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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011
Tutorials
April 2010

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Contents
Chapter 1 Welcome to the AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Getting More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Setting Up the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Saving Your Tutorial Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2 Getting Started Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tutorial: Understanding the AutoCAD Civil 3D User Interface . . . . . . 5
Exercise 1: Finding Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Exercise 2: Understanding the Toolspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Exercise 3: Using the Panorama Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tutorial: Using Basic Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Tutorial: Viewing AutoCAD Civil 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Exercise 1: Setting Up the Drawing Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Exercise 2: Changing the Display of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Exercise 3: Viewing a Drawing in Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3 Points Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tutorial: Creating Point Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Exercise 1: Creating Description Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Exercise 2: Creating Point Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Exercise 3: Importing Points from a Database . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Tutorial: Displaying and Editing Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Exercise 1: Displaying an Externally Referenced Drawing . . . . . 31
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Exercise 2: Changing the Style of a Point Group . . . . . . . . . . 32
Exercise 3: Changing Point Group Display Order . . . . . . . . . 33
Exercise 4: Removing an Externally Referenced Drawing . . . . . 35
Exercise 5: Editing Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tutorial: Adding User-Defined Properties to Points . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Exercise 1: Creating User-Defined Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style That Displays a User-Defined
Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Exercise 3: Assigning User-Defined Properties to Points . . . . . . 41
Exercise 4: Importing Points with User-Defined Properties . . . . 42
Exercise 5: Querying User-Defined Property Information . . . . . 44
Chapter 4 Point Cloud Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Tutorial: Working with Point Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Exercise 1: Importing Point Cloud Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Exercise 2: Working with Point Cloud Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Exercise 3: Adding Point Cloud Data to a Surface . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 5 Surfaces Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Tutorial: Creating and Adding Data to a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Exercise 1: Creating a TIN Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Exercise 2: Adding Point Data to a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Exercise 3: Adding Breaklines to a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Exercise 4: Adding an Outer Boundary to a Surface . . . . . . . . 70
Tutorial: Working with Large Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Exercise 1: Limiting Imported Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Exercise 2: Simplifying a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Tutorial: Changing the Surface Style and Display . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Exercise 1: Editing the Surface Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Exercise 2: Using a Different Style for a Surface . . . . . . . . . . 83
Exercise 3: Labeling a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Tutorial: Editing Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Exercise 1: Swapping TIN Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Exercise 2: Deleting TIN Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Exercise 3: Adding a Hide Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Exercise 4: Smoothing a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Tutorial: Creating a Watershed and Water Drop Analysis . . . . . . . . 96
Exercise 1: Configuring a Style for Watershed Display . . . . . . . 97
Exercise 2: Generating a Watershed Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Exercise 3: Creating a Watershed Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Exercise 4: Extracting Objects from a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Exercise 5: Analyzing Surface Water Runoff . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Tutorial: Generating Surface Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Exercise 1: Creating the Base and Comparison Surfaces . . . . . 106
Exercise 2: Creating a TIN Volume Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Exercise 3: Creating a Composite Volume Calculation . . . . . . 110
Tutorial: Visualizing Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Exercise 1: Moving Multi-View Blocks to a Surface . . . . . . . . 111
Exercise 2: Rendering a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Tutorial: Obtaining an Aerial Image and Draping It on a Surface . . . . 116
Exercise 1: Publishing Surface Data to Google Earth . . . . . . . 117
Exercise 2: Importing a Google Earth Image . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Exercise 3: Draping an Image on a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Chapter 6 Survey Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Tutorial: Survey Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Exercise 1: Creating a Survey Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Exercise 2: Setting the Equipment and Figure Prefix
Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Exercise 3: Adjusting and Verifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Exercise 4: Setting Survey Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Exercise 5: Setting Up a Linework Code Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Tutorial: Importing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Exercise 1: Importing Field-Coded Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . 136
Exercise 2: Updating Imported Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Tutorial: Viewing and Editing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Exercise 1: Viewing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Exercise 2: Editing a Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Tutorial: Analyzing and Reducing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Exercise 1: Querying Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Exercise 2: Performing Traverse Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Exercise 3: Performing Least Squares Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Exercise 4: Translating a Survey Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Tutorial: Manually Creating Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Exercise 1: Creating Survey Data Using the Toolspace Survey
Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Exercise 2: Creating Survey Data Using the Traverse Editor . . . . 160
Exercise 3: Creating Survey Data Using the Survey Command
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Exercise 4: Calculating an Azimuth in The Astronomic Direction
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Exercise 5: Creating Figures from Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Tutorial: Outputting Survey Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Exercise 1: Viewing Inverse and Mapcheck Information on a
Survey Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Exercise 2: Performing a Mapcheck Analysis with Parcel
Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Exercise 3: Performing a Mapcheck Analysis by Manually
Entering Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Exercise 4: Working with Mapcheck Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Exercise 5: Creating Surface Breaklines from Figures . . . . . . . 181
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Chapter 7 Project Management Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Tutorial: Using Data Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Exercise 1: Setting Up a Data Shortcut Folder . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Exercise 2: Creating Data Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Exercise 3: Referencing Data Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Tutorial: Vault Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Exercise 1: Logging In to Autodesk Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Exercise 2: Creating User Accounts and Groups . . . . . . . . . . 197
Exercise 3: Creating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Tutorial: Creating, Referencing, and Modifying Project Object
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Exercise 1: Adding a Drawing to the Project . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Exercise 2: Creating a Reference to a Project Object . . . . . . . 202
Exercise 3: Checking Out and Modifying a Project Object . . . . 204
Exercise 4: Checking In a Project Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Exercise 5: Updating a Project Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Tutorial: Creating and Modifying Project Point Data . . . . . . . . . . 207
Exercise 1: Adding Points to a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Exercise 2: Checking Out and Modifying Project Points . . . . . 209
Exercise 3: Checking In Project Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Tutorial: Exporting and Importing Vault Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Exercise 1: Exporting a Vault Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Exercise 2: Importing a Data Shortcut Project into Vault . . . . . 212
Chapter 8 Alignments Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Tutorial: Creating Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Exercise 1: Creating an Alignment with the Alignment Layout
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Exercise 2: Adding Free Curves and Spirals to an
Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Exercise 3: Adding Floating Curves to an Alignment . . . . . . . 219
Tutorial: Editing Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Exercise 1: Editing the Layout Parameter Values of an
Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Exercise 2: Grip Editing an Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Exercise 3: Applying a Mask to an Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Tutorial: Working with Offset Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Exercise 1: Creating Offset Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Exercise 2: Editing an Offset Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Exercise 3: Adding a Widening to an Offset Alignment . . . . . . 239
Exercise 4: Editing an Offset Widening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Tutorial: Designing an Alignment that Refers to Local Standards . . . 248
Exercise 1: Drawing an Alignment that Refers to Design
Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
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Exercise 2: Viewing and Correcting Alignment Design Criteria
Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Exercise 3: Working with Design Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Exercise 4: Modifying a Design Criteria File . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Tutorial: Applying Superelevation to an Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Exercise 1: Calculating Superelevation for an Alignment . . . . . 262
Exercise 2: Calculating Superelevation for an Individual
Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Exercise 3: Creating a Superelevation View . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Exercise 4: Adding and Modifying Superelevation Stations . . . . 269
Exercise 5: Editing Superelevation Parameters Graphically . . . . 272
Chapter 9 Profiles Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Tutorial: Designing Simple Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Tutorial: Using Surface Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Exercise 1: Creating and Displaying Surface Profiles with
Offsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Exercise 2: Changing the Profile Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Exercise 3: Reviewing Surface Profile Characteristics . . . . . . . 285
Tutorial: Using Layout Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Exercise 1: Creating a Layout Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Exercise 2: Editing a Layout Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Exercise 3: Copying a Profile and Offsetting it Vertically . . . . . 294
Tutorial: Designing a Profile that Refers to Local Standards . . . . . . 297
Exercise 1: Specifying Profile Design Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Exercise 2: Drawing a Profile that Refers to Design Criteria . . . . 299
Exercise 3: Viewing and Correcting Profile Design Criteria
Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Tutorial: Displaying and Modifying Profile Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Exercise 1: Editing the Profile View Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Exercise 2: Adding Hatch Patterns Between Profiles . . . . . . . 310
Exercise 3: Projecting Objects onto a Profile View . . . . . . . . 314
Exercise 4: Splitting a Profile View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Exercise 5: Creating Multiple Profile Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Exercise 6: Creating Stacked Profile Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Tutorial: Working with Data Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Exercise 1: Adding Data Bands to a Profile View . . . . . . . . . 331
Exercise 2: Moving Labels in a Data Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Exercise 3: Modifying a Data Band Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Chapter 10 Parcels Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Tutorial: Creating Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Exercise 1: Creating Parcels from AutoCAD Objects . . . . . . . 341
Exercise 2: Subdividing a Parcel with a Free-Form Segment . . . . 345
Exercise 3: Subdividing a Parcel with a Slide Line . . . . . . . . . 348
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Exercise 4: Subdividing a Parcel with a Swing Line . . . . . . . . 355
Exercise 5: Working with Alignments and Parcels . . . . . . . . 359
Tutorial: Editing Parcel Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Exercise 1: Sliding a Parcel Lot Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Exercise 2: Swinging One End of a Parcel Lot Line . . . . . . . . 368
Exercise 3: Editing Parcel Lot Line Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Tutorial: Displaying and Analyzing Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Exercise 1: Changing Parcel Style Display Order . . . . . . . . . 382
Exercise 2: Exporting Parcel Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Chapter 11 Grading Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Tutorial: Setting up Grading Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Exercise 1: Reviewing Grading Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Exercise 2: Creating Grading Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Exercise 3: Creating Grading Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Tutorial: Creating Gradings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Exercise 1: Creating Feature Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Exercise 2: Assigning Feature Line Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Exercise 3: Creating a Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Tutorial: Editing Gradings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Exercise 1: Editing the Grading Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Exercise 2: Balancing Cut and Fill Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Exercise 3: Editing the Grading Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Tutorial: Grading from a Complex Building Footprint . . . . . . . . . 404
Exercise 1: Simplifying a Building Footprint . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Exercise 2: Grading from a Building Footprint to a Surface . . . . 408
Exercise 3: Filling Holes in a Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Tutorial: Using Feature Lines to Modify a Grading . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Exercise 1: Smoothing Feature Line Arcs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Exercise 2: Adjusting Grading Triangulation with a Feature
Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Exercise 3: Working with Crossing Feature Lines . . . . . . . . . 415
Chapter 12 Corridor Assembly Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Tutorial: Working with Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Exercise 1: Creating an Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Exercise 2: Modifying the Subassembly Name Template . . . . . 427
Exercise 3: Managing Assemblies and Subassemblies . . . . . . . 430
Tutorial: Creating an Assembly with Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Exercise 1: Examining the Existing Corridor in Section . . . . . . 433
Exercise 2: Adding Conditional Subassemblies to a Corridor
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Exercise 3: Adjusting Conditional Subassembly Properties . . . . 443
Exercise 4: Rebuilding the Corridor and Examining the
Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
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Tutorial: Saving and Sharing Corridor Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Exercise 1: Saving Assemblies to a Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . 449
Exercise 2: Copying Assemblies to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . 451
Exercise 3: Publishing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Exercise 4: Installing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Exercise 5: Moving Assemblies from a Tool Catalog to a Tool
Palette or Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Chapter 13 Corridors Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Tutorial: Creating a Basic Corridor Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Tutorial: Creating a Corridor with a Transition Lane . . . . . . . . . . 463
Exercise 1: Creating an Assembly with a Transition Lane . . . . . 464
Exercise 2: Creating a Corridor with a Transition Lane . . . . . . 467
Tutorial: Creating a Divided Highway Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Exercise 1: Creating a Divided Highway Assembly . . . . . . . . 472
Exercise 2: Creating a Divided Highway Corridor . . . . . . . . . 476
Tutorial: Viewing and Editing Corridor Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Exercise 1: Viewing Corridor Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Exercise 2: Editing Corridor Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Tutorial: Viewing and Rendering a Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Exercise 1: Creating Corridor Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Exercise 2: Creating Corridor Surface Boundaries . . . . . . . . . 486
Exercise 3: Visualizing a Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Chapter 14 Intersection and Roundabout Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Tutorial: Creating Intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Exercise 1: Creating a Peer Road Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Exercise 2: Creating a Primary Road Intersection with Turn
Lanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Exercise 3: Creating an Intersection with Existing
Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Tutorial: Editing Intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Exercise 1: Editing the Horizontal Geometry of an
Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Exercise 2: Editing the Vertical Geometry of an
Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Exercise 3: Creating and Editing a Corridor in the Intersection
Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Tutorial: Working with Roundabouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Exercise 1: Creating a Roundabout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Exercise 2: Adding an Approach Road to a Roundabout . . . . . 546
Exercise 3: Adding a Turn Slip Lane to a Roundabout . . . . . . 550
Exercise 4: Editing Roundabout Components . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Exercise 5: Working with Roundabout Design Standards and
Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
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Chapter 15 Sections Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Tutorial: Creating Section Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Exercise 1: Creating Sample Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
Exercise 2: Creating Section Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
Tutorial: Adding Data to a Section View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
Exercise 1: Projecting an Object onto a Section View . . . . . . . 577
Exercise 2: Adding a Section View Grade Label . . . . . . . . . . 586
Exercise 3: Adding a Data Band to a Section View . . . . . . . . 587
Chapter 16 Material Calculation Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Tutorial: Calculating Earthwork Volumes from Corridor Models . . . . 589
Exercise 1: Reviewing Quantity Takeoff Criteria and Report
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590
Exercise 2: Creating a Material List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Exercise 3: Generating a Volume Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Tutorial: Working with Mass Haul Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Exercise 1: Creating a Mass Haul Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Exercise 2: Balancing Mass Haul Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Exercise 3: Editing the Mass Haul Line Style . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Tutorial: Calculating and Reporting Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Exercise 1: Loading and Navigating a Pay Item List . . . . . . . . 604
Exercise 2: Assigning Pay Item Codes to AutoCAD Objects . . . . 606
Exercise 3: Assigning Pay Item Codes to Pipe Network
Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
Exercise 4: Assigning Pay Item Codes to Corridors . . . . . . . . 616
Exercise 5: Working with Quantity Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Exercise 6: Working with Pay Item Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Exercise 7: Creating a Pay Item List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Chapter 17 Pipe Network Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Tutorial: Creating a Pipe Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Exercise 1: Creating a Pipe Network from a Polyline . . . . . . . 630
Exercise 2: Creating a Pipe Network by Layout . . . . . . . . . . 635
Exercise 3: Adding Parts to a Pipe Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Tutorial: Changing Pipe Network Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Exercise 1: Adding Parts to the Parts List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Exercise 2: Changing the Surface, Alignment, and Rules
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Exercise 3: Adding a Branch to a Pipe Network . . . . . . . . . . 642
Tutorial: Viewing and Editing Pipe Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Exercise 1: Drawing Pipe Network Parts in a Profile View . . . . . 645
Exercise 2: Adding Labels to Pipe Network Parts . . . . . . . . . 646
Exercise 3: Editing Pipe Network Parts in a Profile View . . . . . 649
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Exercise 4: Overriding the Style of a Pipe Network Part in a
Profile View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Exercise 5: Viewing Pipe Network Parts in a Section View . . . . 652
Exercise 6: Creating Pipe and Structure Tables . . . . . . . . . . 653
Chapter 18 Part Builder Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Tutorial: Creating a Cylindrical Manhole Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Exercise 1: Defining the New Part in the Structure Catalog . . . . 657
Exercise 2: Defining the Manhole Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Exercise 3: Matching Offsets and Dimensions to
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Exercise 4: Verifying the New Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Tutorial: Creating a Drop Inlet Manhole Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 676
Exercise 1: Defining the New Part in the Structure Catalog . . . . 676
Exercise 2: Defining the Manhole Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 678
Exercise 3: Creating Profiles and Establishing Parameters . . . . 688
Tutorial: Creating a Vault Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Exercise 1: Defining the New Part in the Structure Catalog . . . . 706
Exercise 2: Defining the Vault Top Section Geometry . . . . . . 707
Exercise 3: Defining the Vault Box Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 717
Exercise 4: Finalizing the Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728
Exercise 5: Using the New Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735
Chapter 19 Labels and Tables Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739
Tutorial: Preparing to Annotate a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740
Exercise 1: Attaching Drawings as Xrefs for Annotation . . . . . 740
Exercise 2: Exploring the Annotation Tools on the Ribbon . . . . 743
Tutorial: Adding and Editing Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744
Exercise 1: Adding Labels in Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
Exercise 2: Manually Labeling an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752
Exercise 3: Selecting and Moving Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755
Exercise 4: Working with Label Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
Tutorial: Changing the Content of a Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
Exercise 1: Overriding Label Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
Exercise 2: Changing Label Content in the Drawing
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
Tutorial: Working with Tables and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
Exercise 1: Creating a Parcel Area Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
Exercise 2: Converting Labels to Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770
Exercise 3: Renumbering Table Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774
Tutorial: Working with Label Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
Exercise 1: Creating a Label Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
Exercise 2: Using a Child Label Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780
Exercise 3: Controlling Label Appearance Using Layers . . . . . . 783
Exercise 4: Changing the Dragged State of a Label . . . . . . . . 789
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Exercise 5: Changing a Label Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
Exercise 6: Creating a Label Style that Refers to Another
Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797
Tutorial: Using Expressions in Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
Exercise 1: Creating an Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802
Exercise 2: Inserting an Expression Into a Label Style . . . . . . . 803
Chapter 20 Plan Production Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805
Tutorial: Preparing a Drawing for Plan and Profile Sheet Layout . . . . 805
Exercise 1: Configuring Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Exercise 2: Creating View Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807
Tutorial: Generating Sheets for Plotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Exercise 1: Creating Plan and Profile Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Exercise 2: Creating Section Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
Tutorial Folder Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
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Welcome to the AutoCAD
Civil 3D Tutorials
The following tutorial sets are included with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011:
■Getting Started Tutorials (page 5). Learn about the application workspace and some
important design tools and tasks.
■Points Tutorials (page 25). Learn how to work with coordinate geometry (COGO) points,
which are the basis for modeling land surfaces.
■Point Cloud Tutorials (page 47). Learn how to work with point clouds, which are dense
collections of point data that are obtained from LiDAR scanning
■Surfaces Tutorials (page 59). Learn the basics about creating and working with land surfaces.
■Survey Tutorials (page 129). Learn the basics about importing, creating, managing, and
analyzing survey data.
■Project Management Tutorials (page 183). Learn how to use the AutoCAD Civil 3D project
management features, including data shortcuts and Autodesk Vault.
■Alignments Tutorials (page 213). Learn about alignments, which are the basis for modeling
roads.
■Profiles Tutorials (page 275). Learn the basics about viewing and designing the elevation
profile of land surfaces along an alignment.
■Parcels Tutorials (page 341). Learn the basics about creating and editing parcels as well as
working with the display of parcels.
■Grading Tutorials (page 387). Learn how to design the finished grade for land surfaces such
as housing subdivisions and retail sites.
■Corridor Assembly Tutorials (page 421). Learn how to build and manage assemblies, which
are cross sections that are placed incrementally along an alignment.
■Corridors Tutorials (page 459). Learn how to create simple and complex corridor designs.
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■Intersection and Roundabout Tutorials (page 495). Learn how to create complex
intersections that dynamically react to changes in the model.
■Sections Tutorials (page 569). Learn how to create cross sections of your corridor design,
calculate cut and fill earthwork quantities, and create mass-haul diagrams.
■Material Calculation Tutorials (page 589). Learn how to calculate material quantities and
generate reports, including pay item reports, earthworks reports, and mass haul diagrams.
■Pipe Network Tutorials (page 629). Learn how to create a pipe network using the specialized
layout tools.
■Part Builder Tutorials (page 657). Learn how to design and model parts that are used in
pipe networks.
■Labels and Tables Tutorials (page 739). Learn how to annotate AutoCAD Civil 3D objects
using labels and tables.
■Plan Production Tutorials (page 805). Learn how to prepare your design drawings for
plotting or publishing.
Each tutorial set contains exercises that are designed to explore the various features of
AutoCAD Civil 3D.
The tutorial exercises are organized in a logical sequence, based on how you typically work
with the different types of features. However, you may complete the exercises in any order
you choose. After you begin an exercise, you should complete the steps in the order
presented. The first steps provide you with the information you need for the later steps in
that exercise.
NOTE All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorial drawings folder
(page 819) and all source data files are available in the tutorial folder (page 820). If you want
to save your changes to the tutorial drawings as you work, save them to the My Civil
Tutorial Data folder (page 819) so that you do not overwrite the original tutorial drawings.
Getting More Information
The step-by-step procedures in these tutorials provide instructions for using
AutoCAD Civil 3D to complete tasks using the drawings provided.
The tutorials do not explore all of the features and commands of AutoCAD
Civil 3D, nor do the tutorials identify all of the options associated with each
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feature and command. To obtain more detailed information about AutoCAD
Civil 3D features and commands, refer to the following documentation:
■AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Help
■AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Best Practices Guide
Setting Up the Workspace
Before you start the tutorials, you must set the appropriate workspace.
Workspaces are sets of commands that are grouped and organized so that you
can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment. When you choose
a workspace, only the ribbon tabs, toolbars, and secondary windows specified
in that workspace are shown in the interface. To access other commands not
shown in the ribbon, enter their command names on the command line.
The tutorials use the Civil 3D workspace. If you use a different workspace,
some of the commands that are described may not be visible. To avoid
confusion, it is recommended that you switch to the Civil 3D workspace before
you begin the tutorials.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Workspaces.
To set up the workspace
1On the command line, enter WORKSPACE.
2At the Workspace Option prompt, enter C.
3When prompted to enter the name of the workspace, enter Civil 3D.
Saving Your Tutorial Drawings
If you want to save your changes to the tutorial drawings as you work, you
must create a folder in which to save drawing and data files before beginning
the tutorial exercises.
Before you begin the tutorials:
1Open Windows Explorer.
2Navigate to the Autodesk Documents folder (page 819).
3Click File menu ➤New ➤Folder.
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4Change the name of the new folder to My Civil Tutorial Data.
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Getting Started Tutorials
These tutorials will get you started with the application workspace and some important design
tools and tasks.
In AutoCAD Civil 3D, design data is organized as object collections in the Toolspace window.
In Toolspace, the Prospector tab displays the hierarchy of design objects, such as points,
surfaces, and alignments. The Settings tab displays a hierarchy of object styles, including
styles for labels and tables.
The Panorama window displays data in a horizontally oriented grid, which makes it easier to
see many columns at once. Each type of data displayed in Panorama uses a separate tab,
known as a vista, that is specific to that data type.
There are many ways to view AutoCAD Civil 3D objects, including Visual Styles, Named
Views, and the Object Viewer.
NOTE All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorial drawings folder (page
819). If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Civil
Tutorial Data folder (page 819) so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic The Civil 3D User Interface.
Tutorial: Understanding the AutoCAD Civil 3D User
Interface
In this tutorial, you will examine some of the major components of the AutoCAD
Civil 3D user interface.
The AutoCAD Civil 3D user interface enhances the standard AutoCAD
environment with additional tools for creating and managing civil design
information.
Standard AutoCAD features, such as the command line and ribbon, work the
same way in AutoCAD Civil 3D as they do in AutoCAD.
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For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic The Civil 3D User
Interface.
Exercise 1: Finding Tools
In this exercise, you will learn how to locate the tools that are available for a
given task.
The drawing you use contains AutoCAD Civil 3D objects to explore. The
objects in this drawing are the site elements that you will create in the
following tutorials.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic The Civil 3D User
Interface.
Explore the basic user interface elements
1Open drawing Intro-1.dwg, which is available in the tutorial drawings folder
(page 819).
This drawing contains an existing ground surface, two corridors that
intersect, a storm sewer pipe network, and property parcels.
2Examine the elements at the top of the AutoCAD Civil 3D window. Click
the buttons as described in the following paragraphs to examine the tools
that are contained in each element.
■Application Menu—Provides access to file-related commands,
such as open, print, export, and publish.
■Quick Access Toolbar—Contains
frequently used commands. Click and then More Commands to
add an unlimited number of tools to the Quick Access toolbar.
NOTE You also can right-click a tool on the ribbon to send it to the Quick
Access toolbar.
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InfoCenter—Enables you to search for information through key words,
display the Communication Center panel for product updates and
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announcements, display the Favorites panel to access saved topics,
and access Help.
■Ribbon—Provides a single, compact location for commands that are
relevant to the current task. The ribbon eliminates the need to display
multiple toolbars, which reduces clutter in the application and
maximizes the drawing space. In the top row, click to successively
minimize the ribbon display.
Explore the ribbon
1On the Home tab, on the Create Design panel, click the bar at the bottom
of the panel.
The panel expands to display additional tools. If is displayed in the
bottom bar of a ribbon panel, then additional tools are available.
2Click the Modify and Analyze tabs.
Each of these tabs contains tools that are relevant to a category of tasks.
3Click the Home tab.
The Home tab contains commands that are commonly used to create
AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D objects.
4In the drawing, click one of the contour lines to select the surface.
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The TIN Surface tab is displayed on the ribbon. This is known as a
contextual tab, and it contains all the tools related to surfaces. Depending
on the type of object that is selected, different tools are displayed on the
contextual tab. The tools on all AutoCAD Civil 3D contextual tabs are
arranged in a similar series of panels:
■Labels and Tables
■General Tools
■Modify
■Analyze
■Object Tools
■Launch Pad
5Press Esc.
6Select the corridor.
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