You're reading from Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish A practical guide to civil infrastructure design, modeling, and analysis

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239064

Length 422 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Civil3D

Concepts

Computer Aided Design

Authors (2):

Stephen Walz

Tony Sabat

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Civil 3D and Starting Your Next Project for Success

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Civil 3D FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting up the Design Environment

4. Chapter 3: Sharing Data within Civil 3D

5. Part 2: Designing and Modeling with Civil 3D from Scratch

6. Chapter 4: Configuring Survey Data with Civil 3D

7. Chapter 5: Leveraging Points, Lines, and Curves

8. Chapter 6: Surfaces - The First Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D

9. Chapter 7: Alignments - The Second Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D

10. Chapter 8: Profiles - The Third Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D

11. Part 3: Leveraging Design-Specific Tool Belts

12. Chapter 9: Land Development Tool Belt for Everyday Use

13. Chapter 10: Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use

15. Chapter 12: Utility Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use

16. Part 4: Advanced Capabilities with Civil 3D

17. Chapter 13: Section Creation and Analysis

18. Chapter 14: Automating Sheet Creation

19. Index

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Technical requirements

It’s important to note that Autodesk’s Civil 3D can oftentimes be very taxing on your computer. There is a lot of processing that goes on with modeled design elements, even in the background, that enables the dynamic (connected) capabilities to occur throughout the Building Information Modeling (BIM) design lifecycle.

In turn, many technical requirements need to be considered to allow Autodesk’s Civil 3D to operate at its full potential. We’ll review the minimum requirements that Autodesk recommends, with a few of my suggestions added to increase efficiency and speed throughout the BIM design process:

Operating system: 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10
Processor: 3+ GHz
Memory: 16 GB RAM (I suggest going with either 64 GB or 128 GB)
Graphics card: 4 GB (I suggest going with 8+ GB)
Display resolution: 1980 x 1080 with True Color
Disk space: 16 GB
Pointing device: MS Mouse compliant