Tips from Experts Video Training
Useful Video Training Tips from Experts
The Civil Experts produce a wide range of Tips video content.
Content that is of significant benefit is listed here.
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Faster Parking Lots from Widenings
Faster Parking Lots from Widenings
5/28/2020
Jim Coppinger of ZenTek Consultants explains how to inventively employ Offset Alignments and Widenings to perform parking lot layout design in Civil 3D.
From the ZenTek Consultants YouTube Channel.
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Old school AutoCAD Design layout with polylines, line, and arcs is not only tedious it is far less flexible than the well-developed intermediate and advanced skills for Alignments and their important children in Civil 3D.
This is the best short video I've seen in a long while than makes this excellent point about Civil 3D functionality that often gets lost to our old work habits. Thanks Jim. You made my day.
We do have to practice at these Civil 3D create and edit skills to get good at them. Grips skill and other edit skills do not come by seeing but by doing.
The positive results will be more design optionality and new and improved design heuristics.
Power Grips and Civil 3D
Power Grips and Civil 3D
5/21/2020
Autodesk's Jeff Bartels covers a detailed review of the Grips tool functionalities in Civil 3D and AutoCAD.
See the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
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You will learn something important in this video. Many of the Grips interface nuances are personal productivity game changers. What we don't know...we don't know.
Jeff still tries to wear out his Esc key. He doesn't turn on Shift to Add in the Selection Tab of Options.
I am biased. I consider Grips the best edit and create tool improvement that ever happened to AutoCAD. Grips skill is worth hours of your work week.
I contend that watching for the use of Grips skill in Civil 3D remains one of the best ways to quickly evaluate user skill.
The Grips control and capability for Civil 3D Features is far deeper the most users learn to employ. That shows quickly.
If you want to get good at all the Ctrl Shift and Alt key and Dyn Grip interface nuances, you must practice and drill.
5 minutes a day for a week twice a year works for me. Ok. I try do this when a new Civil 3D Update occurs to keep it simple.
Extreme Object Snaps in Civil 3D
Extreme Object Snaps in Civil 3D
5/7/2020
Autodesk's Jerry Bartels delivers a detailed review of AutoCAD Object Snaps methods, mechanics, and tools in Civil 3D.
This video is part of the 30-Minute Workout series on the Civil Immersion site.
See the Jerry Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
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Jerry. Thanks for the many useful Object Snap (OSNAP) reminders in here that help us all work smarter not harder.
You can bet you probably don't remember and/or employ all of the many AutoCAD OSNAP and other location tool tricks covered here.
"I didn't know AutoCAD could do that?" You will learn new things.
You got to love drag and drop script (.scr) files to standardize the many potential Settings you need to set for what task you have to do now.
Funny, I deleted the Scripts folder from the default Framework's InstantOn Desktop resources. I got tired of explaining to users why and what it was there for.
Oh, bother. Maybe the Scripts folder should make a comeback? Ok. It is just as easy to add Places into the Windows Open File box.