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AutoCAD Civil 3D: Site Design

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Overview

Learn to use AutoCAD Civil 3D for site design projects such as grading and storm design.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Understanding Site Design
  • What is site design?
  • Understanding layout and grading
  • Understanding storm design
2. Feature Lines
  • Understanding feature lines
  • Understanding feature lines and slites
  • Creating featuring lines
  • Editing feature line PIs
  • Editing feature line curves
  • Breaking and joining feature lines
  • Trimming and extending feature lines
  • Using stepped offset
  • Adding and removing elevation points
  • Raising and lowering feature lines
  • Editing individual feature line elevations
  • Setting a slope along a feature line
  • Assigning surface elevations to a feature line
  • Working with Split Point Resolution
3. Grading Objects
  • Understanding grading objects
  • Working with grading groups
  • Creating grading objects
  • Modifying grading objects
  • Working with infills
  • Working with volumes
4. Practical Grading Example
  • Understanding phased grading
  • Building an overall grading scheme
  • Assigning grading scheme elevations
  • Tying the entrance drive to the road
  • Creating curbs
  • Daylighting
  • Creating a parking lot surface
  • Adding channels and berms
  • Editing the surface
  • Creating an FG surface
  • Labeling your grading design
5. Storm Design for Sites
  • Understanding storm design for sites
  • Determining inlet locations
  • Creating inlets
  • Adding pipes
  • Adding more structures
  • Labeling the storm system
  • Adding a profile
  • Grading the pond: Part 1
  • Grading the pond: Part 2
  • Finalizing the storm design
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Eric Chappell

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