View videos that demonstrate Autodesk Civil 3D functionality.
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Familiarize yourself with the user interface. |
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Import styles and settings from a template or drawing, and purge unused styles and settings. |
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Create reference copies of objects that you can import from one drawing into other drawings. |
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Find objects and settings that reference a style, and then replace one style with another. |
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Define the components that are available when you lay out a pressure network. |
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Save files to, and open files from, your BIM 360 projects. |
Import and Create Base Data
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Create a query to filter the contents of a survey database. |
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Use the results of a survey query to build a surface. |
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Modify imported survey data using import events. |
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Import COGO points from a database into a drawing. |
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Create sets of description keys to sort points as they are imported into a drawing. |
Model a Surface
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Create a TIN surface definition, and then import point data into the surface definition. |
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Create catchment objects to model drainage areas on a surface. |
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Create sets of standard formulas for creating graded slopes. |
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Add contour data to an existing surface definition. |
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Grade from a building footprint to a surface. |
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Create waterdrop paths to analyze surface water runoff. |
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Visualize two overlapping surfaces by using one surface as a hide boundary for the other. |
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Set feature line elevations to be relative to a reference surface and add the relative feature lines to a different surface as breaklines. |
Design Horizontal and Vertical Objects
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Create parcels from AutoCAD objects. |
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Display and label explicit and implied points of intersection on an alignment. |
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Draw an alignment using constraint-based alignment layout tools and create simple existing ground and layout profiles for the alignment. |
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Graphically modify alignment geometry. |
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Design a pipe network using an existing polyline, and then use the Pipe Network Layout Tools to add structures and pipes. |
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Work with the constraints that affect how alignment sub-entities maintain tangency to adjacent sub-entities. |
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Specify the properties and lay out the geometry of a railway alignment. |
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Create a pressure network from a water industry model that was created in AutoCAD Map 3D. |
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Lock a Profile to Alignment Geometry
Anchor layout profile geometry to alignment geometry. |
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Accurately model corridor curves and apply clean transitions at offset targets. |
Model a Corridor
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Create a corridor cross section that can be placed at intervals along an alignment, and then connected together to form a corridor model. |
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Create a sectional assembly of a corridor, and then create a corridor by applying the assembly along an alignment and profile. |
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Create a three-way intersection that maintains the crowns of both intersecting roads. |
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Explore some of the powerful tools in the Autodesk Civil 3D Section Editor. |
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Design a superelevated roadway that uses axis of rotation pivot points. |
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Create sample lines along the centerline alignment of a corridor model. |
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Calculate the amount by which rails are raised or lowered through a curve. |
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Use a single section to sample multiple baselines or corridors at the same time. |
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Design site components and produce surfaces, volumes, and sectional representations of the components by leveraging the Autodesk Civil 3D corridor modeling tools. |
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Clear bowties on fixed width and variable width corridors. |
Analyze Data
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Create a mass haul diagram that displays free haul and overhaul volumes for a project site. |
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Export catchments and a pipe network to the Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis application. |
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Calculate a site's cut and fill volumes and see the calculations change dynamically as you modify the surface. |
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Use the Drive command to visualize a model by traversing along a linear path. |
Annotate Objects
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Move and rotate an unanchored label, independent from its insertion point marker. |
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Add parcel segment labels, and then convert the labels to tags that correspond to the contents of a table. |
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Add text to an instance of a label. |
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Add a surface watershed legend table to a drawing. |
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Use a label set to label corridor points in section views. |
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Bind drafting elements to section views and move individual section views to a section view group. |