Tips from Experts

Civil 3D Corridor Frequencies

5/13/2023

Jeewana Meegahage shows and explains the details of Civil 3D Corridor Frequency methods and mechanics.
Of course this takes a bit, but the effort is worth the time to produce better Civil 3D Corridors faster.
Visit the JeewC3D YouTube page.

Comments

The video delivers a great walkthrough demo to help us better understand Corridor Frequencies.
The Excel trick to add multiple special Station Frequencies to a Region is covered near the end. Hoorah.
This trick also works from a line by line text file. A spreadsheet makes it easy if we need to calculate them.

Collaborate Civil 3D Content at Scale

4/28/2023

Stephen Walz walks through a range of accessible software tools to allow us to collaborate with others about Civil 3D content.
The video demos Autodesk Infraworks, Autodesk Navisworks, Speckle, and Power BI integrations.
Visit the Stephen Walz YouTube page.

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From the simple to the simply terrifying Stephen delivers his usual great job at covering high end content for Civil 3D users.

Stephen has a new Civil 3D book out - Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 Start to Finish

Civil 3D Line Labels with Expressions

4/5/2023

Mark Schnesk of Seiler Design Solutions demonstates how to employ Expressions to customize General Line Label Styles in Civil 3D.
Visit the Seiler Design Solutions YouTube page
See the Seiler Design Solutions blog.

Comments

A well delivered walkthrough of the classic Civil 3D Expression trick that employs zero Height properties to control label component visibility.
Expressions in Civil 3D are powerful and very useful.
Remember to store, edit, and move around Expressions inside components in an ALWAYS IMPORT Style.

See the Framework's Label Style Expression Sets video pages for details.