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EnvisionCAD is pleased to announce Eric Gates has joined our team! Eric’s specialty is Autodesk software and particularly with Civil 3D. His expertise is based on several decades of experience both as an end-user and CAD manager. He has a wide range of design experience including corridor modeling, roadway resurfacing, and site design projects. Eric [...]

Civil 3D CAD Specialist Do you have Civil 3D questions or successes you can share? Would you benefit from networking with others with production experience gained by working on complex civil infrastructure and grading projects? Someone with experience using Civil 3D efficiently and successfully from pre-design through construction phases? Someone who enjoys sharing that experience and knowledge to help you? [...]

The Autodesk® Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010 provides new functionality for importing and visualizing point clouds and designing roundabouts, and powerful enhancements that can help streamline existing workflows in AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010 software. This Subscription Advantage Pack can be downloaded from the Autodesk® Subscription Center. After the Subscription Advantage Pack is [...]

Have you ever tried editing a corridor section of a corridor with multiple baselines and the Select a Baseline and Select a Station drop-down list values in the Section Editor were not functioning correctly? Section Editor An easy way to eliminate this problem is to turn off all the baselines in the Corridor Properties other [...]

AutoCAD Civil 3D object properties can be quickly and easily modified using the Quick Properties palette. For each civil object, the name, description, style, and layer are available for editing in the Quick Properties palette. Also, you can easily customize the quick properties for any object in the Customize User Interface (CUI) editor. To access [...]

The Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 allows users to link Toolbox entries to their .Net macros. This linking eliminates the need to issue the NETLOAD command to load the .Net .dll file and then issuing the macro command name. It also replaces adding Windows registry entries to autoload the .dll file. On [...]

EXAMPLE Have you ever created an alignment, corridor region or other Civil 3D object and then find the ‘next counter’ number in the name is not starting at one? This starting number can be reset to 1 in the Name Template. To reset the starting number that is used for the Next Counter variable when [...]

Viewing the corridor surface slopes allows you to evaluate the finish design surface of the corridor surface for minimum and maximum slopes. Perform a slope analysis of the finish surface of the corridor model to locate flat and steep slopes. In Tool Space dialog, Prospector tab: Expand Surfaces Right-click ‘Finish Surface’, select Surface Properties In [...]

The MarkPoint subassembly is used to mark an existing point on the assembly with a name. This is usually done so that other subassemblies can later insert links that attach back to this point (for this example, the LinkSlopesBetweenPoints is used). The attachment point is the point that is marked. You can add user-defined point [...]

When working with a surface the triangle leg length can be constrained. By defining a maximum length of a triangle leg the surface will remove any triangles with one or more sides that are longer then the defined value. This can be used to delete errant triangles across concave areas as shown in the example [...]