What is your favorite On-Line Civil 3D training? Best value?

Not an online course but if you have a little extra budget to spare, I'd recommend adding this book to the company CAD library [Ascent Civil 3D 2022 Fundamentals for Surveyors] --

https://www.amazon.com/Autodesk-Civil-2022-Fundamentals-Authorized/dp/1956032061

It's a great reference manual with many good screenshots and explanations of a few of the different things survey techs will do (surface building, point styles, annotative labels, etc.). It's by no means a do-this, don't-do-that procedures experience that you would get from a human instructor, but it will explain all the different choices that come with the drafting commands.

I'll second the recommendation of the Fundamentals for Surveyors book above.

I've not actually run through the course itself, but I have heard good things about Imaginit training.

I go to their site fairly often when I am looking for some help on a particular routine, so I'd say they have a good grasp of the concepts and can explain them pretty well.

All of that aside though, I haven't yet seen a comprehensive course that gets down into the weeds on what surveyors really need to know in C3D.

Following along and would also throw in there that if there is a course with construction calculation tips that would be great.  I feel like I'm still doing things the old fashioned way.  

The Imaginit training is useful and is good but you'll never beat hands on training from someone that knows the software.  The imaginit is amazingly inexpensive as well. We use it for people starting out so and then refine with on the job training from there.

@andy j

The best $ you will ever  spend if you're doing construction calcs is Sincpac.  it will pay for itself in one day.  It's very powerful and there is a lot to it.  It's not a AAA product but has AAA value.  It's made by surveyors for surveyors.  I don't know how we lived without it. It saves us hours each day when doing calcs. 

Are you thinking about general CAD techniques that you’d learn in a college-level course? (e.g. fillet, OSNAPZ, mleaders…) 

I’ve always wanted to make a playlist of the videos on YouTube that I like, but I’m guessing you want more structure than that if it’s on-the-clock-training.

I’m not sure I’ve seen this playlist yet:

I’m going to be interested in what people say here - up to this point I have never seen anyone demonstrate how to fully use the Survey Tab (e.g. updating and operating survey databases & figures, populating and utilizing COGO scale factor fields, transformations, exporting a database’s surfaces/points/breaklines as a transmittal…)

@andy-j 

Old fashioned like this:

@jitterboogie 

How did you get that video from my office??  

HI

I have tried several. IMHO CADAPULT software solution by Rick Ellis is hands down the best I have ever tried. Best value for the money.

HI

I have tried several. IMHO CADAPULT software solution by Rick Ellis is hands down the best I have ever tried. Best value for the money.