head on the keyboard.

Remind yourself to review the Ribbon Draw Panels when you install an Update.
See the Recorded Line Work in Civil 3D and
related posts for the most of many improved tools for segment creation.

Of course you don't need these to create tangent from alignment segments?

 

 Civil 3D Alignment Masking Basics

Civil 3D Alignment Masking Basics

9/29/2017

How Mask Properties Work on a Civil 3D Alignment Feature

Alan Gilbert of Autodesk demos the essential mechanics of Alignment Mask properties in Civil 3D.

Video from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

 

 Employ Public Aerial Imagery in Civil 3D

Employ Public Aerial Imagery in Civil 3D

9/1/2017

How to find and employ free public aerial imagery in Civil 3D

Autodesk's Alan Gilbert explains how you might search for, download, and employ aerial imagery from multiple sources in Civil 3D.
Alan covers the basic imagery functionality with and without Raster Design installed. In other words, Alan also covers the Map 3D FDO (open source) Raster import method as well.

Video from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

See Alan's previous post on Bing Map Images with Assumed Coordinates

Comments

The methods discussed here require that you download the raster images. I suggest you employ a network project location.

Some of the public web resources may employ a published WMS web service. There are raster versions of this available from some ERSI sites and others. This data will load with the Map FDO WMS open source driver instead.
Sorry. That's a bit confusing and frustrating if you don't pay carefull attention to the specifics of the public data source.

Best as I can tell Autodesk seems to have stopped all internal development for any ESRI ArcGIS data sources above 10 and now relies only on the open source FDO drivers.