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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.
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Five Drafting Tips in 5 Minutes
Five Drafting Tips in 5 Minutes
7/24/2025
Some nifty and not so simple drafting tips and tools in Civil 3D in just 5 minutes.
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How to love and hate edits with Grips and DYN.
Learn solid and useful Hatch hacks.
Other useful but often forgotten settings and commands in Civil 3D.
Add Misc Crossings to Profile Views
Add Misc Crossings to Profile Views
7/24/2025
How to display miscellaneous crossing objects with Crossing Markers to a Civil 3D Profile View.
This quick walkthrough shows how to create and edit a Crossing Marker Style to annotate a crossing Feature Line with elevations onto a Profile View.
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It is not always necessary to employ a Pipe Network or Pipe Run with Structures to display appropriate graphics and/or generate Labels in our Profile and Section Views in Civil 3D.
A simple AutoCAD block that is stretched to the Profile View vertical scale is used in the Crossing Marker Style.
Example Crossing Marker Label Styles are shown but their construction is not covered here.
Multiple Object Label Styles
Multiple Object Label Styles
7/23/2025
How to employ the Reference Text capabilities of the Civil 3D Label Style to generate label data from multiple Civil 3D Features.
Covers the essentials of the Reference Text component that is supported by many Civil 3D Feature Label Styles.
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This is a vital Civil 3D Label Style create and edit task.
Almost every Civil 3D deliverable drawing will probably include a few of these useful Label Styles.
The formatting gets tiresome without some standardized Reference Text components in your Label Style library.
Reference Text components work to generate Label data from both DREF and XREF sources.
Yes. Reference Text components generate those pesky question marks that appear when the named reference is lost.