Book description
Learn AutoCAD Civil 3D essentials quickly and easily
The new Essentials series from Sybex helps you quickly learn and use Autodesk software. This beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of Civil 3D and teaches everything readers need to design in a dynamic environment quickly and successfully. As readers design a residential subdivision, they'll learn how to import field-gathered survey data, design in 2D and 3D, add boundaries and pipe networks, design roads using alignments, profiles, and corridors, create construction documents, and much more.
The four-color Essentials book features real-world tutorials, downloadable before-and-after exercise files, and additional suggested exercises. In addition, this book is a recommended Certification Preparation study guide resource for the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Associate and Professional exams.
Covers Civil 3D fundamentals, so you become quickly productive with the software
Prepares you for the AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Associate and Certified Professional exams
Uses straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to teach the software's core features and functions
Gives you the skills you'll need throughout a production pipeline, from design to construction, whether you're a beginner or a more experienced user brushing up on the basics
Get quickly up to speed on AutoCAD Civil 3D with AutoCAD Civil 3D Essentials.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dear Reader,
- Dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: Navigating the Civil 3D User Interface
- CHAPTER 2: Leveraging a Dynamic Environment
- CHAPTER 3: Establishing Existing Conditions Using Survey Data
- CHAPTER 4: Modeling the Existing Terrain Using Surfaces
- CHAPTER 5: Designing in 2D Using Alignments
- CHAPTER 6: Displaying and Annotating Alignments
- CHAPTER 7: Designing Vertically Using Profiles
- CHAPTER 8: Displaying and Annotating Profiles
- CHAPTER 9: Designing in 3D Using Corridors
- CHAPTER 10: Creating Cross Sections of the Design
- CHAPTER 11: Displaying and Annotating Sections
- CHAPTER 12: Designing and Analyzing Boundaries Using Parcels
- CHAPTER 13: Displaying and Annotating Parcels
- CHAPTER 14: Creating Pipe Networks
- CHAPTER 15: Displaying and Annotating Pipe Networks
- CHAPTER 16: Designing New Terrain
- CHAPTER 17: Analyzing, Displaying, and Annotating Surfaces
- CHAPTER 18: From Design to Construction
- APPENDIX A: Civil 3D Certification
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): Sybex
- ISBN: 9781118016787
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