In this section, we’ll begin to learn all about assemblies and why they are considered to be the building blocks of all transportation-focused designs. Although a Residential Subdivision wouldn’t necessarily be considered a transportation design, our project requires us to design two roads, two intersections, one dead end, and one cul-de-sac. That said, assemblies in our design scenario are still going to be foundational modeled objects that will be utilized to execute an accurate roadway design.

Without further ado, let’s jump into our Assembly Creation and Management tools. We can access our basic Assembly tools by going back up to the Home ribbon, navigating to the Create Design panel, and selecting the down arrow next to Assembly.

As shown in Figure 10.2, we can see that we have two assembly tools available to us: Create Assembly and Add Assembly Offset:

Figure 10.2 – Home | Create Design ...