Civil 3D 2009

Easily manage your Civil 3D Styles and Templates for FREE

by Donnie Gladfelter on March 1, 2010

in Civil 3D,Civil 3D 2009,Civil 3D 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 [...]

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Undocumented Civil 3D Commands for Sites

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 20, 2009

in Civil 3D 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 [...]

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Acquiring, Converting, and Using DEM Downloads in Civil 3D

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 [...]

Tracking your position in View/Edit Corridor Section

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 [...]

Simple Road Transition With Feature Lines

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 [...]