Tips from Experts

A Civil 3D Surface from Point Cloud Data

10/4/2018

Two videos to explain Point Cloud surface creation in Civil 3D 2018 and Civil 3D 2019 via a ReCap Pro processed file.

Point Cloud to Recap Pro and Export to RCP or RCS file

Create Surface from RCP or RCS file in Civil 3D

Jason Porter of Applied Software walks through the basic workflows in both ReCap Pro (video 1) and Civil 3D (video 2) to create a surface from point cloud LAS data exported as a RCP file by ReCap Pro.
The small interface differences between recent Civil 3D 2018 and 2019 versions is also shown.
From the Jason Porter's YouTube Channel.

Useful GIS Data into Civil 3D

8/24/2018

Mark Schnesk of Seiler Design Solutions shows a few common ways in which GIS data can be utilized in your engineering projects in Civil 3D and a bit of Infraworks.
From the Seiler Design Solutions YouTube Channel.
and the Seiler Design Solutions blog.

Comments

This is a great quick walk-through of Map 3D capabilities, GIS integration, and Civil 3D tools.
Mark covers the Civil 3D Pipes import tool which often gets lost in the shuffle since it is hidden in the Ribbon.
He does not cover WMS Aerial Imagary via FDO which you also do not want to miss.
See the WMS and DWF Aerial Imagery video and post.

Fix a Poorly Resolved Surface Paste

7/03/2018

Jowenn Lua shows a classic Minimum Distance Between Surfaces method to resolve a Paste resolution problem between two complex surfaces.
From the Autodesk AKN Civil 3D Screencasts
See Jowenn Lua's AKN page

Comments

I continue to learn and then forget this great surface Paste workaround. The video reminder is worth it's weight.