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Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish

Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish

By : Stephen Walz, Tony Sabat
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Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish

Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish

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By: Stephen Walz, Tony Sabat
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Overview of this book

Autodesk Civil 3D can radically increase your civil engineering design and efficiency if you learn to make the most of its features and partner software platforms. Autodesk Civil 3D from Start to Finish will teach you how to leverage its strengths and scale efficiency to large teams. With this book, you’ll uncover all the major features Civil 3D offers, from surface development to intelligent utility design as well as dynamic display work for smart document creation. You’ll learn to configure and manage your civil engineering designs and explore practical applications of tools and modeling techniques available within the software. By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of Autodesk Civil 3D along with its partner programs to strategize and improve your future projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Disclaimer
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Conventions used
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Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Civil 3D and Starting Your Next Project for Success
Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Civil 3D and Starting Your Next Project for Success
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Civil 3D
Chapter 1: Introduction to Civil 3D
Technical requirements
What is Civil 3D?
Exploring the Civil 3D user interface
Understanding Civil 3D elements
Summary
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Chapter 2: Setting up the Design Environment
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Chapter 2: Setting up the Design Environment
Technical requirements
Exploring the Toolspace within Civil 3D
Customizing object styles and object label styles
Expediting project work with file templates
Summary
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Chapter 3: Sharing Data within Civil 3D
Chapter 3: Sharing Data within Civil 3D
Technical requirements
Understanding file relationships
Learning how data shortcuts work
Creating data shortcuts within Civil 3D
Summary
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Part 2: Designing and Modeling with Civil 3D from Scratch
Part 2: Designing and Modeling with Civil 3D from Scratch
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Chapter 4: Configuring Survey Data with Civil 3D
Chapter 4: Configuring Survey Data with Civil 3D
Technical requirements
Survey setup
Introduction to the Survey Toolspace
Existing conditions display settings
Survey workflow overview
Analyzing your existing conditions
Summary
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Chapter 5: Leveraging Points, Lines, and Curves
Chapter 5: Leveraging Points, Lines, and Curves
Technical requirements
Setting up a new file to import points from survey data
Introduction to points
Introduction to lines and curves
Summary
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Chapter 6: Surfaces - The First Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D
Chapter 6: Surfaces - The First Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D
Technical requirements
Generating a surface model
Understanding surface styles
Surface manipulation and management
Summary
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Chapter 7: Alignments - The Second Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D
Chapter 7: Alignments - The Second Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D
Technical requirements
Alignment creation
Understanding alignment styles
Alignment manipulation and management
Summary
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Chapter 8: Profiles - The Third Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D
Chapter 8: Profiles - The Third Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D
Technical requirements
Understanding the ways to create a profile
Setting up profile views
Creating design profiles
Understanding profiles and profile view styles
Further analyzing our profile and alignment geometry
Summary
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Part 3: Leveraging Design-Specific Tool Belts
Part 3: Leveraging Design-Specific Tool Belts
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Chapter 9: Land Development Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Chapter 9: Land Development Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Technical requirements
Creating and managing parcels
Creating and managing sites
Leveraging grading tools for our site design
Summary
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Chapter 10: Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Chapter 10: Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Technical requirements
Creating and managing assemblies
Creating and modifying corridors
Creating and modifying intersections and cul-de-sacs
Creating a surface from corridors
Summary
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Chapter 11: Advanced Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Chapter 11: Advanced Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Technical requirements
Updating assemblies and designing driveways
Designing a dead end
Designing our residential subdivision main entrance
Summary
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Chapter 12: Utility Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Chapter 12: Utility Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use
Technical requirements
Refining proposed Surface models to accommodate proper site drainage
Creating and modifying storm drainage pipe networks
Creating and modifying sanitary sewer pipe networks
Creating and modifying pressure networks
Summary
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Part 4: Advanced Capabilities with Civil 3D
Part 4: Advanced Capabilities with Civil 3D
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Chapter 13: Section Creation and Analysis
Chapter 13: Section Creation and Analysis
Technical requirements
Creating sample lines along alignments
Creating Section Views to display modeled objects
Creating intelligent section sheets for plan production
Summary
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Chapter 14: Automating Sheet Creation
Chapter 14: Automating Sheet Creation
Technical requirements
Automating Plan Sheet creation
Automating Plan and Profile Sheet creation
Automating Cross Section Sheet Creation
Summary
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Index
Index
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Setting up the Design Environment

Now that we have begun to familiarize ourselves, and get a bit more comfortable, with the overall layout of Civil 3D, we can start to look at how to set ourselves up for successful design implementation moving forward. A critical step to any BIM design is establishing a foundation to build upon.

With that said, in this chapter, we will review how work begins within Civil 3D; we will look at how to create efficient practices from the start with file templates and settings that carry through as our drawings get more advanced and we generate more files along the way. We will also gain a bit more insight into the dynamic nature of Civil 3D and how so many of the functions within it are linked, leading to a dramatic reduction in rework and a large increase in file intelligence.

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  • Exploring the Toolspace within Civil 3D
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