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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The Faster AutoCAD PREVIEW Command
The Faster AutoCAD PREVIEW Command
4/25/2017
The Faster way to Preview and Plot
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Autodesk's Jerry Bartels covers the useful AutoCAD PREVIEW command as a QAQC and plot shortcut
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
Viewport Clip in Civil 3D
Viewport Clip in Civil 3D
3/28/2017
How Use Viewport Clip in Civil 3D
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Jerry Bartels of Autodesk covers the basics of the AutoCAD VPCLIP command.
The command changes the geometry of typical rectangular viewports into polyline based objects.
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
Generate Surface Highs and Lows
Generate Surface Highs and Lows
2/14/2017
How to Generate High and Low Points on a Civil 3D Surface
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Jerry Bartels of Autodesk covers the Civil 3D Toolbox command AECCDRAWSURFACEHIGHLOWPOINTS.
The command creates COGO points at High Points and Low Points on a Civil 3D surface or a portion of a surface.
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
Sadly, this handy command is still NOT XREF aware. However, the surface can be a DREF.
The boundary you select must be an 2D polyline object in the current drawing too. No Parcels allowed.
Yes, in a complex surface you can get a lot of new COGO points.
Also left unsaid by Jerry is a reminder that you might want to set your current COGO point number in advance.
I always thought this would be more useful if you could choose to create only low points for example.
That would be handy for Catchment creation. As it is you just have to delete the high points which are separated by Style.