These tutorials will get you started with adjusting grading settings, creating gradings, and editing gradings to balance cut and fill volumes.
A grading object in AutoCAD Civil 3D, like an alignment or a surface, has its own properties and behaviors.
All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorials drawings folder . If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Tutorial Data folder so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding Grading Objects.
Topics in this section
- Tutorial: Setting up Grading Standards
This tutorial demonstrates how to adjust grading settings, criteria, and styles.
- Tutorial: Creating Gradings
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a feature line and how to grade from the feature line.
- Tutorial: Editing Gradings
This tutorial demonstrates common grading editing tasks, including elevation adjustment and grading criteria editing.
- Tutorial: Grading from a Complex Building Footprint
This tutorial demonstrates how to grade around a building footprint that has relatively complicated geometry and variations in elevation.
- Tutorial: Using Feature Lines to Modify a Grading
This tutorial demonstrates how to use feature lines to control grading around inside corners.