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

CHAPTER 3

Establishing Existing Conditions Using Survey Data

With our tour of the Civil 3D user interface and our study of its capabilities behind us, it's time now to do what we came here to do: use Civil 3D to complete a project. In the introduction, we referred to land development as sculpting on a very large scale. Now, let's imagine a sculptor preparing to create a work of art from a large piece of wood. Probably, the first thing the sculptor would do is study the piece of wood carefully by assessing its dimensions, shape, and surface features. These elements would all factor into how the sculptor would approach his or her work. A sculptor with some computer savvy might even model the original piece of wood on a computer and plan out each ...