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Useful Video Training Tips from Experts
The Civil Experts produce a wide range of Tips video content.
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Superelevation and Design Criteria File Edits
Superelevation and Design Criteria File Edits
11/09/2019
Kyle Evans delivers a detailed review of how to modify Superelevation Design Criteria file XML data and the available resources in Civil 3D.
From the Kyle Evans' YouTube Channel.
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Kyle covers the necessary details of updating the Super calculation tables in Civil 3D in this video for the province of Alberta Canada.
Does this matter to US Civil 3D users? You bet!
I'd bet that simplified or even specialized built-in Design Criteria file tables would help smooth out the work your production projects.
Separating the wheat you need from the chaff you don't need always helps.
The odds are many jurisdictions and you don't employ the full range of AASHTO tables and super slope percentages supplied in the resources.
Don't forget to get the slighter mighty updates delivered to your user's local install locations.
The Civil 3D 2020.2 Update includes the newer AASHTO 2018 Standards files.
I tend to copy and rename the XML resources files first before editing them inside Civil 3D. Then again I am lazy.
You can also cheat and rebuild the XML table record changes in the structures from a spreadsheet and an XML capable text editor.
There are Framework for Civil 3D Spreadsheet Tools that do exactly that sort of thing for Figure Prefix Dbs and Survey Queries.
The Best Map 3D Tools for Civil 3D Projects
The Best Map 3D Tools for Civil 3D Projects
8/20/2019
Seth Cohen of Digital Drafting Systems Inc walks through a review of the many useful and powerful Map 3D Tools for use in Civil 3D Projects.
From the Digital Drafting Systems Inc YouTube Channel.
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Seth does a great job of covering the best of Map 3D functionality and tools in Civil 3D without getting bogged down in the details. Seth covers the best of Map 3D in less than an hour. No small challenge. His large Surfaces from Map Attached drawing Queries is alone worth a look see here.
Map 3D is one of the best things built into Civil 3D that many ignore and therefore work way too hard.
This is best Map 3D tools overview I have seen in a long time. Thanks Seth!
If you don't use MAPCLEAN on a regular basis, we can only ask, "What Are You Thinking?"
A Walkthrough of Autodesk Vault
A Walkthrough of Autodesk Vault
7/29/2019
Joe Hedrick, a Senior Application Expert for IMAGINiT, walks through and then demos Autodesk Vault Data Management fundamentals and benefits. Visit the IMAGINiT YouTube page
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Sadly, it's been a long while since I've found a decent Autodesk Vault demo. Thanks Joe. This is a good one and worth a review if you want to understand the benefits and mechanics of Vault.
We skip forward the start this video to the beginning of the Vault demo.
That does not mean the informative and detailed Powerpoint presentation before the demo isn't useful.
The better and more developed your Civil 3D Project Templates are the easier Vault is to implement and reap the just rewards.