Lime Columns and Piles in Naviate Civil 3D
Naviate contains several commands to create piles. This blogpost will focus on Lime Columns and Piles later this fall we'll cover Sheet Piles and Anchors.
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Plan production solutions in Naviate Civil 3D
In version 2023.2 of Naviate for Civil 3D we included a new set of features aimed at plan production. These features can take any layout of View frames, whether they are created along an alignment or if they are in a grid pattern, and use them as a base for creating multiple Layouts with the aid of a script.
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Walk path with Sub Structure in Naviate for Civil 3D
As much as I like to create complex corridors, sometimes you don’t need or want to go through all the steps that are required to create a corridor. In my example I am doing a short S-shaped walk path. The path itself is created by featurelines, which gives me a lot of freedom with the shape. It is easy to make the path wider in some areas or even add some steps if needed.
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Pipe Trench with a Road-datum surface and a Rock-surface
Volume calculation for a Pipe Trench can range from easy as pie to complex as a maze. One aspect that complicates matters is that there is infinite (at least it feels like it) number of section layouts, and all of them need to be considered when creating a method for volume calculating. Almost everything is solvable though, and this post will explain what you need when working with multiple surfaces.
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Select objects in Civil 3D with Naviate
We all know how to select an object. We click on it. Is there more to selecting objects? There can be!
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Import information from Excel with Naviate Plant Data
Naviate Plant Data is an easy way of importing information from an Excel-file and apply the information to Civil 3D or AutoCAD objects. In this blog post I will describe how to go from information in a spread sheet in Excel to information attached to your design elements.
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Format management - SHP-files and Naviate for Civil 3D
One of the challenges that we have working with Civil 3D is that we have a lot of different formats to handle. This could be both to export to and import from. In this blogpost I will focus on the SHP-format and were Naviate will come in to help you handle the format.
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How to use Property Set and Match Properties to solids for retaining wall in Naviate Civil 3D
This post is part 3/3 in a series on retaining wall.
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How to add AMA code to Property Set from external CSV-file in Civil 3D
This post explains how to import a code e.g. “AMA kod”, by reading and matching settings from an external CSV-file. The CSV-file needs to have at least two columns where one is the “AMA kod” and one is e.g. the Civil 3D Code such as Pave1, Base, Slitlager, Bärlager etc.
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