AutoCAD Civil 3D - The Complete Guide

This courses gives you a solid understanding of Civil 3D features and capabilities from the basics through to advanced components.

Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced

English, German, French, Spanish

Course Length: 50 Hours

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What you'll learn

New for AutoCAD
New for Civil 3D
Introduction to AutoCAD Civil 3D
Working with Points
Feature Lines and Grading
Working with Surfaces
Surface Volumes and Analysis
Alignments

Working with Profiles
Assemblies and Subassemblies
Working with Corridors
Sample Lines, Sections, and Quantity Takeoffs
Pipe Networks
Pressure Networks
Working with Plan Production Tools

Course Description

AutoCAD Civil 3D software is a civil design and documentation solution that supports Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows. Using AutoCAD Civil 3D, infrastructure professionals can better understand project performance, maintain more consistent data and processes, and respond faster to change.

Autodesk Civil 3D The Complete Guide is designed to give you a solid understanding of Civil 3D features and capabilities from the basics through to advanced components. Every course is designed to use all learning styles from the text, audio, video, interactivity, quizzes and practical Let Me Try examples.

To get the most out of this course, we strongly recommend you review every topic within the course, and use all the learning styles to ensure you retain the important information within. We also encourage you to take all the progress tests to ensure you have retained the knowledge, and most importantly practice with the hundreds of real-world, Let Me Try examples.

Autodesk Certification Objectives: The “!” Symbol indicates an Autodesk Certification Exam Objective. Focus on these areas to prepare for your certification exam.

Course Outline

AutoCAD Civil 3D Course Outline

New for AutoCAD 2021

New Features and Improvements

New For AutoCAD 2020

What’s New in AutoCAD 2020
AutoCAD Including Specialized Toolsets

New in Civil 3D 2020

New Features and Improvements

Introduction to AutoCAD Civil 3D

Introduction

Working with Points

Working with Points
Editing Points
Exporting and Importing Points

Feature Lines and Grading

Feature Lines
Grading

Working with Surfaces

Working with Surfaces
Adding to Surfaces
Editing Surfaces
Exporting and Sharing Surfaces
Surface Volumes and Analysis
Surfaces Analysis
Surface Labels and Tables

Alignments

Creating Alignments
Alignment Editing
Alignment Labeling

Working with Profiles

Working with Profiles
Editing Profiles
Profile Labels

Assemblies and Subassemblies

Assemblies
Subassemblies

Working with Corridors

Creating Corridors
Corridor Attributes
Corridors Editing
Corridor Analysis

Parcels

Parcels

Sample Lines, Sections, and Quantity Takeoffs

Sample Lines
Section Views
Section View Edits and Analysis

Pipe Networks

Pipes and Structures
Part Catalog
Pipe Network
Pipe and Structure Labeling

Pressure Networks

Pressure Networks
Pressure Network Properties
Pressure Network Labeling

Working with Plan Production Tools

Plan Production Tools
Data Shortcuts

Navigation Strategies

Beginners: Complete the course in order from beginning to end. Once any topic is completed, you will have full access to it at any time for one year after registration, to use as a resource.

Intermediate/Advanced Users: Use the course as a flexible resource tool to find what you need, whenever you need it. Try the assessment tests first, if you get 80%+ you can move to the next level, if you get less than 80% you should complete the lecture. This gives you a pre and post-assessment score, which can be used to track your skills improvements.

Certification Objectives

AutoCAD Civil 3D Professional Certification Objectives

STYLES

Create and use object styles
Create and use label styles
Lines and Curves
Use the line and curve commands
Use the Transparent commands

POINTS

Use the line and curve commands
Use the Transparent commands
Use point groups to control the display of points

SURFACES

Identify key characteristics of surfaces
Create and edit surfaces
Use styles and settings to display surface information
Create a surface by assembling fundamental data
Use styles to analyze surface display results
Annotate surfaces

PARCELS

Design a parcel layout
Select parcel styles to change the display of parcels
Select styles to annotate parcels

ALIGNMENTS

Design a geometric layout
Create alignments
Profiles and Profile Views
Create a surface profile
Design a profile
Create a profile view style
Create a profile view

CORRIDORS

Design and create a corridor
Derive information and data from a corridor
Design and create an intersection

SECTIONS AND SECTION VIEWS

Create and analyze sections and section views
Pipe Networks Design and create a pipe network

GRADING

Design and create a grading model
Create a grading model feature line
Managing and Sharing Data

PLAN PRODUCTION

Create a sheet set Use view frames

SURVEY

Identify key characteristics of survey data
Use description keys to control the display of points created from survey data
Create a boundary drawing from field data

About the Author

Mike Thomas spent the first 12-years of his career in the Autodesk channel working for an Autodesk reseller as an Application Specialist. During his travels, he delivered countless hours of training, support, demos, and implementations. He was very fortunate to be able to help solve many issues with Autodesk software. Mike has been using AutoCAD since r13, cut his solid modeling teeth on Mechanical Desktop, and has been using Inventor since before it was known as Inventor. Data Management has always been a big part of his professional life, for the most part with Autodesk Vault.