Civil Immersion

Making Powerful Selections using Civil 3D / AutoCAD

If you’ve ever taken a formal training course to learn an application like Civil 3D, you know there’s never enough time to explore EVERYTHING the application can do.  (Not to mention all the features and tools included with Map 3D and AutoCAD.) Typical courses cover the “need to know” functionality to get you up and running using the application.  The remaining features, tools, and shortcuts are then learned over the course of years using Civil 3D in production.

To help fast track some of the on-the-job learning, we’ve started a new bi-weekly webinar series called “30 min. Workout”.  Each session is designed to demonstrate features and functionality not typically shown during traditional classroom training.  This week we launched the series by exploring the many ways the AutoCAD platform allows us to select objects.  When you think about it, most commands require object selection.  The more selection methods you know, the more efficient you can be using virtually every command! 

If you are interested, I’ve included a link to a recording of the session…

-Jeff

 

Using the BIM 360 Platform on a Civil 3D project

In our last installment, we talked about how BIM 360 Docs can help us collaborate by providing tools to address typical “face to face” interactions.

In today’s installment, we will open it up to several additional tools within the BIM 360 Platform.  This includes BIM 360 Design and BIM 360 Build.  We will also look at how the complete project model can be aggregated in Navisworks and BIM 360 issues created where any design problems may exist.

Now I know what you are thinking….  I heard those tools were for Architects and Contractors.  How can they help on a Civil 3D project?

In short they can provide tremendous value!!  For starters, you can work on a Civil 3D project in the cloud.   You can automate existing manual tasks.  You can enhance productivity.  And you can get additional visibility and verification in your projects.

To demonstrate this I have put together a presentation that walks through a "workflow" overview of what this design collaboration could look like.

Click on the video below to see how it works!

-Jerry