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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Lidar Workflow in the 2019 AEC Collection
Lidar Workflow in the 2019 AEC Collection
5/16/2019
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Autodesk's David Fagerman steps through a detailed workflow of processsing Lidar data from ReCap to Infraworks to Civil 3D in a series of 6 videos.
From the FDOT YouTube Channel.
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This videos series is a good detailed review of workflows to process Lidar data into workable project data.
Sadly, the 3 last videos were published without sound, but are easy enough to follow and review the workflow with some different details and public source data.
Videos 4 an 5 step through and review the workflow again this time with public source aerial data only processed in ReCap with control instead of Lidar data.
Video 6 steps through the workflow with public source aerial the Lidar (.las) and photo data processed in ReCap with control.
Civil 3D Reference Templates
Civil 3D Reference Templates
2/15/2019
Mark Schnesk walks through the bare essentials of a single source Reference Template in Civil 3D.
From the Autodesk AKN Civil 3D Screencasts
See Mark Schnesk's AKN page
See the Seiler Design Solutions blog.
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Be aware the Civil 3D will not currently remove all Style references when a Reference Template is detached.
You can employ the Style Purge command in the Manage Ribbon to do so.
See the Three Wishes for Civil 3D Reference Templates post for more Reference Template details, links, and videos
Lock Civil 3D Structure Leader to Any Location
Lock Civil 3D Structure Leader to Any Location
2/14/2019
Autodesk's Jeff Bartels walks through a trick to employ the Toggle Label Pin tool and a tweak to the Label leader to fix a label location for a Structure in Civil 3D.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
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You have to do this trick a couple of times to learn how the mechanics work. This is a workaround for a common compliant about the Structure Label Style in the Dragged State.
Seems silly to have to add the leader vertex, but it forces Civil 3D to obey when coupled with a Label Toogle Pin property assigned to a specific Label.
As Jeff points out in the video, you can employ the Toogle Pin Tool to Labels in other views.