A Complete Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D and Detailed Road, Highway, and Junction Design: AutoCAD Civil 3D Training for Beginners and Intermediate Users

In order to produce effective Design a Complete Road and open channel, Roundabouts in AutoCAD Civil 3D in 2023 and beyond, I created this course. I'll start from the beginning and demonstrate to you, over my shoulder, how I:

Significant Course Highlights

Import Points and Basic Setting

1. Drawing Settings

2. Unit settings

3. Points by Manual method

4. Draw Points Northing Easting and Elevation

5. Import Points as CSV and TXT File

6. Points Group Settings

7. Points Details

8. Points Editing

9. Points Label

Import points and basic settings Drawing Settings

1. Unit settings

2. Points by Manual

3. Points Northing and Easting

4. Import from MS Excel

5. Points Group

6. Points details

7. Points editing

8. Points label

Alignment creation tools and Settings

1. Draw alignment (no curves)

2. Draw alignment (with curves)

3. Curve settings

4. Insert pi

5. Delete pi

6. Sub-entity editors

7. Pick sub-entity

8. Points editing

9. Alignment grid view

Alignment creation

1. 1. Draw alignment

2. 2. Alignment creation tools

3. 3. Alignment properties

4. 4. Alignment labels

5. 5. Alignment style

6. 6. Alignment of stations settings

7. 7. Alignment of text settings

8. 8. Complete alignment settings

9. 1. Edit alignment geometry

10. 2. Sub-entity editor

11. 3. Layout parameter

12. 4. Alignment grid view

13. 5. Explain the curve and line

14. 6. Create alignment offset

15. 7. Create all alignment reports

16. 1. Explain offsets

17. 2. Create points on alignment

18. 3. Measure Alignment

19. 4. Show label on points

20. 5. Export to excel as a CSV file

    
    

AND ALIGNMENT OFFSET

1. Create Alignment Offsets

2. Applying Widening Design Criteria As Per AASHTO Standards

3. Specify Widening Manually

3. Edit offsets parameters

4. Add Automatic Widening

Create Surface Profile

1. Profile Creation Tools

2. Create a Profile from Surface

3. Create Profile View

4. Draw in Profile View

5. Station Ranges

6. Draw profile view height (Automatic/User Specified)

7. Profile Display Options

8. Initial Data Band Adjustment

9. Profile View Styles

10. Profile Horizontal and Vertical Axes Adjustment

11. Profile Graph Scale Setting.

Create a Design Profile on an existing profile

1. Profile Creation Tools

2. Create a Profile from Surface

3. Create Profile View

4. Draw in Profile View

5. Initial Data Band Adjustment

6. Bands View Elevation Adjustment

7. Profile View Styles

8. Profile Horizontal and Vertical Axes Adjustment

9. Vertical Curve Setting

10. Create a Design Profile on an Existing Profile

11. Insert New PVI

12. Delete PVI

13. Delete or Create Entity

14. Profile Grid View

Add & edit own profile bands

1. Edit Profile View Styles

2. Work with Profile Graph Scale and Grids

3. Profile View Properties

4. Delete Existing Profile Band

5. Define Cut and Fill Area by Using Hatch Properties

6. Create New Profile Bands

7. Band for Existing Elevation

8. Band for Designed Elevation

9. Band for Station

10. Band for Cut and Fill Elevation

11. Adjust Profile Elevations Ad per Band Styles

Create Assembly in Civil 3D

1. Create Assembly Base Line

2. Sub-assemblies Properties

3. Sub-assembly Parameters

4. Add Lane Sub-assemblies

5. Add Shoulder Sub-assemblies

6. Add Curb Gutter Sub-assemblies

7. Add Sidewalk Sub-assemblies

8. Add Road Barrier

9. Add Daylight Cut/Fill Slope

10. Edit Parameters after Composing

Create Road Corridor in Civil 3D

1. Create Assembly Base Line

2. Sub-assemblies Properties

3. Sub-assembly Parameters

4. Add Lane, Shoulder, and Daylight Sub-assemblies

5. Edit Parameters after Composing

6. Create Corridors

7. Assigning Base Line and Region Parameters of Corridor

8. Assign Frequency

9. Target Mapping of Corridor

10. Rebuild the Corridor

11. Analyze the Drive of the 3D View of the Road

12. Super Elevation in Corridor

Corridor surface and sample lines on the corridor

1. Corridor Properties

2. Create Corridor Surface

3. Create Corridor Boundaries

4. Rebuild Corridor

5. Create Sample Lines

6. Adjust Data Source for SL Groups

7. Adjust Station Range, Swath width, Sampling -- increments & Sampling, Controls

8. Draw Sample Lines on Corridor

Make Road Cross Section

1. 1. Create Multiple Section Views (General, Section Placement, Offset range, Elevation Range, Section Display option, Data Bands)

2. 2. Edit Section View Style (Information, Graph, Grid, Title Annotation, Horizontal axes, Vertical Axes, Display, Summary)

3. 3. Scale Adjustment and Update Group Layout

4. 4. Section View Properties (Information, Offsets, Elevations, - - Sections, Bands, Volume tables, Profile grade lines)

5. 5. Section View Group Properties (Ground Surface, Corridor, Finished ground)

6. 6. Section Views (Change Band set, Add Bands, Change Volume

7. 7. Table, Profile grade points, offset, and elevations)

8. 8. Edit Code Set Style (Point Codes, Link Codes, Shape Codes)

9. 9. Draw/Show Missing Code Set Styles in Cross Sections

10. 10. Scale Adjustment for Section View and Road Profile

11. 1. Create Multiple Section Views (General, Section Placement, Offset range, Elevation Range, Section Display option, Data Bands)

12. 2. Edit Section View Style

13. 3. Section View Properties

14. 4. Section View Group Properties

15. 5. Adjust the Section Option

16. 6. Adjust Section View Group Bands (FG Elevation & EG Elevation)

17. 7. Set Quantity Takeoff Criteria

18. 8. Compute Materials

19. 9. Generate Volume Report

20. 10. Change and Insert Volume Tables with Sections

21. 11. Insert Volume & Material Tables in the Drawing

22. 12. Export Data Table to XML File & Excel File

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Drawing Template for Cross Sections sheet creations

1. Create New Drawing Template

2. Page Setup Manager

3. Plotter Configuration Editor

4. Create Custom Paper Size (A0 or A3)

5. Adjust Plot Style Table

6. Create New Template with a Required Scale

7. Insert North Arrow and Scale Bar

8. Adjust Template on New Paper Size with Scale

9. Create New Frames and Sheets with Designed Template

Complete Design Basis Report for Client

1. Complete the Report

2. Design Standard

3. Superelevation details

4. Spiral details

5. Project details

6. Complete table information details

7. Location map and project map

8. Detailed design complete details

Pre-requisites

You must access AutoCAD Civil 3D software (student, trial, or commercial version) for this course. This course can be used with AutoCAD as well.

I wish you happy learning I hope the teaching will be memorable God Bless you.

Best Regards: Murad Farooq