Hi everyone. I’m new to civil3D and have a question.

Would someone be able to recommend a workflow for creating intersections? I always run into trouble when modeling them. It’s frustrating.

The one I’m currently working on is a T intersection, but the side road turns directly after the intersection. In addition to this, the right hand lane on the side road needs to initially be 6 extra feet wide(18ft total) and then taper back down to a regular 12ft lane, as this is an intersection busses will be going through often.

I’ll actually draw up a picture of the basic geometry of the intersection to attach to this post.

I often run into problems making the curb return profile matching up with the offset alignment profiles. Is that because offset profiles don’t automatically take into account any type of lane slope changes such as superelevation?

Another big problem is the lane widening part. I don’t want it to be linear. As seen in the picture, it’s a sudden/sharp taper instead of being smooth. In addition to that, due to the side road being curved and the taper being linear, that right hand lane actually ends up going from the 18ft, LESS than 12 ft, then back up to 12 ft. This is obviously incorrect but I’m not sure how to fix it.

If anyone could offer some general guidance for this type of intersection modeling, that would be awesome.

Any CAD Techs ever start a side business doing redlines, overflow work, or As-built redlines? I was thinking about working full time then doing 10-20 hrs on the side. My company is ok with it, I’d just get my own pc and software.

Hi everyone.

I’m still new to civil3D and have a lot to learn, but I have a question.

I’ve recently been introduced to the intersection tool, and at first glance, it seemed awesome. Seemed like a really nice way to streamline intersection creation. But the more I used it, the more I found myself getting frustrated at it. It seems to consistently cause me more problems than almost anything else in civil3D. I’m constantly finding myself having to change so much of what it has done, struggle to figure out what exactly is causing the problems in my intersection, and sometimes have to delete the intersection and restart it.

Maybe I’m just inexperienced with it and still need to learn a lot, but I don’t know.

Does anyone actually use this tool frequently? Is it required? Can I accurately create my corridor and intersections without using this tool? Or do I just need to keep trying to learn it?

One of the types of projects I do involve plotting upwards of 100+ pdfs from a single drawing that I organize by rows of 10, is there any tool or script or anything that could help me plot them all at once instead of one at at time manually changing the window?

Has anyone use the Horizontal Regression Analysis tool in 2027. I am not impressed with its Black Box approach. I like a lot more control over granular control over what points can be removed from the best fit. Would like to have a better explanation of what the denoise and spiral sensitivity sliders are doing. The Trial and error approach stinks.Also, I think it should be state that the results of the regression are just a starting point and that further refinement of the alignment is necessary.

Have any users of 2027 used the AI tools.
Also, are there any substantive improvements or new tools in 2027 itself?

What system yall using?

Im interested in CAD and like the idea of working on residential lots as well and housing development & planning, so super dumb question but what is that job title? and what software is mainly used?

Created a dynamo for today for civil 3d that contains a block that rotates to the direction the photo was taken and has hyperlink to the photo taken. I also was able to transform the points from Lat/Long to local coordinate system.

The last thing I’m stuck on is getting the string from the file to project into cad on the point and looking for suggestions.

I’ve tried using attribute definitions but to no avail.

Thanks for the suggestions!

This makes me feel a bit dumb to ask but here I go anyways.

Long story short, I have a plat for an older area that's 90% curves with a radius, a delta, and an arc length. I have always struggled with curves when I'm not coming off another object. I know how to create curves using the built in civil command and how to make them by using a chord bearing and delta to trim a circle but I'm getting completely stumped with an area that is ALL curves with no solid lines to come off of.

I'm relatively new (a couple years in office) where we primarily do residential stuff so assistance would be well appreciated. If you have any questions you may need please let me know and I'll try to answer them best I can.

Tldr, I need assistance in ensuring accurate curve drawing and placement when the curves are the intersections

Hi guys. I’m new to Civil3D and AutoCad in general. And I have a question.

I’m working on a sidewalk project. Normally, I like to draw vertical lines on my profile view at the exact stations where my alignment crosses a road. Reason being, there will ofc be a crosswalk there, and I DONT want to mess with the actual road at all. So I need to have my FG profile match those elevations where the alignment intersects the road.

That’s why I draw those vertical lines where the road is. It allows me to see where I need to match the elevation of the EG.

Normally, I do this with the transparent command “profile station elevation.” But this kinda takes a good second and is a little clunky.

Does anyone know of a faster/more efficient way to do this? Maybe a way to draw lines on the actual alignment where it hits the road, and somehow have them be projected on the profile view as vertical lines?

I can normally hold my own in C3D, but been struggling with this a bit. My work is in agricultural drainage ditches, and waaay back in the EaglePoint days, we used to be able to draw in tile outlets into the profile view (at that time, it was just an oval to represent the pipe end outletting into a drainage channel).

We've done this a couple different ways over the years, none of them good, and for various reasons I haven't had to put a plan set together for.....several years. I'm messing around with the "Project to Profile View", and thinking that this will serve my purpose fairly well for what I need -- I primarily need the station and description, the pipe end on the drawing was just a cherry on top and we've gotten along without it for years.

I've got my label style set up to give me station and offset, and description of the point - the last major hiccup that I *NEED* to solve is the offset display. I don't actually care about the distance, I just need to know which side of the ditch, and my contractors are really going to want to see it in "L/R", not "+/-".

I'm sure it's something simple that I'm missing, but I haven't been able to put my finger on it..... help?

Image is the label style as it sits right now. I would be perfectly happy if the "-2" went away completely, and just stated "L"

Label text:

STA <[Source Station(Uft|FS|P0|RN|AP|Sn|TP|B2|EN|W0|OF)]> <[Source Offset(Uft|P0|RN|AP|GC|UN|Sa|OF)]>
<[Description(CU)]>

I am a surveyor, in the field, and looking to get a computer to work on my drafting from home. I would mainly be working on the topos I shoot, usually less than 20 acres, and maybe some construction calcs. Is this a good laptop to get for that? What would you guys recommend? Any good cheaper options? Thank you!

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Does anyone know what is wrong here, Why does my layout look like image one when my model looks like image 2? How do I fix this? I'm confused because I thought viewports were just supposed to show the model space as is not with all this other crap.

Hallo, I've been asked to put in my assembly so here is the assembly, there is also this weird issue seen in images 2-4, How do i go about fixing this?

Does anyone know how to get the problem seen above to stop happening? I want it to fill or cut all the way to the existing surface and have tried adding cut and fill slopes and basic daylight slopes but when i do it gives a target not found error and doesn't apply it to the roadway.

Okay I've been asked to post the assembly for the roadway, note I did change it a btibecause I saw that I couldn't have the sidewalk where the shoulder slope was the first image is the new assembly . It goes Shld Lane Lane buffer Sidewalk (basic), shld.

issue 1 : When in cut and fill the cut/fill will abruptly stop right at the end of the shoulder (images 2 and 3 I know that they are of the older alignment but the issue still stands) I want it to continue down/up to the ground surface and in trying to do so added the ditches seen in image 1, but for some reason it won't compute it giving me a target error.

Issue 2: Overhangs: I was told I need to correct my corridor surfaces with overhangs, I have two corridor surfaces, of top and datum shown in image four, and I added overhang corrections but are they the right kind for the given surface?

Hey so in making a road I made alignments, corridors, required surfaces etc etc. And made a surface that calcs the volumes of material between real ground and roadway. This gives the analyze window a surface and given cut and fill, and a factor called net adjusted

so two questions

1. This value net adjusted is not the final mass ordinate correct?

2. I also made the earthwork report shown above now for requirements of my project fill needs an extra 10% for shrinkage (its just assumed for the project) does just plotting this report give me a functioning mass ordinate diagram or do I need to do some other stuff to it Also when making this I saw that there was the option to make a mass overhaul report

Out of the two reports (earthwork, and mass overhaul) which one is with the least amount of work gonna get me to a mass ordinate report?

Lisp for quickly creating a lot details for site plan purposes from engineering CAD files

Hallo again, I am having more problems, I've tried my best here but due to my pissy laptop barely being able to run civil 3d I've found it best to ask questions then figure it out in 1 go rather than multiple. I have 3 issues

1. is there something wrong with my sidewalk placement I feel like something is wrong but don't know what exactly

2, both cut and fill the cut and fill suddenly ends right at the end of the extendall shoulder I used in the assembly. But I would for in the cut situation that it backslopes out and to the surface, and for the fill situation, continue all the way down to the surface, how do I do that?

1. I have tried a few times to put my vertical, horizontal alignments and cross sections into the layout space so I can export them as scaled pdf for my project but am struggling to get it to work properly how do I do that? (and do it to a certain scale as my project statement requires me to make them at certain scales)

I have two issues
1. For some reason when I add a basic cut fill ditch onto the far end of the basic sidewalk here I get a target dtm error message when rebuilding the corridor Why and is it possible to fix? Same thing happens when I try to add said basic cut fill ditch to the ends of the shoulder

1. Is there a way to get dimensions of the roadway to show in section view? ex: I want to show that the normal cross slopes are -2% and that the superelevated is at 4% in the section view. How do i do that?

Hello, So 2 quick questions 3rd mainly for lookies on cad

1: When civil 3d does cut and fill math, if you already calculated your superelevations does the cut and fill volume account for that? if not how do I make it account for that?

2: I have many cross sectional views of my designed road, however I am noticing that there is no showing of a road being super elevated in a cross section that should be (ex, a cross section that is within a horizontal curve) How do i make it so that the cross sections that are in superelevated sections of road show that superelevation geometry of the roadway?

3: For my cross sections I am noticing that it takes my made assembly and throws it on the section views then puts the cut and fill around that. How do I get that to change and also how do I throw on given dimensions onto said profiles (for example I want to show the %slopes of the lanes and shoulders)

Bonjour, lorsque je vais dans Covadis 3D, Courbe de niveau, automatiser sur MNT, mes courbes de niveau semblent parfaites dans la prévisualisation.(photo ci joint)

Cependant, mes courbes, au lieu de me créer un calque, se mettent dans le calque actif.

Savez-vous me guider sur la marche à suivre pour que mes courbes se mettent dans leur propre calque?

Merci