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.

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.

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.

With Project Explorer, users can
-Simplify project data navigation, review, and design model editing.
-More easily discover and evaluate design criteria warnings to help meet design standards.
-Efficiently generate custom reports and tables that help meet delivery requirements.

As you can see, Project Explorer capabilities include powerful report and table generation, enhanced editing and design review tools, and much more.

-Review your Civil 3D design model through a tabbed series of object lists, profile and section views, parameter lists, and many other design review tools.
-Double-click any highlighted parameter to directly edit your design.
-Validate your design using an extensive range of dynamic tooltips that reveal portions of the model which may not meet design specifications.
-Automate the production of user-configurable reports, spreadsheets, dynamic tables, and AutoCAD drawings from any part of your Civil 3D model.

Combability
Civil 3D 2023