The Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2024 software supports a wide range of civil engineering tasks and creates intelligent relationships between objects. The Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Fundamentals for Grading guide is recommended for users who create or manage site grading plans using the Autodesk Civil 3D software. This guide comprises of Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Essentials (Fundamentals for Grading - Part 1)
and Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Beyond the Basics for Grading (Fundamentals for Grading - Part 2).
In Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Essentials (Fundamentals for Grading - Part 1), you will learn techniques enabling you to organize project data, work with points, create and analyze surfaces, model road corridors, perform grading and volume calculation tasks, and lay out pipe networks.
• Learn the Autodesk Civil 3D user interface.
• Create points and point groups and work with survey figures.
• Create, edit, view, and analyze surfaces.
• Create and edit alignments.
• Create sites, profiles, and cross-sections.
• Create assemblies, corridors, and intersections.
• Create grading solutions.
• Create gravity-fed and pressure pipe networks.
• Use plan production tools to create plan and profile sheets.
In Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Beyond the Basics for Grading (Fundamentals for Grading - Part 2), you will learn the use of feature lines, grading tools, and corridors to create a commercial site containing a parking lot, building pads, pond, and simple sewage lagoon. A road has been included in the survey, for which the existing conditions were collected by a survey team. The practices have been designed to allow you to practice grading lots in a small residential subdivision.
The learning content in this guide assumes that the existing conditions are already processed. To learn how to create the existing conditions, refer to Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Essentials for Surveyors.
Topics Covered:
• Introduction to grading
• Parcel grading
• Grading using feature lines
• Grading using grading objects and grading groups
• Grading using corridors
• Combining surfaces
• Visualization in Autodesk® InfraWorks®
* For professionals looking to learn only the survey functionality, consider the Civil 3D Essentials for Surveyors guide.
Prerequisites:
• Access to the 2024.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide might not be compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2023).
• Knowledge of Civil 3D basics as taught in Autodesk Civil 3D: Essentials, or equivalent experience.
• A sound understanding and knowledge of civil engineering terminology.