Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish: A practical guide to civil infrastructure design, modeling, and analysis
- Length: 422 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2023-04-14
- ISBN-10: 1803239069
- ISBN-13: 9781803239064
- Sales Rank: #661453 (See Top 100 Books)
Master Autodesk Civil 3D 2023 to develop real, project-specific, time-efficient civil infrastructure designs as an individual or an entire engineering team
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features
- Reap the potential of Civil 3D and its partner software platforms
- Scale your workflows with a larger team and bigger projects while maximizing productivity
- Explore the design and modeling tools for enhanced functionality in Civil 3D
Book Description
Autodesk Civil 3D can radically increase your civil engineering design and efficiency if you learn to make the most of its features and partner software platforms. Autodesk Civil 3D from Start to Finish will teach you how to leverage its strengths and scale efficiency to large teams.
With this book, you’ll uncover all the major features Civil 3D offers, from surface development to intelligent utility design as well as dynamic display work for smart document creation. You’ll learn to configure and manage your civil engineering designs and explore practical applications of tools and modeling techniques available within the software.
By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of Autodesk Civil 3D along with its partner programs to strategize and improve your future projects.
What you will learn
- Understand civil project basics and how Autodesk Civil 3D helps achieve them
- Connect detailed components of your design for faster and more efficient designs
- Eliminate redundant workflows by creating intelligent objects to handle design changes smoothly
- Collaborate with distributed teams efficiently and produce designs swiftly and effectively
- Optimize 3D usage and decision-making, using a model-based approach on the impact of your designs and accelerate your career
Who this book is for
This book is for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, Surveyors, Civil Designers, Civil Technicians, Civil 3D Professionals and InfraWorks Professionals looking to understand how to best leverage Civil 3D in their everyday designs. You’ll need to have a very basic understanding of Civil Engineering and Surveying workflows as well as a foundational understanding of Autodesk’s AutoCAD to make the most of this book. Basic understanding of Surveying, Civil/Environmental Engineering practices, and AutoCAD drafting knowledge is assumed.
Cover Copyright Contributors Table of Contents Preface Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Civil 3D and Starting Your Next Project for Success Chapter 1: Introduction to Civil 3D Technical requirements What is Civil 3D? What types of BIM projects can Civil 3D manage? Exploring the Civil 3D user interface The first tier of the ribbon The second tier of the ribbon The third tier of the ribbon Toolspace Drawing area Command line Understanding Civil 3D elements Summary Chapter 2: Setting up the Design Environment Technical requirements Exploring the Toolspace within Civil 3D Customizing object styles and object label styles Expediting project work with file templates Summary Chapter 3: Sharing Data within Civil 3D Technical requirements Understanding file relationships Model files Reference files Sheet files Learning how data shortcuts work Creating data shortcuts within Civil 3D Summary Part 2: Designing and Modeling with Civil 3D from Scratch Chapter 4: Configuring Survey Data with Civil 3D Technical requirements Survey setup Introduction to the Survey Toolspace Existing conditions display settings Survey workflow overview Analyzing your existing conditions Summary Chapter 5: Leveraging Points, Lines, and Curves Technical requirements Setting up a new file to import points from survey data Introduction to points Introduction to lines and curves Summary Chapter 6: Surfaces - The First Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D Technical requirements Generating a surface model Understanding surface styles Surface manipulation and management Summary Chapter 7: Alignments - The Second Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D Technical requirements Alignment creation Understanding alignment styles Types of alignment styles Alignment design checks Alignment label styles Alignment table styles Alignment manipulation and management Summary Chapter 8: Profiles - The Third Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D Technical requirements Understanding the ways to create a profile Setting up profile views Creating design profiles Understanding profiles and profile view styles Profile Styles Design Checks Label Styles Profile View Further analyzing our profile and alignment geometry Summary Part 3: Leveraging Design-Specific Tool Belts Chapter 9: Land Development Tool Belt for Everyday Use Technical requirements Creating and managing parcels Creating and managing sites Leveraging grading tools for our site design Summary Chapter 10: Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use Technical requirements Creating and managing assemblies Creating and modifying corridors Creating and modifying intersections and cul-de-sacs Creating a surface from corridors Summary Chapter 11: Advanced Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use Technical requirements Updating assemblies and designing driveways Designing a dead end Designing our residential subdivision main entrance Summary Chapter 12: Utility Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use Technical requirements Refining proposed Surface models to accommodate proper site drainage Creating and modifying storm drainage pipe networks Creating and modifying sanitary sewer pipe networks Creating and modifying pressure networks Summary Part 4: Advanced Capabilities with Civil 3D Chapter 13: Section Creation and Analysis Technical requirements Creating sample lines along alignments Creating Section Views to display modeled objects Creating intelligent section sheets for plan production Summary Chapter 14: Automating Sheet Creation Technical requirements Automating Plan Sheet creation Automating Plan and Profile Sheet creation Automating Cross Section Sheet Creation Summary Index Other Books You May Enjoy
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