Leo Lavayen

Civil Applications Expert<br><br>As an Applications Expert, Leo is responsible for supporting, training and implementation of software for survey and civil engineering professionals. He has more than 19 years of experience helping large and small, public and private clients in the eastern United States.

  • Civil 3D: Reducing Surface Data Shortcuts with Hidden Setting

    Civil 3D: Reducing Surface Data Shortcuts with Hidden Setting

    Have you ever created a Surface Data Shortcut in hopes to reduced it's file size, but it does not work? This post will reveal the setting you need.

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  • Civil 3D: How to hide a Profile

    Civil 3D: How to hide a Profile

    Need to hide a Profile but do not know how to? Let’s explore an option.

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  • Civil 3D: Having Fun Displaying Cut and Fill

    Civil 3D: Having Fun Displaying Cut and Fill

    Need help showing Cut and Fill clearly in your drawings? Let’s explore the options on how-to leverage styles and settings to show what you might need.

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  • Civil 3D Corridors:  Understanding Duplicate Subassemblies

    Civil 3D Corridors: Understanding Duplicate Subassemblies

    Let’s explore how duplicate or stacked subassemblies can affect design

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  • Civil 3D: Adding Additional Sample Lines and Section Views to Group

    Civil 3D: Adding Additional Sample Lines and Section Views to Group

    Have you ever had your section views sheets created, everything is lined up and in place. But now you have to add an extra sample line, how did you do it

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  • Civil 3D: Slope Arrows that always point downhill

    Civil 3D: Slope Arrows that always point downhill

    Do your slope arrows sometimes point in the wrong direction? See how to fix that.

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  • Civil 3D Corridor: How to Hide the Markers

    Civil 3D Corridor: How to Hide the Markers

    Are your corridors in section views cluttered with markers (dots)? Learn how to clean things up.

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  • Civil 3D Pipe Labels: Shifted and Centered

    Civil 3D Pipe Labels: Shifted and Centered

    Working with expressions to slide pipe label out of the way.

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  • Volume Surface Spot Elevations (part 2):  rotate Positive & Negative values

    Volume Surface Spot Elevations (part 2): rotate Positive & Negative values

    This second part, will cover how to make Civil 3D surface spot elevations that automatically rotate depending on elevation values.

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  • Volume Surface Spot Elevations (part 1):  color code Positive & Negative values

    Volume Surface Spot Elevations (part 1): color code Positive & Negative values

    This first part, will review the creation a Civil 3D surface spot elevations that automatically that show and hide positive values, and color codes them respectively as green and red.

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  • Twisted Civil 3D Intersections:  Lane Codes (crown vs edge of travel way)

    Twisted Civil 3D Intersections: Lane Codes (crown vs edge of travel way)

    This will review how to build better intersections by setting the correct lane code

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  • Twisted Civil 3D Intersections:  Curb Returns & Generic Links

    Twisted Civil 3D Intersections: Curb Returns & Generic Links

    Civil 3D can run into issues when intersections use Generic Links at the back of curb

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  • What's New in Autodesk Civil 3D & ReCAP 202539:59

    What's New in Autodesk Civil 3D & ReCAP 2025

    IMAGINiT expert Leo Lavayen explores the new features and functions in the latest Autodesk Civil 3D & ReCAP 2025.

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  • Civil 3D Tips & Tricks: switching units for subassembly values

    Civil 3D Tips & Tricks: switching units for subassembly values

    Did you know that you can input values using alternate units when working with Subassemblies?

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  • Civil 3D: mix and match Reference Templates

    Civil 3D: mix and match Reference Templates

    Let’s explore the possibilities that using multiple Civil 3D Reference Template give us

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  • ABC Pro for Civil: sharing Civil 3D Pipe Catalogs

    ABC Pro for Civil: sharing Civil 3D Pipe Catalogs

    Can Civil 3D Pipe Catalogs be hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud?

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  • ABC Pro for Civil: Civil 3D Survey Databases

    ABC Pro for Civil: Civil 3D Survey Databases

    Discover if Civil 3D Survey Databases and their Settings can be hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud.

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  • ABC Pro for Civil: Civil 3D Reference Templates

    ABC Pro for Civil: Civil 3D Reference Templates

    Is the use of Civil 3D Reference Templates supported on the Autodesk Construction Cloud?

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  • ABC Pro for Civil: Civil 3D Data Shortcuts

    ABC Pro for Civil: Civil 3D Data Shortcuts

    Are Civil 3D Data Shortcuts Supported on the Autodesk Construction Cloud.

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  • ABC Pro for Civil:  Map 3D Web Data Services Connections

    ABC Pro for Civil: Map 3D Web Data Services Connections

    Are Map 3D Web type connections supported on Autodesk Construction Cloud?

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