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Alignments - The Second Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D

As mentioned, within any Civil 3D design, Surfaces, Alignments, and Profiles are often considered the three major foundation components required to build a true civil infrastructure design model. In Chapter 6, Surfaces - The First Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D, we took a deep dive into surfaces. We learned about several workflows to create, modify, interrogate, and analyze the existing Surface Model that we had generated from survey point data.

In this chapter, we’ll take a similar deep dive into the world of alignments. Not only will we explore alignments in our existing Survey but we’ll also begin to explore how, in many design scenarios, our design ...

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