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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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Create a Surface from GIS Data
Create a Surface from GIS Data
7/11/2017
You need a quick (and probably dirty) Civil 3D surface from an available GIS data source.
Create a Civil 3D Surface from external GIS Data
Jerry Bartels of Autodesk briefly demos the basics of the Civil 3D CreateSurfaceFromGISData command.
In case you miss it in the video the command is in Home Ribbon>>Create Ground Data panel>>Surfaces drop down>>Create a Surface from GIS Data
Jerry employs a file based data source (a SHP file) in this example.
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
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Much public ERSI GIS data is typically published in Lat Long projections and will indeed require coordinate system assignment and the tranformation to the local state plane projection in your drawing. You are assigning the coordinate system to the source!
Pay careful attention where you store the Data Mapping file. Should it be in a project location?
If you have data access to an actual GIS database source and not just a simple SHP file structure
the login page of the wizard will make sense and perhaps present the most difficulty.
See the Civil 3D Help for the CreateSurfaceFromGISData command if you require access to an ESRI ArcSDE data source.
There are additional unmentioned install requirements.
Intersection Between Two Civil 3D Surfaces
Intersection Between Two Civil 3D Surfaces
6/8/2017
Minimum Distance Between Surfaces Tool
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk demos how to find the 3D polyline(s) intersection of two Civil 3D surfaces.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
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More about surface comparsion analytics can be seen in Surface Compare in Civil 3D
Civil 3D Geolocation By Address
Civil 3D Geolocation By Address
5/30/2017
You want to set up a drawing to a site location. You have a coordinate system and a postal address.
How Zoom to a Geolocation By Address in Civil 3D
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Jerry Bartels of Autodesk details the mechanics of how to use a combination of
AutoCAD and Civil 3D tools and properties to set up a Civil 3D drawing
and zoom to a site location by address.
A cool trick to employ the AutoCAD GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command and the Map option this way!
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
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Now if you want to set up multiple Autodesk applications like Revit and Infraworks to also share this point,
You need a couple of extra free tools. Watch this Shared Reference Points Across Products video by John Sayre that explains the how to in detail.