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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Understanding Grading Objects
At times you will want Civil 3D to calculate the location, shape, and elevations of feature lines rather than designing them yourself. Examples of this situation would be projecting a slope through a certain distance or elevation or finding the intersection of a slope with a surface. For these cases, Civil 3D provides the grading object. Figure 16.8 shows a pond design composed of several grading objects, each one using a different set of parameters to calculate an edge that defines the shape of the pond.
FIGURE 16.8 A pond design composed of grading objects
A grading object is a collection of feature lines whose ...