About Project Explorer

What is Project Explorer?

Project Explorer is an all-in-one hub for managing the contents of and extracting information from Civil 3D models. It helps users to review, validate, report, export and edit models.

Project Explorer helps users to gain a better understanding of their design, and to more efficiently control the distribution of geometric information to project stakeholders.

Key features

  • Project Explorer features a tabbed user interface divided into object categories such as Alignments, Corridors, and Pipe Networks. Each tab features a wide range of information in both tabular and graphical formats. Content can be easily filtered, configured, and reviewed by the user, and many parameters can be edited directly from the Project Explorer window.
  • Geometric reports can be exported to a range of popular file formats including Excel spreadsheets and PDF files.
  • Object Sets can hold persistent object selections for export to geometric reports, tables or other AutoCAD drawings. Updates can be applied to exported documents when subsequent design changes are applied in Civil 3D.
  • Project Explorer is entirely style driven, which ensures that reports, AutoCAD tables, and the Project Explorer user interface itself can be easily configured to the requirements of each user, project, or organization.
  • Project Explorer displays a range of warning tooltips for areas of the design which might not meet specified rules or design standards, or objects which may require further scrutiny. For example, pipes might be too long or short, or too deep or shallow; and profiles might have start/end stations which fall slightly beyond the station range of their host alignments. These scenarios, and many others, are far easier to spot in the Project Explorer window.
  • Project Explorer features a wide array of tools for reviewing and editing pipe networks such as a multiple part swap tool and pipe run editor.

Browse the product tutorials to help get up to speed quickly with Project Explorer.