Summary

This chapter serves as an educational and awareness chapter for briefly explaining the new topics that will be covered in this book. They are all relevant to our previous book and will be used in your daily role as a civil engineer, but in varying ways. This chapter was intended to give you a broad understanding of each and then the following chapters will begin branching off and dive deeper into each topic, such as reality capture or custom utility designs.

With a brief overview of the contents of the next level of Civil 3D, let’s refamiliarize ourselves with an introduction to Civil 3D and establish the foundation to begin diving into the full extent of Civil 3D and its counterpart programs. The next chapter serves as a brief refresher for level setting on what was previously covered, and then as we progress, we will follow a similar pattern and dive into the corresponding elements. Feel free to reach back into the previous book or chapters to fill in any gaps and...