Civil 3D 2027 introduces Daylight Feature Line, a powerful new tool that automates the creation of daylight lines from grading criteria - streamlining your grading workflow.
Daylight Feature Line for Civil 3D 2027 is a tech preview. What is a Tech Preview?
Automated Daylight Generation
Generate daylight feature lines directly from existing grading criteria. Created feature lines behave as standard feature lines, allowing full editing flexibility with familiar tools.
Flexible Command Options
Fine-tune your daylight feature line creation with comprehensive command options:
- Grading Criteria - Select from available criteria
- Station Range - Define start and end stations
- Side - Specify the side where the daylight feature line will be located
- Layer - Assign to desired layer
- Name and Style - Apply custom naming and styling
Feature Line Stability and Performance
- Improved Stability - Multiple crash scenarios have been addressed, particularly around feature line operations like weed, insert intermediate points, and undo/redo actions.
- Better Performance - Siteless feature line edit operations (select, raise/lower, offset, join) are significantly faster due to optimized grading update logic.
- Enhanced Undo/Redo Reliability - Fixed several issues where undo operations caused geometry corruption, elevation point loss, or unexpected UI behavior.
- Site Operations Fix - Moving parcels between sites no longer causes crossing feature lines to disappear.