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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Make Contours Look Good
Make Contours Look Good
3/12/2020
USCAD's James Lord covers in detail how to do Contour construction and best practices for Civil 3D surfaces.
See James Lord's AKN page
From James Lord's YouTube channel
See James Lord's blog on USCAD.com
Comments
A basic video with great Surface construction tricks. These are mostly focused on prettier contour presentation.
Typical Weeding and Suplementing values for Coutour and Feature line processing should be based on a spec - aka an agreed on standard for the type of surface.
James covers the often neglected Smoothing Tool for Surfaces in Civil 3D with the important gotchas.
Design Corridors with Medians
Design Corridors with Medians
3/10/2020
Kris Hodne, Sr Civil Technical Specialist at ATG walks through how to design and construct a center Alignment based Corridor with turn lane medians.
From the ATG YouTube Channel.
Comments
This video walkthrough clearly demostrates the need to plan, name, and execute well when you construct a complex Corridor in Civil 3D.
Note the use of a second base corridor to generate the intermediate surface to simplfy design and maintenance of the proposed design profiles.
I'd probably take the time to make ALL the Design Control Data Shortcut based in a real world project including that base corridor and surface.
Know thy subassemblies...
Three Quick Steps Cul de Sac Corridors
Three Quick Steps Cul de Sac Corridors
01/27/2020
Shuaib Yunos, an Technical Specialist at Baker Baynes, delivers a webinar on a quick 3 step approach to Corridor Cul De Sac design with Autodesk Civil 3D.
From the Baker Baynes YouTube Channel.
Comments
The sweet and simple cha cha cha for those nasty cul de sac designs we love to hate in Civil 3D.
You got to love how Shuaib edits the first super simple alignment to add in the more complex alignment curve details. Totally non-linear.
The video link here skips the first 9:30 of the video. Where the cul de sac was first used in back at about 5:50 in the video.