allows users to develop the rest of a design from a known point and adhere to that design constraint throughout their design process. Rail cants supported in Subassembly Composer — Rail subassemblies created in Subassembly Composer now have the ability to read the cant that has been calculated on the alignment and then use those cant values to build a corridor that accurately reflects the calculated cant. Batch saves — Multiple drawings and tem- plate files can be opened and saved to the latest versions of Civil 3D using the Autodesk Batch Save Utility. Custom scripts can also be included in the batch operation, such as a script for drawing cleanup that runs the Purge and Audit commands on every drawing. This feature can be an enormous time-saver when moving a project to a newer version of Civil 3D, eliminating the need to individually open, save, and perform cleanup for the hundreds or thousands of drawings in a project. In addi- tion, it runs outside of the Civil 3D software environment and therefore doesn’t slow down ongoing production, according to Autodesk. Drawing comparison — The new AutoCAD DWG Compare feature identifies and visually displays the differences between two draw- ings. Objects that were modified, added, or removed are displayed in a new comparison drawing using different colors to highlight the differences. Import InfraWorks roads as Civil 3D corridors — Component roads imported from InfraWorks will automatically become Civil 3D corridors of simple assemblies and subassemblies. This expands the interoper- ability between InfraWorks and Civil 3D and strengthens the connection of BIM processes on infrastructure projects. Shared views — The Shared Views tool pro- vides a quick and simple way to share models and drawings in the cloud, the company said. Anyone can view and comment on the shared view by using a free Autodesk account, even if they do not have an Autodesk product in- stalled.
Teams can collaborate on InfraWorks models using the Autodesk BIM 360 platform.
InfraWorks roads imported to Civil 3D 2019 automatically generate as Civil 3D corridors.
Fixed vertical curves can be defined in Civil 3D 2019 alignments by specifying low/high points.
Information provided by Autodesk (www.autodesk.com).
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