New Features in Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2017
Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2017 contains the following new features and enhancements.
Corridors
- The process for extracting solids from corridors has been enhanced. New options are available for selecting the corridor areas to extract within corridor regions, station ranges, or closed polygonal areas. When created in the same drawing as the corridor or corridor reference, the solids can now be created with a dynamic link to the corridor so they update when the corridor is updated. A Property Data page is now included in the wizard which you can use to automatically associate property data with the solids, such as corridor name, region name, and code name. For more information, see To Extract Corridor Solids.
- In addition to alignments and profiles, you can now use feature lines as corridor baselines. You can select the feature lines when creating the corridor and when adding baselines. The feature lines that you can use can be created from the feature line creation tools. Corridor feature lines cannot be used directly but can be used if extracted from the corridor.
- An option is now provided for controlling whether corridor feature lines can cross a baseline. For example, in certain situations, such as with a divided highway, part of a corridor design may need to cross the centerline and this can require that the corresponding feature lines also cross the centerline.
- Where corridor tangents intersect at a corner, and where the corridor is created at a fixed width, the inner and outer corners of corridors are cleaned up automatically. For more information, see About Corner Cleanup for Corridors.
Data Shortcuts
- You can now create data shortcuts for corridors so you can reference them into other drawings. When you create a data shortcut for a corridor, shortcuts are also created for the alignments and profiles that make up the corridor baselines. If corridor baselines are comprised of feature lines, shortcuts are not created independently for those feature lines. For more information, see To Work With Data Shortcuts and To Create Corridor References.
- You can now save the geometry of a reference surface in the drawing that contains the data shortcut reference. If you choose to save the geometry of a reference surface in the drawing, the drawing that contains the reference will become larger, but will open more quickly unless the source surface has changed. For more information, see To Work With Surface References.
- You can now create multiple data shortcut references at once, by either right-clicking the data shortcuts and selecting the Create Reference command, or by selecting them and dragging them into the drawing. This functionality is available from the Data Shortcuts collection in Prospector and in the Data Shortcut Manager dialog box. For more information, see To Work With Data Shortcut References and To Manage Data Shortcuts.
- You can now control whether notifications appear at the drawing status bar when data shortcut references are out of date and need to be synchronized. For more information, see To Synchronize a Reference Object.
External Style Management
- You can now keep styles in your drawing synchronized with the styles in external reference templates. Reference templates simplify the management of your drawing styles and keep them up to date.
Object and Data Shortcut Subfolders
- You can now create subfolders within Prospector and the Data Shortcut Manager. Right-click an object collection or a data shortcut collection and click Create Folder. You can drag-and-drop existing objects into the new folders, and you can place folders inside other folders. When you create references to data shortcuts that are stored in subfolders, the subfolder structure is replicated in the consumer drawing. For more information, see To Manage Data Shortcuts and About the Toolspace Prospector Tab.
Pressure Network Content
The following new pressure network catalogs are included.
| Catalog Name | Material | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Imperial_AWWA_HDPE | HDPE pipes and ductile iron fittings and valves | New catalog: 24 fittings / 2 pipes / 14 valves |
| Imperial_AWWA_PVC | PVC pipes and ductile iron fittings and valves | New catalog: 78 fittings / 6 pipes / 18 valves / 1 hydrant |
| Imperial_AWWA_Steel | Steel pipes and ductile iron fittings and valves | New catalog: 48 fittings / 5 pipes / 18 valves |
| Imperial_AWWA_Flanged | Ductile iron | Updated catalog: Added 9 fittings and 7 valves |
| Imperial_AWWA_Mechanical | Ductile iron | Updated catalog: Added 11 valves |
For more information on specifying a pressure network catalog, see To Specify the Pressure Network Catalog.
Roundabouts
- The roundabout-related features from Autodesk® Vehicle Tracking have been integrated into AutoCAD Civil 3D. These commands create a new type of roundabout object. For more information, see About Roundabouts.
- You can now bring roundabouts into an AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing from Autodesk® InfraWorks® 360. For more information, see About Exchanging Data Between AutoCAD Civil 3D and Autodesk InfraWorks 360.
Spiral Support
- Support has been added for a new spiral type, New South Wales (NSW) Cubic Spiral. For more information, see About Spiral Definitions.
Autodesk Vault
- You can now add corridors to Autodesk Vault projects. Alignments and profiles which are used as the corridor baselines are also added to a project when you add the corridor.
Integration of the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Productivity Packs and Extensions
The following features in the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 productivity packs and extensions have been integrated into AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017:
Productivity Pack 1 Feature
- Earthwork Plan Production: Inserts labels in a grid and tables that contain information about the volume of the earthwork between two TIN surfaces.
Productivity Pack 2 Features
- Extract Feature Lines from Corridors: You can now extract multiple feature lines from within corridor regions or closed polygonal areas. New options are available for selecting the feature lines to extract, and you can use new name template options to add corridor-related properties to the feature line names.
- Define property sets: You can add property data to AutoCAD Civil 3D objects and AutoCAD entities by using property sets. This data can be used within AutoCAD Civil 3D or in other applications you use in your workflow including Autodesk® Navisworks® and Autodesk® BIM 360™ Glue®.
Transportation Extension Features
- Horizontal Alignment Report: Creates a report that lists the horizontal tangent, curve, and station equation information for a range of stations for specified alignments
- Alignment Relation Report: Creates a report that lists information for staking out an offset alignment from stations on the primary alignment
- Corridor Points Report: Creates a report that lists specified corridor point code properties, such as station and offset, relative to a specified alignment
- Slope Stake Report: Creates a report that lists the cross sectional and slope break data along the selected link within the selected corridor
- Points Report: Creates a report that lists user-specified COGO point properties for a selection of points
- Point Proximity Report: Creates a report that lists duplicate points either in the drawing or a survey database that are located within a specified horizontal tolerance of each other
- Radial or Consecutive Inverse Report: Creates a report that lists coordinate, angle and distance, and slope information for a list of specified COGO points, either consecutively, or radially from an occupied COGO point
- Profile Geometry Report: Creates a report that lists profile curve design violations for passing sight distance, headlight sight distance, and stopping sight distance
- Profile Report: Creates a report that compares a profile's parameters with its specified design criteria
- Profile Vertical Curve Report: Creates a report that lists information for crest and sag vertical curves
- Profile PVI Report: Creates a report that lists the station, elevation, and grade out for each PVI in existing and finished ground profiles, as well as vertical curve information for finished ground profiles
- Project Summary Report: Creates a report that lists information about project data, survey database information, and data shortcuts
- Metes and Bounds Report: Creates a report that lists legal descriptions in metes and bounds for a selected alignment, parcel, or survey figure
- Survey Figure Node and Point Report: Creates a report that lists user-specified survey figure node and point data based on a specified survey database and filters
- Survey Figures Report: Creates a report that lists figure properties based on a selected survey database and user-specified filters
- Survey Points Report: Creates a report that lists user-specified properties for all survey points in a specified survey database
- Line By Direction and Distance: Draws AutoCAD LINE segments by referencing bearings and distances, locations selected in the drawing, or COGO points
- Parcel Properties Manager: Manages parcel properties
- Convert RW5 to FBK: Converts a RW5 file into an FBK file that can be imported into an AutoCAD Civil 3D survey database
- Convert Star*Net DAT to FBK: Converts a Star*Net DAT file to an FBK file that can be imported into an AutoCAD Civil 3D survey database
- Edit Least Squares Input (LSI) File: Edits or creates a least squares input file
- Quick Cross Section: Creates temporary cross sections of a surface
- Surface High/Low Points: Creates COGO points at the high and low points of a surface in relation to watersheds
New Features in Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2017
For information about new features in AutoCAD, please see the New Features Overview Video and the New Commands and System Variables Reference in the AutoCAD Help.
New Features in Autodesk® AutoCAD® Map 3D 2017
For information about new features in AutoCAD Map 3D, please see the New in This Release topic in the AutoCAD Map 3D Help.