Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Fundamentals for Grading – 2 Book Set

Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Fundamentals for Grading is comprised of two guides - Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Essentials and Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Beyond the Basics for Grading. This 2-book set is a cost-effective option for civil engineering professionals looking to learn fundamental Civil 3D skills.

In Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2025: Essentials, 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.

The Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2025 software supports a wide range of civil engineering tasks and creates intelligent relationships between objects.

The Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Beyond the Basics for Grading guide is recommended for users who create or manage site grading plans using the Autodesk Civil 3D software.

This learning guide covers 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 2025: 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 2025.0 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., 2024). 
• Experience with AutoCAD® or AutoCAD-based products and a sound understanding and knowledge of civil engineering terminology.

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• Dual monitors or separate reader device recommended to facilitate use with software.
• eBooks are intended for single-user use only. License restrictions prevent multi-user or network access.
• eBook is not a printable PDF and intended for electronic use only.
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Instructor Guides are ideal teaching resources that incorporate the following instructional tools within the learning guide: answers to the chapter review questions, suggested timing guide for course delivery, and instructor presentation files.