Civil 3D Tutorials

Making Your AutoCAD Civil 3D Project Shine, Part 2

Perform line of sight, measure distances, terrain, sight distance analysis on project, apply predefined style rules, review, update changes in InfraWorks 360 before sharing presentation, Elliott Rosenfeld, BIMagination, May 13, 2015

Civil 3D DWG File Size To Big? Try These Steps

Run audit to detect, fix errors, invoke -PURGE command to get access to REGAPPS option, download DGN hotfix if running Civil 3D 2014 or older, Ron Couillard, What’s the Word on Civil 3D, May 8, 2015

Civil 3D 2016 – Transitions

Apply ‘create feature lines from corridor’ command to extract hinge string, set additional corridor to handle just earthworks, attach BatterTransition subassembly to previous link before changing values to suit requirements, Andrew Milford, From the Ground Up, May 3, 2015

Overrule pipe network part in profile view

Obtain database if entity is database resident, get model part type, apply simple overrule skeleton to change pipe or structure representation on Civil 3D profile view, Augusto Goncalves, Infrastructure Modeling DevBlog, Apr 30, 2015

Projecting Objects in AutoCAD Civil 3D

Recognize option availability when profile view is selected to project first object from plan view to profile, select, configure object to show up with user customized options for display, Mick Reynolds, IMAGINiT Civil Solutions Blog, Apr 29, 2015

Pipe Network Design Styles in Civil 3D

Change direction of flow on reaching low/high point in associated profile, apply ‘major minor H+V geometry points’ to set label, allow user to read high point information, before low point information, Mick Reynolds, IMAGINiT Civil Solutions Blog, Apr 29, 2015

AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Undocumented command CONVERTLINEWORKTOMASKBLOCK

Run command, select closed polylines, open ‘convert to mask block’ to mask objects, place resulting mask block reference object on no plot layer once mask is created, Ben Johnson, Envision CAD, Apr 28, 2015

Making Your AutoCAD Civil 3D Project Shine, Part 1

Employ model builder to create InfraWorks 360 model of geographic area represented by AutoCAD Civil 3D design project, open data resources panel, choose AutoCAD Civil 3D DWG to connect to Civil 3D drawing, Elliott Rosenfeld, BIMagination, Apr 23, 2015

InfraWorks 360 Web: Your model in a browser!

Visit portal page to find, open model, generate model view for entire model, form scenario location, extents in context of whole model, Markus Briglmeir, BIMagination, Apr 19, 2015