We need a better way to manage styles than this right-click-one-at-a-time or the nuclear purgestyles command. One it archaic, and the other is like taking chemo for a head cold.  Show More

Requesting to consider the development of Standardized Data Tool (SDT) for Civil 3D (C3D) to make it compatible with Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) projects. Request based on users' comments. As of today, SDT for C3D does not work with ACC--it does not open files directly form DOCs. Based on user's comments, it would be a great tool to be incorporated into ACC, considering that many of them are migrating from local to cloud solutions. Show More

I would like to be able to show delta angles in a label (on the right) for pressure fittings. Currently we pull this from an alignment label (shown on left).   the geometry is in the part; we just want access to reference it in the label either directly or through an expression. Show More

We are asking to change the default behaviour of the setting "Adjacent to offset target start/end" in the Frequence settings for a corridor in C3D. As per Help, it says that the setting specifies whether the assembly should be inserted adjacent to the offset target start and end. This setting creates stations at a small distance before the offset target start and after the offset target end, rather than creating the stations exactly at the offset target start and end. For more information, see About Changing the Frequency of Stations in a Corridor Region.   But at the moment, it also means the target is not dynamic and if the target is moved, the user must go through all the additional sections to add and move those additional frequency points. Show More

When targetting to all the geometry (feature lines) of a certain layer, sometimes you get undesired results such as targetting to the wrong side of the corridor, using elevations from geometry of the other side of the corridor baseline,... You can prevent targetting to the wrong side by using the option 'Use targets on the same side as the subassembly'. BUT, this option is only available when using horizontal/width targets.  This option should also be available with elevation/profile targets to prevent subassemblies target to e.g. elevations of feature lines in the other side of the corridor baseline. This could prevent the use of 'double layers' (layer_left and layer_right) to work around the lack of this option. Show More

Civil 3D does not have an option to dynamically label feature line properties—such as name, elevation, etc., when those lines are projected into a profile view. Consider extending the label styles to the projected feature line. To Work With Styles for Projected Objects in Profile View.   Show More

For featureline creation and editing there are a couple ways to identify the vertex elevations and grades.   1. Elevation Editor Panorama: it is useful, but difficult to identify which vertex or tangent grade you are editing and is disconnected visually from what you are editing.     2. Quick Elevation Edit Button: This is also a handy tool that allows you to see and edit the elevation or grade directly onscreen by clicking on the vertex or tangent.  Yes, useful, but you can only see the single elevation or grade you are hovering over.       3. Create Line and Curve Labels: Last is to create your own labels that add the start/end elevations and a grade label on the tangents. Must create separate labels for curves.  Labeling is the only option to see the information fulltime.  It is time consuming and adds needless extra content in your dwgs. A big drawback to "Labeling" is, if you add another vertex somewhere along the featureline - All the labels shuffle to the left each time you add a vertex. Leaving the last segment to require re-labeling.   THE SOLUTION: Add a new button to the Featureline Modify ribbon to toggle on/off temp graphics that label the slopes/elevations for all feature lines. Perhaps it can by applied to only a certain site or certain featurelines within that site.   Add a new property to featurelines that would either Enable/Disable this new toggle of the temp graphics for that featureline. Then the user can control which featurelines show their information.   Add a C3D settings for this toggle feature that would control the: - size of text - color of text - decimals for elevation and grade/slope - preference for Grade or Slope display - only show temp graphics below a certain screen zoom height.   I feel this would eliminate a lot of labeling and management of text that is not even required.              Show More

Please, please please update Part Builder for pipe networks. There are so many structures that need to be created for many offices and Part Builder is just not up to the task or takes a significant amount of time to accomplish.   This has been needed since Part Builder was realeased.   PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Show More

Currently, Civil 3D is unable to create a label style expression that can for example do this: {Surface Elevation} - {General Segment Start Z}. This is because the {Surface Elevation} parameter is under the "Surface" label style parameters and the {General Segment Start Z} parameter is under the "Line" label style parameters and Civil 3D does not allow expressions using variables from different feature classes. Please consider adding the capability for users to write expressions like this. Show More

When we are defining an alignment with a free curve by Radius we have to try several Radius value until it is accepted. C3d is saying, "There is no solution" with each typed radius. In my opinion, c3d knows the maxium valid Radius for that scenario so if I select typing a Radius, c3d should suggest us which maximum value is. Or more details about what " no solution" means: There is not any solution, typed radius is huge...etc..   Message like  no solution. Radius is too much big. Maximum accepted radius is... Thanks. Show More

The title says it all, a new inquiry type that displays the elevation of two different surfaces at the same point. This would make checking for cut and fill during design significantly quicker without trying to hover or add labels. Show More

With the BIM4i, BIM for Infrastructure, transition to the model(s) as legal deliverables vs. typical flat PDFs, the creation of dynamic 3D C3D labels needs to be considered (this is addition to attached Property Sets) What do I mean? Labels placed on a Civil 3D object rotates to maintain visibility/readability when the view is rotated to 'model' view. Currently, all C3D labels stay at elevation 0 [except contour labels and COGO Point Labels. However, they remain oriented to the XY plane] To start, these new label types should be visible in the new Civil Model Viewer within C3D. Show More

The struggle we have is the way Trimble Business Center (TBC) and C3D handles the Join to Point Code (JTP) command. TBC needs a space between the JTP and the point ID that point is joining. C3D requires no space.   We use the Join to Point Code (JTP) quite frequently when we are processing survey data. When points are being surveyed in the field, we strive to keep all edits tied to the point with feature coding. This ensures that when the survey is processed, it will automatically draw the features correctly and the user will not have to manually connect features in the different programs we use. Feature lines are automatically drawn in using like features and draws sequentially based on point ID. Any time a point is surveyed outside of the “numerical sequence” you must force the feature lines to connect. This also includes points that were collected on different files on the same data collector, as well as different data collectors all together. Each “job” that the points come from will not continue the feature chain across the separate jobs. We try to alleviate this by making sure the data is surveyed in a way to not try to continue chains, but that is not always the case.   The JTP command is the way we force all of these connections. Our current process is to collect the survey data in Trimble access. We import that data into Trimble Business Center and perform any edits to the points to get the feature lines to draw correctly. Once we get the edits complete, we will export out a .CSV with attributes. This .CSV will then be imported into C3D in a survey database. Once the survey database is C3D, we run the extended attribute command to get the attributes to attach to the points.   In TBC we would have feature coding that looks like this. EOP EL JTP 50100 C3D the same feature would look like EOP EL JTP50100   Currently this is being handled with taking the .CSV and performing a Find/Replace to get rid of the space and saving the new .CSV. That workflow works. The only issue I have is we still have a .CSV that only works in one program. Many times, we take a .CSV back and forth from one program to the other. A person must keep track of the JTP commands in the file they are working on and ensure they have it configured correctly for the program they are planning to use it in. The downfall arises when someone else uses the file. They need to know which program the file is compatible with in its current state. I believe it just leaves room for error.   I would like to see if the JTP command could add a space between the JTP command and the point number it is targeting.   Or if we want to come up with a different way of bringing in points and not use the .csv, but I assume it would somehow still use the point codes.   Show More

When creating Infrastructure Parts Editor (IPE) content, you need to model 3 elements in Inventor: Underground Structure, Surface Structure and grate/cover. These are assembled in IPE as an entire Structure and used as such in Civil 3D via the Generic Pipe Structure Catalogs (or your own IPE based catalog). For documentation purposes, it would be helpful to be able to divide ('explode') those structures to their original components, e.g. to dimension the different parts per used structure in the network. Export C3D Drawing, 'ExportToAutoCAD', explode,... results in one single 3D solid or just AutoCAD Surfaces/Regions, which are unusable for this purpose. Show More

It would be great if you could list and or label the inverts of two crossing utilities, like storm and sanitary. Much like and interference check, but with a label.  Show More

Depending on the triangulation size of a surface and the weeding factor, it can happen that gaps in the Section View band appear when labeling section lengths. The idea is to aggregate the weeded segments and label the length of the aggregated segments. This way there will be no gaps in the band style.  Show More

Multiple requests:   https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/civil-3d-customization-forum/combine-pressure-network-catalogs-or-transfer-parts-from-one/td-p/12664707 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/civil-3d-customization-forum/combining-two-or-more-sqlite-files/td-p/11921079 This is a very useful feature. I know we can combine multiple part catalogs into a single Parts list. But they are still not the same thing.  Show More

This is more of an AutoCAD request, but there is no AutoCAD Ideas page.     I would like to see sheet set manager have the ability to automatically rename and renumber multiple sheets.  Currently, we must push forth to each sheet in the sheet set manager to renumber multiple sheets.  I know Sincpac has a tool that does this, but why should we pay extra for a tool which appears to be something that can simply be added to the current tools?  Could this be justified by our subscription costs?     Show More

Like what you have in Grading Optimization. It's so much faster if this isn't tied to the surface style. Show More