Autodesk Civil 3D training

AutoCAD Civil 3D Training for Engineers

This lesson series is for those wishing to learn how to leverage Civil 3D 2022 (and below) to its fullest. All aspects of the programme are covered. These lessons are taught past a practicing ceremonious engineer using existent-world projects and data.

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  • Widening and Offset Alignments

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2022 Training Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • User Interface
    • New drawing file format
    • 3D Graphics improvements
    • System Variable Monitor
    • XREF Improvements
  • Drawing and Editing
    • Offscreen object selection
    • Snapping and complex linetypes
    • PDF enhancements, converting SHX text back to text in the drawing
    • MTEXT conversion enhancements
  • Civil 3D Specific
    • Showtime profiles
    • Connected alignments
    • Continued alignment profiles
    • Multiple baselines
    • Corridor cleanup (bowties)
    • Department view groups
    • Section view drafting buffer
    • Plan and contour
    • Feature lines
    • Holding sets in labels
    • Gravity pipe networks
  • Summary and review

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2022 Training Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • User Interface
    • The Autodesk Desktop App
    • Receiving updates
    • License managing director enhancements
  • Drawing and Editing
    • Block enhancements
    • Dialogs and ToolTip enhancements
    • 2D Graphics enhancements
    • Eye marks
    • Centerline objects
    • Editing text
  • PDF Enhancements
    • Create lines, arcs, polylines and text from a PDF file.
    • Options
    • Review and cleanup
    • Importing a TOPO
  • Output Options
    • Share Pattern View
    • 3D Printing
  • Civil 3D
    • Information Shortcuts
    • Corridors - extracting solids
    • Characteristic lines
    • Corner cleanup
    • Styles
    • Pressure level networks
    • Reports
    • A new line tool
    • Parcel properties
    • Finding surface high and depression points
  • Summary and review

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2022 Training Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • User Interface
    • Start screen
    • Layout tab enhancements
    • New customization options
    • Lock User Interface tool
    • Ribbon galleries
    • Command finder
  • Drawing and Editing
    • Revision cloud enhancements
    • Dimensioning enhancements
    • MTEXT Frame
    • Geometric Snap
    • Graphics enhancements
    • Cursor badges (on/off)
    • XREF property overrides
  • PDF Enhancements
    • Separate PDF and DWF consign options
    • Some properties now separate from plot properties
    • Include hyperlinks
    • Create bookmarks
    • New PDF quality settings
  • Civil 3D
    • Data Shortcut Manager Enhancements
    • Crossing Pipe Labels
    • Flip section view direction
  • Summary and review

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2022 Preparation Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • General Enhancements
    • Template changes
    • Help
    • Export Civil 3D
    • Google Earth
  • Alignments and Profiles
    • AASHTO Update
    • Department sampling increments
    • Vert. bend through pass-through point
    • Lock/unlock parameters
    • Extend tangents/curves to end of profile
    • Anchoring a profile to alignment point
  • Corridors
    • 3D Area
    • Replacing an assembly
    • Assembly insertions
    • Sight altitude calcs
    • More...
  • Labels
    • Stagger labels
    • Reference objects for labels
  • Summary and review

AutoCAD Ceremonious 3D 2022 Grooming Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • General Enhancements
    • Templates
    • Layers
    • Commands and styles
  • Survey
    • Queries
    • Figures
  • Pressure Pipage Networks
    • Creating from objects
    • Editing in program view
    • Editing in profile view
    • Editing in 3D
    • Tables
    • Data shortcuts
    • Parts lists
    • Displaying crossings
  • Corridors
    • XREF changes
  • Summary and review

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Grooming Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Survey Query
    • Introduction
    • Building a Survey Query
    • Previewing the results
    • Review of Query commands
    • Using the Query with surfaces
  • New Features and Changes
    • New drawing format and performance improvements
    • New Railroad Alignment object
      • Introduction
      • Setting upwards design criteria
      • Creating and editing the alignment
      • Working with "cants"
      • Labels and cant views
      • Profiles and profile view
    • Assembly enhancements
    • Corridor enhancements
    • Volumes dashboard
  • Pressure Pipe Networks
    • Introduction and setup
    • Settings
    • Network creation tools
    • Profile view
    • Depth check
    • Blueprint Cheque
  • Summary and review

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Grooming Highlights

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Styles
    • Style Manager
    • Using styles from other drawings is now easier
    • Replacing an in-use mode
    • Finding an in-use fashion
    • Purging unused styles
    • Point characterization rotation options
    • New options for point label width
  • Surfaces
    • New "Level of Detail" feature for optimized zoom performance when your drawing has lots of contours or tin triangles.
    • Height Analysis using a datum
    • The new "Catchment" object
    • Storm and Sanitary assay
  • Alignments, Corridors & Sections
    • New Constraint functionality for more flexibility when working with an alignment
    • New alignment tangency check alerts you to tangency issues
    • New cross-section viewing options
    • The new "Department Slider" bar
    • The new "Station Tracker" tool
    • Changes to assemblies and subassemblies
    • Grip editing target surfaces
    • Section station choice
    • Sample line enhancements
    • Superelevation enhancements

Highlights from Civil 3D 2011 & 2010

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Full general Features
    • User interface enhancements
    • New functionality for "properties"
    • Ribbon enhancements (2011)
    • Grid enhancements (2011)
    • Data shortcuts (2011)
    • New Navigation bar (2011)
    • New study features (2011)
    • New label features
  • Survey / Points
    • Listing available points (2011)
    • Point group display order (2011)
    • Geodetic changed (2011)
    • The new "Import Survey Data Wizard"
    • Linework definition files
    • Importing from ASCII files
    • Importing points from other drawings
  • Surface Features
    • Improved operation, especially for large or complex surfaces
    • Importing point deject data (2011)
    • Working with signal could object (2011)
    • Merge and split up surfaces (2011)
    • Using a datum on a bounded volume (2011)
    • New prune boundary options
    • Contour improvements
    • New masking options for contour labels
  • Alignments and Profiles
    • New options for creating alignments from objects
    • Automatic curve widening (2011)
    • New masking options for alignments
    • Dynamic offset alignments
    • Dynamic widening alignments
    • The new "Intersection Object"
    • Hatching cut and fill up areas of a contour
    • New options for profile labels
  • Corridors & Sections
    • New "Visibility" command (2011)
    • New "Drive" command lets you lot take a drive along your corridor (2011)
    • Streamlined superelevations (2011)
    • User interface changes and enhancements
    • New options for selecting, isolating, and editing a region
    • Zooming in to a region
  • Parcels
    • The new "Preview Graphics" feature
    • New options for frontage, including commencement, width, and depth parameters
    • Changes to the SlideAngle/Slide Direction commands
  • Pipes and Hydrology
    • Split or merge a pipe network (2011)
    • Vertex elevations (2011)
    • Ceremonious 3D 2010 working together with Hydraflow Tempest Sewers Extension
    • New commands for more streamlined integration
    • Exporting a pipe network to Tempest Sewers
    • Caveats when exporting, things to scout for.
    • Exporting the pipe network back to Civil 3D from Storm Sewers.
    • Labeling and display options
  • Sections
    • Section sheets (2011)
    • New volume calculation methods (2011)
  • Labels
    • New formatting settings (2011)
    • Geodetic labeling (2011)

Lesson Highlights for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 Grooming

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Project Management and General Features
    • New wait-and-experience for the user interface
    • New functionality for the prospector
    • New features for Vault
    • Irresolute labels with the Properties Dialog
  • New Label and Drafting Features
    • At present label objects in an XREF
    • New ballast points for labels
    • The Parcel Segment label object
    • Vertical calibration for profiles
    • Loftier/low point labels in profiles
    • Leading zero in bearings
    • More...
  • Alignment, Profiles & Cross-Sections
    • Add best-fit lines & curves to an alignment
    • Add best-fit lines & curves to a contour
    • New options to label vertical components of an alignment
    • Layout alignments using "Criteria based design factors"
    • Design to minimum radius curves, speed limit requirements, maximum grades and more
    • Design to AASHTO standards
    • Using the Blueprint Criteria Editor
    • Create circular vertical curves by length equally well as radius
    • Create stacked profile views for start profiles
    • New cantankerous department wizard
    • User divers cantankerous-section widths (not the same as a sample line)
    • User defined cantankerous-section heights
  • Corridor & 3D Model Features
    • Using survey figures, characteristic lines, and fifty-fifty pipage networks equally targets for corridor design
    • Create dynamically linked grading feature lines
    • New predefined assemblies and sub-assemblies
    • New functionality for viewing corridor sections
    • New Mass Haul diagram
  • New Surface Features
    • New "Simplify Surface" tool
    • Removing surface points
    • Placing surface data in an external file
    • Weeding and Supplementing in breakline cosmos
    • Data prune purlieus type
    • Determine a catchment area to a point
    • New compaction and expansion factors
  • New Grading Features
    • Grading-to-grading cleanup
    • Editing or removing a fillet from a characteristic line
    • Creating a feature line from an alignment
    • New options for resolving "split points"
  • Pipe/Hydrology Features
    • Renumbering a series of pipes in a pipage network
    • Adding spanning labels to pipes in profile views
    • Cleaning up pipe connections
    • Hydraflow Extensions for Civil 3D
  • New Survey
    • TDS Survey link installation
    • Added support for U.Due south. Survey Foot
    • Translating an unabridged survey database
    • New mapcheck features

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  • Projection and tools
    • Project templates
    • Moving from Land Desktop to Civil 3D
    • The Info Center
    • Autodesk Vault Explorer
    • Inquiry tool
    • Drag-and-drop mode
    • Report director
    • Curve-Calculator
  • Points
    • Points equally contained objects
    • Indicate settings and styles
    • Edit points and point data properties
    • Importing and editing
    • Creating a point grouping
    • Points in a tabular array
    • Create points along alignment using contour elevations
    • Edit multiple point elevations
    • Point rotation
    • Transparent commands toolbar
    • Setting betoken elevations
  • Labels
    • Labels as independent objects
    • Labels linked to other objects
    • Editing label objects
    • Labeling AutoCAD objects (line, arc polyline)
    • Note labels
    • Expressions, special characters, and rounding options
    • Label mask
    • Label anchors and grips
  • Sites and Parcels
    • Overview
    • Creating a site
    • Creating a parcel
    • Parcel label styles
    • Subdividing parcels
    • Editing parcels
    • Creating a packet table
    • Parcel reports
    • Setting user defined parcels in package backdrop
    • Consign map cheque and inverse data
  • Surfaces
    • Surface settings and styles
    • Creating surfaces
    • Calculation points
    • Importing and exporting DEM data
    • Modifying and deleting points
    • Creating contours
    • Cheque for problem contours
    • Labeling contours
    • Creating a surface mask
    • Creating a surface assay
    • Extracting entities for a surface
    • Creating 3D polylines from contours
    • Working with Google Earth images
  • Alignments & Profiles
    • Alignment features
    • Creating alignments
    • Editing alignments
    • Converting lines and curves to alignment objects
    • The "Plan Production" tool
    • Creating a profile
    • Profile views
    • Creating sample lines and sections
    • Spirals
    • Vertical curve options
    • Editing labels using grips
    • Quick profiles
    • Group editing profiles
    • New profile Wizards
  • Corridors and Assemblies
    • The corridor concept
    • The corridor surface
    • The corridor purlieus
    • Creating an assembly
    • Creating a simple corridor
    • Editing a corridor
    • Creating a corridor surface
    • Cross-section creation
    • Quantity takeoffs
    • Grip edit a corridor region
    • Grip edit a section view
    • Edit subassemblies in department view
  • Grading
    • Grading enhancements
    • Grading groups and sites
    • One vs. many grading groups
    • Grading methods
    • Cutting and fill options
    • Feature lines
    • Using the grading editor
    • Editing feature lines
    • Volumes
    • Balancing cut and fill
  • Pipes
    • Settings for pipes
    • Creating a pipage network
    • Creating and editing the profile view
    • Adding labels
    • The Parts Architect
    • Interference checks
    • Using polyline and arc to create a network
    • Creating a table for structures and pipes
    • Labeling a bridge of continued pipes
  • Survey Enhancements
    • The Survey Toolbox
    • Creating a new survey
    • Survey database and properties
    • Creating a new network
    • Traverse & adjustments (including to the lowest degree squares)
    • Importing the network into a drawing
    • Creating points from survey data
    • Updating the drawing survey objects
  • Import/Consign (Including LandXML)
    • LandXML overview
    • LandXML limitations
    • Importing data from Land Desktop
    • Exporting data to Land Desktop
    • Importing and exporting DEM data

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