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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Create a Corridor into the Corners
Create a Corridor into the Corners
07/19/2020
Jowenn Lua walks through a solution for corridor resolution with problematic perpendicular corners in Civil 3D.
From the Autodesk AKN Civil 3D Screencasts
See Jowenn Lua's AKN page
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This is a workable but complex solution to the common problem of purely perpendicular targets in corridor resolution.
Both an intermediate surface (from another corridor) and Assembly Offsets are employed in the workflow.
You have to ask...What if you change the design plan and employ Offset Alignments, Slope Controlled Profiles, and Widenings?
Regions and a few added Frequency stations are required.
Connected to Alignments in Civil 3D
Connected to Alignments in Civil 3D
6/4/2020
Kyle Groves, a Technical Specialist at ATG, delivers a detailed review and demo of Connected Alignment functionality in Civil 3D.
From the ATG YouTube Channel.
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Connected Alignments are one of the best and most useful design things in Civil 3D. Without them you are basically toast.
Kyle delivers both good reasons why and how to employ them to a classic intersection problem.
He includes some great intructional Alignment fundamentals and some intermediate to advanced Connected Alignment tips and tricks along the way.
See the previously mentioned recent Marked Point video - Median Design with Corridors
See Kyle's earlier Modeling video - Model with Offset Alignments and Profiles
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.