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.
Please visit included links to the original postings. Those may contain details not included here for the sake of brevity.
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MAPTRIM SuperPower and Civil 3D
MAPTRIM SuperPower and Civil 3D
12/12/2017
Autodesk's Jerry Bartels demonstrates the use of the Map 3D MAPTRIM command to clean up an Exported Civil 3D model.
Jerry also covers how to employ Layer properties to include and exclude AutoCAD object content from the MAPTRIM.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
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MAPTRIM and MAPCLEAN are two of everyone's favorite Map 3D tools that a skilled Civil 3D user has to know.
Needless to say, this is a publication process. How well you set up the published content before you perform the MAPTRIM is important to produce good results.
Corridor Code Set Style Hatches
Corridor Code Set Style Hatches
12/07/2017
Material Fill Styles construction in Corridor Plan in a Code Set Style
Autodesk's Jeff Bartels walks through the basics of building Plan view hatching and fills in a corridor's Code Set Style.
This is technically the addition of a Material Fill Style on a Link code in the Code Set Style.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
This video is part of a video series about basic corridor publication:
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Jeff provides the basic how to. Code Set Styles that do this are useful for far more purposes than just cleaner plots and better presentations.
You can employ QAQC Code Set Styles to help visualize problems and/or successful link code generation in the corridor model.
If you build your own PKT files (Subassembly Composer files), you should try to employ the Civil 3D stock subassembly codes as this will save you tons of busy work.
Surprise. The Framework for Civil 3D even includes a Subassembly Code Spreadsheet tool to help manage that sort of stuff.
If you are a Framework for Civil 3D customer, you are a bit spoiled since the Framework already includes Code Set Styles that do this magic even with percentage screening.
To Change the Case of Text
To Change the Case of Text
11/07/2017
Tools to Change the Case of Text in AutoCAD and Civil 3D
Autodesk's Jerry Bartels bangs through the case for changing the Case of forms of text in both ACAD and Civil 3D in a quick demo.
Jerry covers the (Ctrl)(Shift)(U) and (Ctrl)(Shift)(L) keyboard shortcuts the TCASE command from Express Tools.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
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I was sorely tempted not to post this video. In some respects it is so silly. Then again - We don't know what we don't know.
I gave up editing and formatting text in AutoCAD decades ago for good reason.
I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for the job.
My favorite text editor these days is Notepad++ which includes all the TCASE options and Proper Case as well.
Since Notepad++ supports recognizes all the various file formats, programming languages, et al, it comes in so handy it is always open.