Introduction

If you haven't hidden your head in the sand the last few years, you know the world of land development is all about going 3D. It's the next jump from the board to CAD to the model. The magic question of course is, "How do I get there?" If you're part of the Autodesk world—as so many engineers, land planners, and surveyors are—then the answer to that question is AutoCAD Civil 3D.

With the growing maturity of the Civil 3D product, more and more users are making the jump from AutoCAD Land Desktop or other civil engineering software suites, and that means the user base is growing. Part of that growth is the new or occasional user who just wants to understand what all the hubbub is about, and how to make some use of all this modeling information. ...

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