You may have heard about the importance of a well-developed Civil 3D drawing template. In fact, you may be struggling to deliver projects on time and within budget because you don’t have the in-house resources to develop your company’s base Civil 3D template. Even with a certain level of training …
Civil 3D 2020 and Infraworks 2020 are out!!!
Jason PorterToday Autodesk released their newest versions of Civil 3D and Infraworks. You can find them in your Autodesk Account. Check this link out for some of the new features regarding both: Say hello to InfraWorks and Civil 3D 2020
13 Things About Civil 3D You May Not Have Known
Carol Dunn and Brian HaileyWe interrupt this program for an important news bulletin: *Great news! Brian Hailey’s new eBook “Residential Subdivision Grading” is now available for download from Applied Software. Save yourself time on feature lines and grading surfaces while maximizing efficiency when designing final detailed grading around houses.* You think you know a …
Adding Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds Symbols to Civil 3D Reports
Jason PorterWhen Civil 3D was first introduced, there was a lot of excitement regarding its ability to generate reports almost automatically. Those of us who spent hours writing up tedious metes and bounds reports were about 95% happy. Why not 100%? Well, the reports generated would not express the bearings of …
Adding Image Data in Map 3D/Civil 3D from a Web Mapping Service (WMS)
Jason PorterThis video briefly explains the process to connect to a WMS and import aerial imagery within Map 3D or Civil 3D:
Point Cloud to Recap to Civil 3D Workflow
Jason PorterPrior to Civil 3D 2018, this was the process of importing a point cloud and creating a surface in Civil 3D: Creating a Surface from a Point Cloud in Civil 3D Due to the complexity and sizes of LIDAR (point cloud) data, processing the information within Civil 3D has become quite …
Civil 3D – What I Learned Today – Custom Arrowheads
Brian HaileyUsing the Multileader or Dimensions in AutoCAD, you can create a custom arrowhead and use that instead of the default ones that ship with the software. When setting up a style in Civil 3D, you are stuck with the default ones, there’s no option for using a custom one. There …
Advanced Residential Lot Grading in Civil 3D
Jason PorterAre you struggling with using Civil 3D to grade a subdivision? Do you have trouble utilizing feature lines to control grading and targets within your Civil 3D corridors? If so, then this blog is for you. My very good friend and Civil 3D wizard Felix Cortez, has created this great …
Publish Civil 3D Surface to Revit Topo – 2019.1
Brian HaileyThe latest versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D and Autodesk Revit has just been released (this is the 2019.1 release). In the releases, there is a new set of tools that allow for the sharing of a Civil 3D surface with a Revit topo. Basically the process is as follows: Install …
Commercial Grading Using Corridors and Feature Lines in Civil 3D
Jason PorterHere is a great process of grading a commercial site using a Civil 3D corridor and feature lines to grade so that you can easily and rapidly make changes. Thanks again to the Civil 3D wizard, Felix Cortez, for sharing this very educational video:
Civil 3D – What I Learned Today – Sample Lines
Brian HaileyI’ve been involved with Civil 3D ever since the preview version came out with LDT 2004 and I know a lot about this program but, I’m constantly learning new things. I’ve decided to start a new series called, “What I Learned Today”. There are so many times I’ve been on …
Civil 3D Desrcription Key Basics (Part 3)
Jason PorterThis is part 3 of a series explaining how Civil 3D description keys work and how to manage them:
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