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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Understanding alignment styles

Understanding what we’re looking at and the various alignment styles that we have in our arsenal is an important step to fully realizing the benefits of alignment geometry and generating these objects in a dynamic nature. In this section, we’ll familiarize ourselves with the various alignment styles available to us and learn how to display these styles in different circumstances.

For this section, we’ll continue working in our Alignment Model.dwg file, located in our Practical Autodesk Civil 3D 2024\Chapter 7 subfolder. Next, we’ll go over to the Toolspace, select the Settings tab, and then expand the Alignment category by clicking the + icon next to Alignment.

We’ll notice that we have the following list of subcategories associated with alignments (also displayed in Figure 7.25):