Project Explorer Tutorials Introduction

Working with Object Sets

Welcome to the Project ExplorerTutorials. Choose from the following tutorial topics to better understand how to work with Project Explorer.

Generating Quick Reports

This tutorial demonstrates the use of Project Explorer to generate a simple Civil 3D Alignment/Profile report to a PDF file. You then write the same report to an Excel XLSX file in a few simple steps.

Generating Static AutoCAD Tables

This tutorial demonstrates the use of Project Explorer to place two static AutoCAD tables into a Civil 3D drawing. The first table will contain a simple Civil 3D alignment/profile report. The second table will contain a Pipe Run Report derived from a Civil 3D pipe network.

This tutorial demonstrates the use of Object Sets in Project Explorer to simultaneously generate two broadly identical reports to a Microsoft Word DOCX file and a Microsoft Excel XLSX file. The use of object sets allows you to easily ensure that the content of both files is kept in-sync - even after a design change.

Object Sets allow complex reports to be generated, featuring a range of content from a Civil 3D model. In this example, the report will include a pipe run between two specific structures on a pipe network, and a station based report of the gutter on a corridor.

Editing the Civil 3D model

This tutorial demonstrates the use of the editing tools in Project Explorer to apply some design changes to pipes and corridors.

You'll use the new Multiple Part Swap feature to edit a Pipe Network, then use the Assembly editing tools to widen the roadway on a Corridor. Optionally, you'll then update the reports previously generated in the Working with Object Sets tutorial with a single mouse button click.