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

Creating Alignments from Objects

A common way of creating an alignment is to use the basic AutoCAD geometry that's already in the drawing. You may be using someone's “sketch,” or maybe you've chosen to draw the initial version of the layout this way because of the simplicity of the AutoCAD tools. Whatever the case, Civil 3D makes it fairly easy to convert simple AutoCAD entities into alignments.

To create alignments from objects in your drawing, complete the following steps:

1. Open the drawing named Alignment from Objects.dwg located in the Chapter 05 class data folder.
2. On the Home tab of the ribbon, click Alignment Create Alignment From Objects. ...