New Skill Builders Released

There have been four Skill Builders made available since I last mentioned them here in this blog. They are:

1. Sharing Corridor Assemblies in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 (April 2008)

2. Adding Cut and Fill Conditions to a Corridor Assembly (August 2008)

3. Analyzing Storm Sewer Data with the Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 (April 2009)

4. Using Dynamic GENIO Data with AutoCAD Civil 3D Shortcuts (? 2009)

If you are not familiar with Skill Builders, they help users increase their knowledge of Civil 3D by providing advanced, solution-oriented information that build on the foundation provided in the standard user documentation. They typically include a PDF file (instructions), and DWG file (practice data), and any other necessary files.

Clink on the title of this post to get to the AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Civil Skill Builders page.

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Skill Builder

I am not certain when this particular Skill Builder became available, but there is one available titled:

Managing an AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Project with Autodesk Vault

This Skill Builder is a 20 page .pdf file that demostrates how to set up a AutoCAD Civil 3D project using Autodesk Vault, how to modify project structure with Vault, and contains some best practices.

For those that are just starting down this road this can be very useful. For others this can be a good refresher.

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NEW Skill Builder

On the Skill Builders page there is a new skill builder called Using Projection Grading and Feature Lines Effectively.

Download the .zip file and extract a drawing and a 20 page .pdf file. The .pdf file contains 9 mini exercises that walk us through the concepts described in the 32 page Grading Best Practices Supplement.

Drape Image - Skill Builder

This skill builder has been available for a little while, but I had not had the opportunity to mention it yet. The 14-page "Skill Builder" titled "Draping an Image on a Surface Using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008" shows us how to just that. This includes...

1. Setting up a surface style
2. exporting design data to Google Earth to locate appropriate image location
3. Fine tuning Google Earth for suitable image
4. Importing Google Earth image
5. Draping image on to Civil 3D 2008 surface

New Skill Builder

Autodesk has posted a new Skill Builders' topic on their website. It is titled

"Profile and Profile View Styles and Labels"

This set of data and documentation provides details about creating, managing, and using appropriate styles and labels for profiles.

New Learning Method - Skill Builders

Autodesk has been reorganizing their website. While looking around I recently saw a NEW topic within the HOW-TO section. It is called Skills Builder.

Within this section Autodesk will provide Intermediate to Advanced training on specific segments of Civil 3D.

The first set available is for learning about Superelevations. There is a PDF (the exercise) and the dataset necessary to learn the topic.

To find Skill Builders click on the title of this post or find Skill Builders in the left column of this blog.


Note: I believe that I now have to fix a couple of links in the left column. If you should find any please drop me a note.