In this article Shawn Herring explores several often-overlooked features within Civil 3D that can significantly enhance workflow efficiency. These include improved surface editing capabilities, advanced labeling techniques, streamlined grading transitions, efficient corridor editing within the Section Editor, innovative parcel creation methods, enhanced stage storage analysis, and the utilization of the Volumes Dashboard for effective earthwork management. By incorporating these tips and tricks, Civil 3D users can streamline their design processes and achieve greater efficiency in their projects.
Jordan Bullock takes a closer look at the technologies and ideas that are redefining AECO’s future. These key takeaways from AU24 reveal how Autodesk is empowering professionals to lead projects with precision, efficiency, and a clear focus on sustainability.
Shawn Herring takes us through Project Explorer and looks at the many reporting methods for creating tables and exporting reports!
Victor Aguilar brings us the important production process aspect of always having neat and organized project files, and how that’s just the beginning.
John Mayo talks about the Grading Optimization (GO) extension in Civil 3D and explains two examples of grading criteria would be minimum/maximum slopes in an area and a building floor elevation. GO works with simple polylines from your dwg file to derive a grading solution fast!
Anton Huizinga shares how some questions trigger to take a deep dive into the subject while sharing his own questions such as: how (apart from requesting the original drawing) can you restore the symbols and elevation texts back into Cogo Points? Or, because the original objects are gone and unrecoverable, how to create new Cogo Points with the original location properties?
Shawn Herring talks about his use of Civil 3D almost every day mostly for single family land development projects. He mentions how almost every project he starts, or potential project, begins with some sort of GIS data, either for boundaries or for topo, prior to sending out his survey crews to capture data.
Shawn Herring discusses what Change Management really is in the world of civil engineering while taking a deep dive into ways Civil 3D currently helps in managing change, looking at several projects who underwent change management concerns and processes.
Shawn Herring highlights a few new things, features, and functionalities in AutoCAD platform products in 2025, as well as Civil 3D 2024.2 and 2024.3!
Shawn Herring helps us navigate the little things that go unnoticed in Civil 3D and lists some of his favorite little tasks, some new, and some oldies but goodies!
Stephen Walz runs through his thought process of a recent D4C3D script initially developed as a Proof of Concept (POC) that turned into a scalable solution supporting our data processing and mining efforts that have provided many value-adds to our project.
Shawn Herring simply wants to expand his thought process as he looks at the different types of projects that he’s involved in. So, this article looks at what he believes are some of the biggest trends within the Civil infrastructure space.
Shawn Herring talks about his experience with Autodesk software, specifically Civil 3D, and outlines his approach when being engaged on a Civil 3D consulting opportunity.
Shawn Herring delves into the impact of AI on civil engineering design, exploring its applications, benefits, challenges, and the path forward. Shawn also discusses how AI has been used in our everyday Autodesk products for years and how they’ve already been assisting us in disguise!
Shawn Herring discusses some best practices for Civil 3D implementation, based on industry expertise and real-world experience.
Shawn Herring talks all about some of the great new features and functionalities in Civil 3D 2024 and how to use them!
Meredith Chamberlain shares how the power of Civil 3D is not just in its design, but also its ability to help us create the documentation of that design which is where Civil 3D labels come into play. Meredith includes many tools available in Civil 3D to enable you to leverage your labels to be more knowledgeable, more efficient, and more informative!
Bryson Anderson spreads his knowledge of how the collaboration for Civil 3D module of BIM Collaborate Pro is constantly advancing, adding new features and improved speed. Utilizing BIM Collaborate Pro, you can improve your Civil 3D workflow extending collaboration anywhere, anytime!
Shawn Herring focuses on the CAD Standards Checker tool in AutoCAD as well as the Reference Template options that are considered the proper CAD Standards setup, but he dives deep into the world of standards between the lines.
Shawn Herring explores the many ways of utilizing GIS data in your everyday workflows. He talks about the ways from simply dropping in shape files, to connecting with the Autodesk Connector to ArcGIS GeoBIM!
