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- Page 1 A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Rick Ellis A Cadapult Software Solutions Publication...
- Page 2 The datasets included in this book are for training purposes only. AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD® are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
- Page 3 About the Author Rick Ellis has worked with and taught AutoCAD Civil 3D, along with Map 3D and other Autodesk products since the mid-90s. He is the Author of several critically acclaimed books on AutoCAD Civil 3D, Map 3D and Land Desktop.
- Page 4 A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Introduction Congratulations on choosing this course to help you learn how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. The term “practical” is used in the title because this course focuses on what you need to effectively use AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, and does not complicate your learning experience with unnecessary details of every feature in the product.
- Page 5 Prerequisites Before starting this course, you should have a basic working knowledge of AutoCAD®. A deep understanding of AutoCAD is not required, but you should be able to: • Pan and Zoom in the AutoCAD drawing screen. • Describe what layers are in AutoCAD, and change the current layer. •...
- Page 6 Exercises The exercises in this course have been designed to represent common tasks that are performed by civil engineers, surveyors, designers and drafters. The data included in the exercises are typical drawings, point files and other data used by professionals like you. You work with drawings, point files, aerial photos, GIS data, and much more;...
- Page 7 Table of Contents Chapter 1 AutoCAD Civil 3D User Interface ....................1 1.1 Lesson: Navigating the AutoCAD Civil 3D User Interface ..............2 1.1.1 Navigating the AutoCAD Civil 3D Interface ..............10 1.2 Lesson: Project Overview ........................13 Chapter 2 Data Collection and Base Map Preparation ............... 17 2.1 Lesson: Importing GIS Data ........................
- Page 8 Chapter 4 Creating a Survey Plan ......................83 4.1 Lesson: Importing Survey Points ......................84 4.1.1 Creating a Description Key Set ..................87 4.1.2 Importing Points from an ASCII File.................. 89 4.1.3 Confirming the Description Keys Worked Properly ............91 4.2 Lesson: Working with Point Groups ....................
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Page 9: Table Of Contents
5.1.2 Creating the Survey Surface ..................162 5.1.3 Adding Point Group Data to a Surface ................162 5.1.4 Creating Breaklines by Point Number ................163 5.1.5 Creating Breaklines by Point Selection ................164 5.1.6 Adding Breaklines to the Surface ................... 166 5.1.7 Viewing the Surface ...................... - Page 10 6.4 Lesson: Laying Out Parcels ....................... 223 6.4.1 Merging Parcels ......................226 6.4.2 Creating Parcels Manually ....................226 6.4.3 Creating Parcels with the Slide Line Tool ............... 228 6.4.4 Creating Parcels with the Slide Line Tool Automatically ..........230 6.4.5 Editing Parcels ........................
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Page 11: Creating A Surface
8.2.5 Exporting Corridor Points ....................303 8.3 Lesson: Working with Sections ......................305 8.3.1 Creating Sample Lines ....................308 8.3.2 Creating a Section Group Plot Style ................310 8.3.3 Creating Section Views ....................313 8.3.4 Creating Section Sheets ....................319 8.3.5 Volume Calculations ....................... - Page 12 Chapter 11 Data Shortcuts ........................379 11.1 Lesson: Sharing Project Data with Data Shortcuts ................380 11.1.1 Setting the Working Folder ..................... 385 11.1.2 Creating a Data Shortcut Project ..................386 11.1.3 Creating Data Shortcuts ....................387 11.1.4 Creating Data Shortcut References ................388...
- Page 13 5 - Building a Survey Quality Surface In this chapter you will use points and breaklines from the survey data to create a survey quality existing ground surface. You will learn ways to leverage the use of Point Groups to efficiently build and edit a Surface by editing the source data and also editing the Surface itself.
- Page 14 Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface Lesson: Building Surfaces from Survey Data Introduction Any time you build a surface the most important step is to understand what data you have available to work with. In this chapter you will work with points that will be managed with a Point Group and breaklines that you will create based on some of those same survey points.
- Page 15 Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface Types of Surface Data Surfaces can be built from a combination of many different types of data: • Boundaries • Breaklines • Contours • DEM files (Digital Elevation Models) • Drawing Objects • Point Files •...
- Page 16 Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface the surface data is inside the boundary and the only triangle touching it are long and inaccurate, then you may be left with short triangles along the edge that are still at the wrong slope. Breaklines Breaklines define grade breaks in a surface.
- Page 17 Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface Contours Contour data in the form of 2D polylines can be added to your surface. Weeding factors can help you skip over extra, unnecessary vertices when the data is added to the surface. While supplementing factors will allow you to sample extra points off long contours with minimal vertices. Since by its nature, contour data tends to create flat triangles that do not accurately reflect the surface, there are several options to minimize those flat triangles.
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Page 18: Using The Object Viewer
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface Point Files ASCII point files can be imported directly into the surface. This is a good option for large datasets or points that you do not need in the drawing for anything other than building a surface. Point Groups Point groups can be used to add a specific selection set of points to a surface. -
Page 19: Creating A Point Group
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface 5.1.1 Creating a Point Group to Be Used As Surface Data Before you create the surface you need to create a Point Group that will be used to select only the points that you want to use for the surface data. Points that should not be included in the surface should not be included in the point group. -
Page 20: Creating The Survey Surface
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface 5.1.2 Creating the Survey Surface 1. On the Prospector tab of the Toolspace, right-click on Surfaces and select ⇒ Create Surface. 2. Confirm that TIN surface is selected as Type. 3. Enter Survey for the Name. 4. -
Page 21: Creating Breaklines By Point Number
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface 5.1.4 Creating Breaklines by Point Number Civil 3D does not use special commands for drawing and defining breaklines the way that Land Desktop and many other programs do. Instead, you draw the breaklines with standard AutoCAD commands, like the 3D Polyline command, and then define these objects as breaklines after they have been drawn. -
Page 22: Creating Breaklines By Point Selection
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface The new breaklines will look like the graphic below. 5.1.5 Creating Breaklines by Point Selection 1. On the Prospector tab of the Toolspace, select the Point Group Breakline. This will display a list of all the points used in the surface in the preview window at the bottom of the Prospector, if the Prospector is docked. - Page 23 Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface 10. Starting at point 1116, define a second breakline along the bottom of the ditch using the 'PO transparent command and points 1116, 1117, 1118, 1119, and 1120. 11. [Enter] to end the Point Object prompt. 12.
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Page 24: Adding Breaklines To The Surface
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface 5.1.6 Adding Breaklines to the Surface 1. Select Ribbon: Home ⇒ Layers ⇒ Isolate. 2. Pick one of the breaklines and one of the contours from the surface to isolate the Breaklines- Survey and C-TOPO-Survey layers. 3. -
Page 25: Viewing The Surface
Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface 5.1.7 Viewing the Surface The Object Viewer is a separate window that will allow you to view a selected object or objects in 3D and rotate them in real-time. 1. Pick one of the contours to highlight the entire surface. 2.