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 20 years of experience helping large and small, public and private clients in the eastern United States.

  • AutoCAD Tip: having fun with plotting configuration options and layer overrides

    AutoCAD Tip: having fun with plotting configuration options and layer overrides

    Let’s review some options to manipulate plots AutoCAD. Other than simply printing to black&white or color, a Plot Table can be configured to highlight design

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  • Civil 3D Labels: Adding Profile Grades to Alignments

    Civil 3D Labels: Adding Profile Grades to Alignments

    This post will show some options on how to add profile grade labels to the plan view on Alignment.

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  • Civil 3D Labels: reference text in Surface and Alignment annotations

    Civil 3D Labels: reference text in Surface and Alignment annotations

    Want to show Stations values on Spot Elevations? Or do need Alignment Labels to show Profile values? This post will show you how to accomplish that

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  • Map 3D: Sharing the Look of Stylized connections

    Map 3D: Sharing the Look of Stylized connections

    Learn how to duplicate the look of a Map 3D feature connection from one drawing to another.

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  • Civil 3D Corridors: having fun with transitions (part2 - right lane)

    Civil 3D Corridors: having fun with transitions (part2 - right lane)

    This post will explore how to easily apply Transitions values from one side to another.

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  • Civil 3D: controlling Alignment and Profile Labels

    Civil 3D: controlling Alignment and Profile Labels

    Do you have Alignment or Profile annotations that overlap each other? Lets see how to fix unruly labels.

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  • Civil 3D Corridors:  Individual Lanes Volumes

    Civil 3D Corridors: Individual Lanes Volumes

    Let’s explore some methods to call out individual lane volumes.

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  • Civil 3D Daylighting: Stripping Pavement subassembly

    Civil 3D Daylighting: Stripping Pavement subassembly

    Let’s explore the use of the Stripping Pavement daylight subassembly.

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  • Civil 3D Daylighting:  Stripping Top Soil subassembly

    Civil 3D Daylighting: Stripping Top Soil subassembly

    Let’s explore the used of the Stripping Top Soil daylight subassembly.

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  • Civil 3D Corridors : having fun with Transitions (part 1 - left lane)

    Civil 3D Corridors : having fun with Transitions (part 1 - left lane)

    Tired of using targets or unable to use targets to modify corridor design values? Need to edit and control more than a single station? This post will dig into new functionality: Corridor Transitions.

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  • Civil 3D Labels: “X” marks the spot

    Civil 3D Labels: “X” marks the spot

    This post will compare the options Civil 3D Labels offers to add a marker to annotations.

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  • 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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