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Civil 3D 2008: Hatching Plan Drawings for Corridors

One of the helpful features in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 is hatching the plan drawing in corridor design. On earlier versions it was necessary to use loads of bpoly commands to hatch asphalt, footpaths, earthworks, etc. Now users can hatch automatically from the sub assemblies. Additionally, using the same technique, users can add render materials to the corridor without making a single surface.

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Hidden Gem When Selecting Points

Normally when you use Surface/Edits/Delete to delete points you are prompted to select them one by one on screen. Now there is an easier way.

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Online Blocks
Here is a short tutorial on a part from Design Center that I'd like you all to be aware of. Open up Design Center. Start up Design Center. S...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Changing Widths on Sample Lines
I want to highlight a small "button" that you might not have recognized. The button is for changing the Sample Lines swath width. When...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Streamline Your Tool Palette
Start with Tool Palettes as seen below. Open Design Center. In Design Center, you have this interface. It's an excellent tool to get data...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Coordinates to ASCII
In this tutorial you will leverage a function in AutoCAD Map 3D 2008, which is also in Civil 3D. If you have a set of objects, Polylines in this ex...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Fading Layers
When you create a set of Cross Sections (Multiple Views) in a separate drawing, using Corridor Xref, the drawing could display as a mess in...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Surface Breaklines
When adding a breakline to a surface, you may have seen that around your radius corners you don’t have much detail in the surface, as well ...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
View/Edit Corridor Sections
I would like to discuss the concept of overrides when editing the corridor. When you build a corridor, you can use the command Corridor -> Vie...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
More on Cross Sections
Credit for this post also goes to Jörg and Chakri Gavini one of our product designers based in Manchester. And now to the show. Last t...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Assigning Elevations to Contours
Nicholas Menu, Autodesk EMEA C3D Support team, wrote the following .LSP regarding elevations on contours. Sometimes you're stuck with old data ...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none
Editing a Surface. . . from a Cross Section View
As you may know, Civil 3D allows users to create top surfaces very easily with a few clicks. But what about those complex intersections or funny ...		 Autodesk Civil 3D none