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3 All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. DisclaimerTHIS PUBLICATION AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS MADE AVAILABLE BY Autodesk , INC. "AS IS." Autodesk , INC. DISCLAIMSALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY ORFITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING THESE MATERIALS. Published By: Autodesk , Mclnnis ParkwaySan Rafael, CA 94903, USAC ontentsChapter 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.

4 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 .. 31iiiExercise 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-DefinedProperty .. 39 Exercise 3: Assigning User-Defined Properties to Points .. 41 Exercise 4: Importing Points with User-Defined Properties.

5 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.

6 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 .. 109iv | ContentsExercise 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.

7 117 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 PrefixDatabases .. 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.

8 155 Exercise 1: Creating Survey Data Using the Toolspace SurveyTab .. 156 Exercise 2: Creating Survey Data Using the Traverse Editor .. 160 Exercise 3: Creating Survey Data Using the Survey CommandWindow .. 164 Exercise 4: Calculating an Azimuth in The Astronomic DirectionCalculator .. 167 Exercise 5: Creating Figures from Parcels .. 170 Tutorial: Outputting Survey Information .. 171 Exercise 1: Viewing Inverse and Mapcheck Information on aSurvey Figure .. 171 Exercise 2: Performing a Mapcheck Analysis with ParcelLabels .. 173 Exercise 3: Performing a Mapcheck Analysis by ManuallyEntering Data .. 176 Exercise 4: Working with Mapcheck Data .. 179 Exercise 5: Creating Surface Breaklines from Figures .. 181 Contents | vChapter 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.

9 188 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 ObjectData .. 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.

10 213 Exercise 1: Creating an Alignment with the Alignment LayoutTools .. 214 Exercise 2: Adding Free Curves and Spirals to anAlignment .. 217 Exercise 3: Adding Floating Curves to an Alignment .. 219 Tutorial: Editing Alignments .. 223 Exercise 1: Editing the Layout Parameter Values of anAlignment .. 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 DesignCriteria .. 248vi | ContentsExercise 2: Viewing and Correcting Alignment Design CriteriaViolations .. 253 Exercise 3: Working with Design Checks .. 256 Exercise 4: Modifying a Design Criteria File.