Civil 3D

Explore how AI is being applied in infrastructure today and where it's headed next, with real examples from AutoCAD 2026 and insights on what's coming.

Considering Autodesk's Civil 3D is now 20 years old, one might think that everyone who has adopted it over the last two decades has fine-tuned every nook and cranny of the software

This post will show how to leverage expressions to remove unwanted zero length assembly labels.

This post will show how to leverage expressions to remove unwanted vertical assembly labels.

Are your corridor dimensions twisted? Look here for how to create AutoCAD dimension like labels for corridor links in section views

Making Map 3D connected (FDO) entities and labels visible against light or dark backgrounds.

Provide insight on behaviors of Design Speed changes along Alignment Curves.

How to Stack Map 3D Feature Label Text.

Top 5 IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D that teams love—automate points, sheets, cleanup, and survey tasks to deliver projects faster.

Civil 3D caches file history and drawing thumbnails in a local roaming profile folder.

A specific linetype displays perfectly for everyone else in the project but refuses to show correctly on one user’s machine — even after reinstalling Civil 3D.

Users can select surfaces by name and see them in Object Inspector, but no contours, triangles, or labels appear — even when using a style known to work.

A large plan set with dozens of profiles occasionally prints without grade lines on random sheets — and which ones fail changes every time.

Linetypes display correctly in Model Space but appear continuous or wrong inside Layout viewports.

Discover five Civil 3D and AutoCAD tasks you can automate with IMAGINiT Clarity to save time, improve model health, and deliver projects more efficiently.

In today’s blog we will learn how to enter data into the Civil 3D Traverse Editor and convert that data by changing the units of measurement.