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- posted 01/05/07 by Jack Strongitharm 3DDWF IT
- Have you tried exporting to a 3D DWF?
This functionality is amazing and its use it not fully understood.
It gives you the ability to create a true 3D model from your Civil 3D design with rendered materials and then freely navigate the model using your mouse.
Creating videos are possible through Civil 3D but are a fixed view.
So why not export your model and then use them to present your work in a 3D way rather than just those 2D drawings.
We are in a digital age after all.
Site model of a concept of a new stadium
Download file
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What Lies Beneath, many cables and pipes!!
Note you can also make surfaces transparent from within the DWF to see objects that are underneath.
You can easily use this functionality in design meetings, planning permission and public exhibitions as they dont necessarily see what an engineer might see.
To create one from Civil 3D
Set your start view and also the visual style to realistic
File->Export->Export to other formats
Give it a name and select 3DDWF as the file type.
Jack Strongitharm