Civil 3D 2009
The Autodesk civil engineering solution, made up of AutoCAD® Civil software and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, provides project teams with a comprehensive surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution to deliver land development, transportation, and environmental projects faster and with improved accuracy. With model-centric technology at the core, design changes are automatically reflected across the project, helping to keep the entire team coordinated.
By Donnie Gladfelter on March 1, 2010
Getting the initial manuscript for my upcoming book AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT: No Experience Required submitted has made me fall behind on reading some of my favorite blogs. This morning I took a quick minute to get caught up on what’s happening in the blogosphere, and came across an announcement on the EE Civil3DPedia blog [...]
Posted in Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2009, Civil 3D 2010 | Tagged EE ProPack, Engineered Efficiency |
By Donnie Gladfelter on April 20, 2009
A couple weeks ago, I had what some would call the perfect storm; a major deadline, crashing grading drawings, and managerial pressure to get it fixed yesterday. Trouble was, regardless of the series of commands I threw at the troublesome drawings, the errors remained, and the drawings continued to crash. In fact, there was a [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Civil 3D, Feature Lines, Sites, Undocumented Command |
By Donnie Gladfelter on March 11, 2009
While importing surface data from Google Earth is probably the easiest way to get some conceptual topographical data into your drawings, DEM’s have to be a close second. For the uninitiated, DEM’s or Digital Elevation Models could be described as a surface whose data is organized in a grid. This is fundamentally different than DTM’s [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2008, Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Coordinate System, DEM, sdts2dem |
By Donnie Gladfelter on November 3, 2008
When compared to Land Desktop’s View/Edit Sections command, Civil 3D has always been the winner. Still it was easy to get lost modifying your corridor. Did I need to modify station 13+25.17 or 13+25? Prior to Civil 3D 2009 I always found myself flip-flopping between plan view and the View/Edit Corridor Section command. Civil 3D [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Civil 3D, Corridors, features, Sections, View Edit |
By Donnie Gladfelter on May 27, 2008
Among the new features in Civil 3D 2009 is the ability to target Feature Lines. For those who may still be transitioning from Land Desktop, a Feature Line is in essence a 3D Polyline on steroids. Since Feature Lines are a topic of their own, I will not digress any further than to say this [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Assemblies, Civil 3D 2009, Corridors, Road Design, Subassemblies, Transition |
