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 Cul-De-Sac Grading
Faster Cul-De-Sac Grading
10/31/2025
Gil Cordie, from LJA, demos how to employ a Civil 3D Roundabout with a custom standards setup to quickly grade a residential cul-de-sac.
The standards set up work is not that difficult to sort out.
Visit the Gil Cordie YouTube page
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Gil demos a quicker way to grade the pavement sections of a typical cul-de-sac by using a Civil 3D Roundabout feature.
Most of the time we will be daylighting the resultant Corridor Surfaces to intermediate (temporary) design surfaces.
This is maybe not the first time we've seen this slick Civil 3D Roundabout trick.
Gil covers the necessary details and steps to reproduce it really well. A must watch!
Remember we can Data Shortcut these cul-de-sac Corridor parts within our Civil 3D project.
Import Lat Long Points
Import Lat Long Points
10/9/2025
Jason Porter delivers a review of how to import COGO Points from a Lat Long CSV file into a State Plane coordinate system.
The task requires the creation of a new Points File Import Format and the annotation a new Point label style.
See the Jason Porter YouTube Channel
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We might create a separate Survey Db to import the CSV file into.
That would allow us to import the points into any project drawing on demand.
Crossing Object Projections in Section Views
Crossing Object Projections in Section Views
6/10/2025
How to employ Offset Alignments or Feature Lines to project the necessary data to produce Crossing Markers and/or Labels into Civil 3D Section Views.
A detailed walkthrough of the common steps required to create, edit, and manage Crossing Markers and automatic Crossing Labels in Section Views.
Visit the Civil 3D Fix (Click This Do That) YouTube Channel page.
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The Offset Alignment and Feature Line projection methods outlined in this demo will generally produce what most folks need most of the time. Hoorah.
Why the methods sometimes won't or don't produce what we want is also discussed. Pay careful attention.
In Civil 3D we learn to pick our poison.
Another method is to employ Civil 3D Corridor output to generate COGO Points at the required locations and then project the generated Point objects into our Section Views.
This Point projection method can be more flexible about the displayed results and a bit less tedious in practice if we learn to employ shared Survey Dbs to store the Point output.
That Civil 3D project based workflow allows us access to that data in any of our deliverable output drawings.