Augi World February

As you all are probably aware, AutoCAD® Civil 3D® is built on top of Autodesk® Map 3D®, and Map 3D is built on top of AutoCAD®, so Civil 3D has all of its own functionality plus the functions of the other two separate pieces of software.

Now Civil 3D can’t really be used without using some of the commands and functions of AutoCAD. We still draw basic objects, we still plot and use layers. The list of AutoCAD tools is enormous in itself, and then we add all of the civil-specific functions and we have an enormous number of tools at our disposal. This leads me to the biggest reason why we tend to overlook all of the

Map functions at our disposal: We may be overwhelmed with tools and commands, even before we start to explore all of the functionality that Map has to offer!

Civil 3D Guide to 10 Map 3D Tools

• Tool 1 – Coordinates
  
• Tool 2 – Drawing Cleanup
  
• Tool 3 – Inserting Raster Images
  
• Tool 4 – Source Drawing Queries
  
• Tool 5 – Attribute Data
  
• Tool 6 – Object Classification
  
• Tool 7 – Stylizing features
  
• Tool 8 – Map Import
  
• Tool 9 – Map Books
  
• Tool 10 – Feature Object Data
  

Really? I mean, really? There are Civil 3D Users who do not, and do not know how to use Map 3D. Next you'll be telling me there are Civil Engineers who do not know how to to use Civil 3D (or InRoads, or both).

Gentlemen, put away those slide rules, for we have a new tool, its called a c-a-l-c-u-l-a-t-o-r.