Mastering AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012

Specialized Subassemblies

Despite the more than 100 subassemblies available in the Corridor Modeling Catalog, sometimes you may not find the perfect component. Perhaps none of the channel assemblies exactly meet your design specifications, and you’d like to make a more customized assembly, or neither of the sidewalk subassemblies allows for the proper boulevard slopes. Maybe you’d like to try to do some preliminary lot grading using your corridor, or mark a certain point on your subassembly so that you can extract important features easily.

You can handle most of these situations by using subassemblies from the Generic Subassembly Catalog (see Figure 8-35). These simple and flexible components can be used to build almost anything, although they ...