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Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803239064
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stephen Walz Stephen Walz
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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