AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential

INTRODUCTION

This book is the first in what I hope to be a long and successful series that will educate, inspire, and even excite many people about the use of Civil 3D. In order to do all this, I decided that each book in the series has to meet the following criteria:

• It should be basic enough to enable anyone to learn Civil 3D.
• It should be in-depth enough to enable a person to be productive using Civil 3D for basic tasks.
• It should foster understanding by associating the things you do in Civil 3D with familiar things that you see every day.
• The examples and exercises should be based on the real world.
• The book should not simply demonstrate random software features but should teach the process of project completion using Civil 3D.

While ...