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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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 Copy Then Merge Corridor Regions

Copy Then Merge Corridor Regions

6/26/2025

 

Jeewana Meegahage demos and explains how to Copy and Merge Corridor Regions in Civil 3D.
These are essential Corridor edit skills that we must master.
Visit the JeewC3D YouTube page.

Comments

These useful Corridor editing commands can come in handy for real performance reasons.
Say we want to hash out the picky details in a short Region of a Corridor and then apply all the particular details to larger sections of the Corridor.

This Corridor method also works well as a divide and conquer strategy and/or as a replacement strategy to refine the Corridor design specifics as a project progresses.

 

 Convert Units Imperial to Metric or Metric to Imperial

Convert Units Imperial to Metric or Metric to Imperial

6/20/2025

 

Ryan Wunderlich, an IMAGINiT Technical Specialist, demystifies Imperial to Metric or Metric to Imperial DWG conversions in AutoCAD.
See the IMAGINiT YouTube Channel.

Comments

One of those important and nasty drawing conversion topics where what goes in AutoCAD on often creates hair pulling frustration and confusion.
Ryan explains the many issues and how to address the unexpected consequences well.
There are another couple of interesting How to do this and that topics addressed in the follow up Q&A session - e.g. How to work with table content in AutoCAD.

 

 Five Productivity Tips for Civil 3D

Five Productivity Tips for Civil 3D

6/19/2025

 

A quick review of 5 drafting productivity tips for Civil 3D in 5 minutes.
Most of these are very useful for a lot of common tasks but they are also way to easy to forget if we don't practice them.
Visit the Civil 3D Fix (Click This Do That) YouTube Channel page.

Comments

Short, sweat, and useful.