CHAPTER 16
Designing New Terrain
With the completion of the pipe network designs, the design of the road is nearly finished. It is now time to move on to the next area of the design, which is the shaping of the land, or grading, of the adjacent areas. In Chapter 9, you designed a 3D model of the road in the form of a corridor. This model will serve as a basis for much of the adjacent design that will take place such as the shaping of individual lots and grading within the stormwater management area.
Each of these areas has unique design objectives. The individual lots will be shaped so that homes can be built on them without requiring significant earthmoving. The stormwater management area will require a pond to serve as a means of collecting ...
Get AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
