IMAGINiT Civil Solutions Blog

Topics include civil engineering industry insight featuring Autodesk civil engineering software, including AutoCAD and Civil 3D.

  • 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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  • Surface Level of Detail Updates in Civil 3D 2025

    Surface Level of Detail Updates in Civil 3D 2025

    The usefulness may be lost on some, but for those who have multiple surfaces in the same drawing can now selectively choose to which surface(s) an LOD setting applies.

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  • Parking Lot Layout - Infraworks

    Parking Lot Layout - Infraworks

    Parking Lot Areas, Parking Layout, and Parking Row allow you to show a preliminary design without requiring much time or effort.

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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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  • Use Infraworks for site balance during early design stages

    Use Infraworks for site balance during early design stages

    Use Grading Areas early in the design process to identify the best development location.

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  • Description keys for Designers

    Description keys for Designers

    Only Surveyors use points and description keys, right? Well, no actually.

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  • Enforcing and Creating Purpose-Built Autodesk Technology Standards

    Enforcing and Creating Purpose-Built Autodesk Technology Standards

    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

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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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  • Drainage Design using Points - Interpolate by Relative Location

    Drainage Design using Points - Interpolate by Relative Location

    Civil 3D has a plethora of point creation methods at our disposal.

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  • Sharing Civil 3D Data with Autodesk Docs and BIM Collaborate Pro

    Sharing Civil 3D Data with Autodesk Docs and BIM Collaborate Pro

    Discover how to leverage Autodesk Construction Cloud, featuring Autodesk Docs and BIM Collaborate Pro for seamless data sharing.

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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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  • Cyclone 3DR Plant

    Cyclone 3DR Plant

    Over time, 3DR has evolved to offer various modules catering to diverse use cases, including Standard, AEC, Survey, and Tank options, alongside a Pro option encompassing all modules except Tank.

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