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Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 Unleashed

You're reading from   Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 Unleashed Elevate your civil engineering designs and advance your career with Autodesk Civil 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835467749
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tony Sabat Tony Sabat
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Preface 1. Part 1: Next-Level Civil 3D Capabilities FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Taking Civil 3D to the Next Level 3. Chapter 2: Building Blocks for Civil 3D Designs 4. Chapter 3: Advanced Design and Analysis Capabilities within Civil 3D 2025 5. Chapter 4: Rail Design Capabilities within Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 6. Part 2: Improving Our Civil BIM Designs with Civil 3D Extensions and Customized Design Workflows
7. Chapter 5: Harnessing Reality Capture to Enhance Civil Projects within Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 8. Chapter 6: Streamlining Design with Grading Optimization 9. Chapter 7: Exploring Content Catalog Editor 10. Chapter 8: Empowering Utility Modeling with Infrastructure Parts Editor 11. Chapter 9: Custom Roadway Design with Subassembly Composer 12. Part 3: Managing Information Models and Automating Workflows
13. Chapter 10: Information Modeling with Property Sets 14. Chapter 11: Introduction to Project Explorer 15. Chapter 12: Automating Routine Workflows with Dynamo and Scripting 16. Part 4: Extending Infrastructure Projects beyond Civil 3D
17. Chapter 13: Preparing and Extending the Purpose of Our BIM Designs for Collaboration and Visualization 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Optimizing our grading models

Returning to the Analyze ribbon and Grading Optimization panel, let’s go ahead and select the Optimize icon to launch the full Grading Optimization tool. In our current situation, we only have one surface model in our file, SRF - Existing Grade – FromSurveyPoints. If we had multiple surfaces in our file, we would be prompted to select a surface in our file first that we wish to optimize or integrate our design conditions into. Also note that we can move the Grading Optimization tool anywhere on our screen and still be able to interact directly with our file.

With our Grading Optimization tool launched, let’s quickly familiarize ourselves with the different panels and tools we have available to us. Right off the bat, we have the following groupings available to us (refer to Figure 6.11):

  1. Object Browser: Provides quick access to details of grading objects already assigned within our file. As we expand each category, we can...
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