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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

4.7 (17)
By: Stephen Walz, Tony Sabat

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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Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Civil 3D and Starting Your Next Project for Success
5
Part 2: Designing and Modeling with Civil 3D from Scratch
11
Part 3: Leveraging Design-Specific Tool Belts
16
Part 4: Advanced Capabilities with Civil 3D

Introduction to points

Points in Civil 3D can have many different applications, purposes, and nomenclature. They are often viewed as one of the most basic foundational components that can be used for the creation of models and design progression and for painting the story of our overall design.

For the purposes of this chapter, we’ll focus on the importing process of points generated from our surveyed data, and identify some beneficial applications where these imported points can be processed to generate geometry and models to be displayed in our Survey Model.dwg file.

Starting with the importing process, we’ll be able to access the import Points command by going up to the ribbon, selecting the Insert tab, and then selecting the Points from File tool, as shown in Figure 5.6:

Figure 5.6 – Import points from file

Once selected, we’ll be presented with the Import Points dialog box where we’ll go ahead and import the Survey...

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