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What is a Civil 3D corridor?

What is a Civil 3D corridor? - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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What is a Civil 3D corridor?

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- [Instructor] As we begin chapter 8, and look at Civil 3D corridors, it's important to know what is a Civil 3D corridor. When AutoDesk first came out with Civil 3D corridors, and the feature really were the premier feature of Civil 3D, the ability to create 3D models of corridors. Just breaking down a corridor in a simple way; a corridor is any item that follows, or any design that follows a linear path and applies a typical section to that path. And so, often times, you'll see in different exercises, in different classes and tutorials, a corridor being applied to a roadway. And that's what you're going to see throughout our exercises as well. And so you see a corridor in the drawing now. A corridor is being applied to a roadway cul-de-sac and so forth. But ultimately, a corridor is any linear path design that follows a typical section. And you can use corridors for all of these different things. Such as, you can create roadways, you can create linear ditches. I've even seen some use…

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