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

Creating Feature Lines

Civil 3D provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating feature lines. They can be drawn “from scratch,” by converting an AutoCAD polyline, or by extracting them from more complex Civil 3D objects such as corridors or profiles. When drawing a feature line from scratch, you must provide the elevations of each PI. For all other methods, the elevations are obtained from the object you have selected.

To use feature lines in your drawing to begin designing some lot grading, follow these steps:

1. Open the drawing named Creating Feature Lines.dwg located in the Chapter 16 class data folder. This drawing is zoomed in to lot 25 ...