Civil 3D Essentials

This course will instruct you on the essentials of Civil 3D and covers a number of topics that relate to the civil engineering discipline, including land development, transportation engineering and utility and infrastructure design.

Topics Include:

Introducing Autocad Civil 3d: As an introduction to this course, attendees will become familiar with the Civil 3D ribbon interface as well as with some of the common dialog windows encountered in day?to?day design.

The Lay Of The Land: Survey And Points: Attendees will touch upon the basics of creating and editing survey information and traditional point data as well as learn the underlying relationships between point data and surface creation. In addition, the control of Civil 3D points using description keys and groups will be explored alongside several methods of importing in data from external sources for use.

Groundbreaking: Civil 3d Surfaces: This portion of the class will focus on the various methods for creating and making changes to Civil 3D surfaces. Students will become familiar with the process by which Civil 3D creates surface geometry and how to leverage Civil 3D to run complex analyses on these surfaces.

Working As A Team: Data Shortcuts: The basics of using Data Shortcuts to exchange project data in real?time will be examined here. Additionally, other means of sharing information, such as using Vault and the Autodesk Data Management Server, will be discussed alongside the benefits/detriments of using one method
over another.

The Winding Road: Alignments: The creation, editing and labeling of horizontal control elements will be covered in this section. Attendees will have a basic understanding of the relationships between alignment lines and curves and be introduced to the fundamentals of rule?based road design as per AASHTO standards.

Up A Hill, Down A Mountain: Profiles And Profile Views: Students will look at and familiarize themselves with the sampling and creation methods for establishing vertical control elements. In addition time will be spent investigating options for building profile views to reflect the formats your design practice may require for production drawings.

Rubber Meets The Road: Corridors: The means and methods of creating corridors will be the focus of this section, beginning with an introduction to Civil 3D assemblies for defining cross?sectional design elements. Then, using a combination of horizontal, vertical and cross?sectional objects students will create a corridor and learn the corelational and dynamic relationships that are established amongst the involved design elements used in creating the corridor.