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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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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.
Band Label Superimposed Profiles
Band Label Superimposed Profiles
8/16/2017
How we can add more Profile bands to label superimposed profiles in a Profile View.
One way to Band Style Label Superimposed Profiles in a Profile View
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk delivers a bad and nasty edit hack of Band Styles in a Profile View.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
See the previous and related video post
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I was sorely tempted not to publish this video. Sorry. Jeff.
Everything beyond the most basic Band Style edit mechanics is
a great example of what NOT to do and How to execute that poorly.
The simple fact you'd show people ancient Simplex.SHX font AutoCAD ONLY symbol inserts in a Label Style is bad practice. No Unicode Support = print problems.
You could have easily added components to a Copy of the initial Band Style, but chose to mash up an overlayed second band is hard to justify.
OK. You could argue the second hidden band would show nothing if used again without any connected Profiles.
From a CAD Management and Civil 3D User QAQC consistency follow up perspective, the whole thing is demonstrably horrible.
The smart Civil 3D user take away...
How to find the good in the bad and ugly.
When you have to do repeated and similar edits in the Civil 3D Text Composer in any Label Style have an ASCII text editor open too.
A list of NCS and ISO Arial True Type Unicode character strings of important symbols is a critical resource if you ever have to publish to another CAD or GIS format.
Here's the Our Special Friends have Character post with a character symbol list and how to get more.
Create Multiple Profiles in a Profile View
Create Multiple Profiles in a Profile View
8/14/2017
Civil 3D makes it easy to display as many profiles as you like in a Profile View.
How to Superimpose Multiple Profiles in a Profile View
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk covers both static and dynmanic methods to get multiple superimposed profiles in a Profile View.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.and the Civil Immersion blog.
See the related video post follow up.
Comments
Jeff's good demo of the current Superimpose mechanics exposes some old and sloppy "fix it to create a feature" code in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
If its about the Civil 3D data behind, we should be able to create a superimposed Profile of at least any related child Alignments without the extra temporary stuff.
The fact you have to have a temporary Profile View to insert a superimposed profile of a formal Offset Alignment Profile is absurd at this point.