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FeatureLine Priority

On February 3, 2010, in Feature Lines, by Mark Spatz, P.E.

As a follow-up to the post Feature Line Styles Control What?:

‘Featureline Priority’ is most likely a feature – no pun intended – in Civil 3D that you have overlooked or didn’t even know about. As you do know, if Featurelines are in the same ‘Site’ they interact with each other and the last one edited wins.

For example:

If you have two Featurelines that cross each other and are in the same ‘Site’, Civil 3D will force them to be at the same elevation where they cross. This is a good thing since they need to be to build an accurate surface (review image below).

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Really Easy Rendering

On February 1, 2010, in civil3d.com, by Kevin Clark, P.E.

Have you always wanted to add a bit of show to your Civil3D surfaces? Well you can quite easily add some rendering to your models and project it up in 3D to impress those that don’t find TIN triangles beautiful. Lets see how after the jump…..

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Surface Volumes 301

On January 29, 2010, in Corridors, Downloads, Quantities, Surface, civil3d.com, by Matt Kolberg

A post in the discussion group today got my attention. Calculating end area volumes based on your EG versus your Corridor Datum is easy and it’s explained in various publications including the Civil 3D tutorials, the Learning Civil 3D manual, among others. There are often far more complicated calculations that need to be done, however. Read on…

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Five Questions with Dawn Danby

On January 28, 2010, in Autodesk, civil3d.com, by James Wedding, P.E.

And the first question you’ll have is, “Who the heck is Dawn Danby?” cause that’s how the Civil world rolls.

Ms. Danby is the Sustainable Design Program Manager at Autodesk, and one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business according to Fast Company. I had a chance meeting with her at AU last year and really enjoyed getting a few minutes of her thoughts on how Civils can be part of the Sustainable Design movement at Autodesk. If you’ve ever wanted to know how Civil 3D plays into the bigger green movement, or wanted to know more about how Ecotect can push our field in new directions, here’s your chance.

She’s been gracious enough to agree to play our Five Questions game, so fire away in the comments below. Like last time, I’ll review and compile, and pass them along.

Good Reading: Creating a Pond Access Ramp

On January 24, 2010, in Corridors, Grading, by James Wedding, P.E.

In case you don’t live and breathe Civil 3D blogs like I do, there’s a great post by the grading guru, Eric Chappell over on Civil3dpedia. Check it out here: Creating a Pond Access Ramp.

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