Alignment creation

In this section, we’ll begin exploring the multiple ways to create an alignment, all while getting a full understanding of the alignment creation tools available to us within the Civil 3D environment. To kick things off, we’ll go ahead and open up our Survey Model.dwg file located in our Practical Autodesk Civil 3D 2024\Chapter 7 subfolder.

For design purposes, we’ll need to convert our linework depicting the centerline of York Hwy CL we created back in Chapter 5, Leveraging Points, Lines, and Curves. We’ll need to convert to an alignment so that we have something to tie our design alignment into when we start laying out our subdivision itself. By tying two alignments to each other, we’re able to dynamically design our intersections that will represent the entrance(s) of our site.

Moving over into our Survey Model.dwg file, let’s go ahead and isolate our linework depicting York Hwy CL. To do so, we’ll select...