June 2011
Beginner
383 pages
9h 24m
English
book
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential
by Eric Chappell
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CHAPTER 17
Analyzing, Displaying, and Annotating Surfaces
In Chapter 16, you experienced a few examples of designing new terrain in the form of lot grading and pond design. With more time, you would have completed the shaping of all the lots resulting in a grading design for the entire project. With all of the major grading design components complete (road, lots, and pond in this example), it is now time to combine them into one complete design. Once you have done this, you can analyze the design to ensure that it meets several additional design and construction requirements. This analysis may result in the need for an adjustment to the design, at which time you begin an iterative process: design, analyze, adjust, design, analyze, adjust, and ...