Leveraging grading tools for our site design

Now that our new SIT - Proposed – Building Pads site has been created, we can now go ahead and start adding feature lines and grading objects to our site. In this section, we’ll learn how to leverage multiple feature lines and grading modeling tools to support a typical civil site design and analysis to further our residential subdivision design.

For starters, we’ll begin by converting our setback lines to feature lines that will ultimately be associated with our SIT - Proposed – Building Pads site. To convert our polylines representing the setback lines, we’ll go up to our Home ribbon and locate our feature line tools located within our Create Design panel.

Once located, we’ll click on the down arrow next to Feature Line to pull down the following list of feature line tools available to us (also shown in Figure 9.25):

• Create Feature Line: Allows us to manually create new feature lines...