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Civil 3D makes it easy to define corridors from an alignment, profile, and assembly. That said, after the initial creation, additional components like surfaces, boundaries, slope patterns and frequencies are almost always added. This process then repeats with each new corridor.
Wouldn’t it be nice if these additional components were treated like “properties” that could be easily copied from one corridor to another? Fortunately, Civil 3D 2022.1 makes this possible with a brand-new feature called “Corridor Templates”.
In today’s installment we’ll use the Corridor Template feature to extract surface definitions, slope patterns, and code set styles from a saved corridor model and apply them to a new (or existing) corridor. As a bonus we’ll also explore the improved “Match Parameters” feature to copy/paste even more properties between corridor models.
If you’re interested, I’ve created a quick video below that walks through everything…
-Jeff
When using Civil 3D (or any AutoCAD based tool) there are multiple ways to automate repetitive tasks. Today we will be looking at two of them. These include Script files (.SCR) and simple LISP code (.LSP)
I chose these before jumping right to Dynamo or the Civil 3D API because Scripts and AutoLISP have been around for decades, there is a TON of information (sample code) online, and they are very easy to learn and use.
In short, wanted to leave you with something you could literally start experimenting with immediately after reading/watching the video.
In the 30 min presentation recording below, I walk through the creation of both interactive and fully automated tools. I also explore how these tools can be easily be applied to an entire folder of files using the Civil 3D Batch Save Utility.
You can check out the video here...
-Jerry
