View videos that demonstrate AutoCAD 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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![]() 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. |
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![]() Export objects from a conceptual model into Civil 3D for detailed design and analysis. |
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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 an empty TIN surface definition. |
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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. |
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 a horizontal alignment using constraint-based alignment layout tools. |
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![]() Create simple existing ground and layout profiles for an 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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![]() Lay out the horizontal design of a pressure network. |
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![]() Refine the vertical design of a pressure network. |
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![]() Create a pressure network from a water industry model that was created in AutoCAD Map 3D. |
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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 AutoCAD 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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![]() 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. |
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![]() Move and rotate an unanchored label, independent from its insertion point marker. |
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![]() Add parcel segment lables, 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. |