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Civil 3D Core Concepts

Table of Contents

About this document: ................................................................................................................................... 4

Part 01: The Civil 3D Interface ..................................................................................................................... 5 Exercise 1: A Tour of the Civil 3D Interface........................................................................................... 6

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Exercise 2: Editing Drawing Settings ..................................................................................................... 8 Part 02: Styles............................................................................................................................................. 12 Exercise 1: Working with Styles .......................................................................................................... 13

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Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style........................................................................................................ 16 Part 03: Lines and Curves........................................................................................................................... 21

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Exercise 1: Drawing Lines with Transparent Commands

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Exercise 2: Drawing Lines with Civil 3D Line Commands Exercise 3: Drawing Curves

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Exercise 4: Re-Creating a Deed ........................................................................................................... 30

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Part 04: Points............................................................................................................................................ 32 Exercise 1: Importing Points ............................................................................................................... 33 Exercise 2: Creating Points.................................................................................................................. 33

Exercise 3: Point Groups .................................................................................................................... 33 Part 05: Surfaces ........................................................................................................................................ 35

Exercise 1: Creating a Surface From a DEM ........................................................................................ 37

Exercise 2: Creating a Surface from Contours .................................................................................... 37

Exercise 3: Creating a Surface from Points ........................................................................................ 37

Exercise 4: Adding Breaklines............................................................................................................. 37

Exercise 5: Adding a Boundary

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Exercise 6: Surface Analysis ............................................................................................................... 40

Exercise 7: Surface Volumes .............................................................................................................. 40

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Exercise 8: Labeling Contours ............................................................................................................ 40 Exercise 9: Adding Surface Labels ...................................................................................................... 40

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Part 06: Parcels .......................................................................................................................................... 42 Exercise 1: Creating a Parcel from Objects ......................................................................................... 44

Exercise 2: Creating Parcels by Layout – Slide Angle-Create .............................................................. 44

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Exercise 3: Creating Parcels by Layout – Free Form Create............................................................... 44 Exercise 4: Labeling Parcel Segments ................................................................................................ 44

Exercise 5: Creating Tag Labels .......................................................................................................... 45 Exercise 6: Creating a Curve Table ..................................................................................................... 45

Part 07: Alignments.................................................................................................................................... 47

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Exercise 1: Creating Alignments from Polylines.................................................................................. 49 Exercise 2: Creating Alignments by Layout ......................................................................................... 49 Exercise 3: Editing Alignments Graphically ........................................................................................ 49

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Exercise 4: Editing Alignments Using Grid View................................................................................. 49 Exercise 5: Using Alignment Label Sets............................................................................................... 50

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Exercise 6: Adding Alignment Segment Labels .................................................................................. 50 Exercise 7: Creating an Alignment Table............................................................................................ 50 Part 08: Profiles and Profile Views.............................................................................................................. 52

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Exercise 1: Sampling a Surface Profile ................................................................................................ 55 Exercise 2: Creating a Profile by Layout.............................................................................................. 55

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Exercise 3: Editing Profiles Graphically .............................................................................................. 55 Exercise 4: Editing Profiles Numerically ............................................................................................. 55 Exercise 5: Using Profile Label Sets..................................................................................................... 56

Exercise 6: Creating a Profile View..................................................................................................... 56

Exercise 7: Editing Profile Views ........................................................................................................ 56

Exercise 8: Adding Profile View Bands ............................................................................................... 56

Part 09: Corridors........................................................................................................................................ 58 Exercise 1: Creating an Assembly........................................................................................................ 60

Exercise 2: Creating a Simple Corridor................................................................................................ 60

Exercise 3: Working With Corridor Targets........................................................................................ 60

Exercise 4: Creating a Corridor Surface.............................................................................................. 60

Exercise 5: Using Alignment Targets................................................................................................... 61

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Exercise 6: Performing a Complex Corridor Design ........................................................................... 61 Exercise 7: Creating Sample Lines....................................................................................................... 61

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Exercise 8: Creating Section Views ..................................................................................................... 61 Part 10: Pipe Networks ............................................................................................................................... 63

Exercise 1: Creating a Parts List .......................................................................................................... 65

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Exercise 2: Creating a Pipe Network ................................................................................................... 65 Exercise 3: Editing a Pipe Network..................................................................................................... 65

Exercise 4: Drawing Pipe Networks in Profile View ........................................................................... 65 Exercise 5: Labeling a Pipe Network in Profile View ........................................................................... 66

Exercise 6: Checking Pipe Conflicts .................................................................................................... 66

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Part 11: Grading ......................................................................................................................................... 68 Exercise 1: Creating a Feature Line by Layout .................................................................................... 70 Exercise 2: Creating a Feature Line from an Object............................................................................ 70

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Exercise 3: Editing Feature Lines........................................................................................................ 70 Exercise 4: Defining Grading Criteria ................................................................................................. 70

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Exercise 5: Creating Gradings.............................................................................................................. 71 Exercise 6: Editing Gradings ............................................................................................................... 71 Part 12: Plan Production ............................................................................................................................ 73

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Exercise 1: Creating View Frames ....................................................................................................... 75 Exercise 2: Editing View Frames.......................................................................................................... 75

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Exercise 3: Creating Sheets ................................................................................................................ 75 Part 13: Sharing Data ................................................................................................................................. 77 Exercise 1: Importing Data from Land Desktop .................................................................................. 79

Exercise 2: Importing LandXML Data .................................................................................................. 79

Exercise 3: Exporting LandXML Data.................................................................................................. 79

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Exercise 4: Working with Data Shortcuts........................................................................................... 80

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Civil 3D Core Concepts

About this document:

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This workbook is designed to guide you through Engineered Efficiency’s Civil 3D Core Concepts training and is intended to be used in conjunction with “Mastering Civil 3D”. Using “Mastering Civil 3D” as a resource, this document outlines the appropriate exercises to perform, and at times supplements the book, to create a learning curriculum ideal for a comprehensive but fundamental understanding of Civil 3D. This document cannot be purchased and is available exclusively to EE customers that are eligible to participate in this training.

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Part 02: Styles

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Part 02: Styles INTRODUCTION

Introduction

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In this part you will be introduced to Civil 3D styles. As you will discover, styles are key to controlling the appearance and behavior of nearly everything you create in Civil 3D. The following is a summary of each exercise you will perform in this chapter:

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Exercise 1 – Working with Styles During this exercise you will change the style assignment of a surface and examine the affects. You will then edit a style to see how objects respond when the style they are referencing is modified. Exercise 2 – Creating a Label Style During this exercise, you will create a new style for labeling spot elevations.

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The goal of Part 2 is to familiarize you with Civil 3D styles and to give you a basic understanding of how styles will affect your drawings. At the end of this part, you will also have a basic understanding of how styles are created.

TASK(S)

Project Tasks

Describe how changing the style of an object changes its appearance and/or behavior Create a simple label style

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CIVIL 3D FEATURE(S)

Civil 3D Features Used in this Chapter Surface Styles Label Styles

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Exercise 1: Working with Styles

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Launch Civil 3D and open P02-E1-D1_Surface Styles.dwg located in the Part 02 class data folder.

Click one of the contours, right-click, and select Surface Properties.

Click the Information tab. Note the Surface style that is currently assigned.

Click the Surface style dropdown menu and select Elevation Banding (2D). Click OK.

The drawing opens showing contours on a surface.

The Surface Properties dialog box opens.

The surface is now being displayed with a style called Contours 2’ and 10’ (Background).

The appearance of the surface changes dramatically.

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Action

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ACTIVITY/PROCESS

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Changing the style of an object changes the way it is displayed, and in some cases, the way it behaves.

Select the surface, right-click, and select Edit Surface Style.

Do the following to change the color scheme for elevation banding.

The Surface Style dialog box opens.

Changing the style also affects the appearance of the surface.

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Click the Analysis tab

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Expand Elevations

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Click the Value column next to Scheme

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Select Greens

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Click OK

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This change would also affect any other surface that references the same style.

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Part 02: Styles

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Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style

The drawing opens showing a few simple lines with bearing and distance labels.

Click the General menu > Toolspace.

The Toolspace is displayed.

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Launch Civil 3D and open P02-E2D1_SampleSite.dwg located in the Part 02 class data folder.

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ACTIVITY/PROCESS

Click the Settings tab. Expand Surface > Label Styles > Spot Elevation.

Two basic spot elevation label styles currently exist.

Right-click Spot Elevation and select New.

In the next steps you will create a new style. The Label Style Composer dialog box opens.

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The Toolspace may have already been visible prior to this step.

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Click the General tab. Click in the Value column next to Layer, then click the ellipsis that appears.

Select C-TOPO-TEXT and click OK.

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Click the Information tab. For Name, enter JW-EG.

The Layer Selection dialog box opens.

C-TOPO-TEXT is now the assigned layer for this style.

Detailed information can be found in Mastering Civil 3D relating to all of the settings shown here. Pages 18-19

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Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style

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Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style

The Text Component Editor dialog box opens.

Click the Layout tab. Click in the Value column next to Contents. Click the ellipsis button that appears.

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Pages 20-22 Highlight the text in the editor window and press the Delete key.

The text is deleted.

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Detailed information can be found in Mastering Civil 3D relating to all of the settings shown here.

Configuration properties relating to surface elevation are shown below.

10. On the left side, click the Properties: menu and select Surface Elevation.

The Precision is set to two decimal places.

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11. Click in the Value column next to precision and select 0.01.

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Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style The code is inserted.

13. Click OK to dismiss the Text Component Editor dialog box. Click the Dragged State tab.

These settings control the appearance and behavior of the label when it is dragged away from its default location.

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12. Click the blue arrow to insert the label text into the code preview area.

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All settings are shown for this label style.

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14. Click the Summary tab. Click Expand All Categories.

You are returned to the drawing.

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15. Scroll down and examine the many settings associated with this style. Click OK to close the Label Style Composer dialog box.

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ADDITONAL RESOURCES

List of Resources

Civil 3D Help “Mastering Civil 3D”

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CONCLUSION Conclusion

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In this part, you experienced the use styles to control the appearance and behavior of Civil 3D objects. Although you only observed one object (a surface) and one type of label style (spot elevation), the concepts you have learned carry through to all object types and label styles. Understanding and mastering styles is an important part of learning Civil 3D for a firm as a whole. It is not necessary for every person on the team to be able to create complex styles, but all users should understand how to apply styles that have been provided for them. As for style creation, every firm should have one or more style experts on staff or the firm should employ a consultant to build and manage styles for it.

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