AutoCAD Civil 3D: Site Design

Learn to use AutoCAD Civil 3D for site design projects such as grading and storm design.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Understanding Site Design

• What is site design?
• Understanding layout and grading
• Understanding storm design

2. Feature Lines

• Understanding feature lines
• Understanding feature lines and slites
• Creating featuring lines
• Editing feature line PIs
• Editing feature line curves
• Breaking and joining feature lines
• Trimming and extending feature lines
• Using stepped offset
• Adding and removing elevation points
• Raising and lowering feature lines
• Editing individual feature line elevations
• Setting a slope along a feature line
• Assigning surface elevations to a feature line
• Working with Split Point Resolution

3. Grading Objects

• Understanding grading objects
• Working with grading groups
• Creating grading objects
• Modifying grading objects
• Working with infills
• Working with volumes

4. Practical Grading Example

• Understanding phased grading
• Building an overall grading scheme
• Assigning grading scheme elevations
• Tying the entrance drive to the road
• Creating curbs
• Daylighting
• Creating a parking lot surface
• Adding channels and berms
• Editing the surface
• Creating an FG surface
• Labeling your grading design

5. Storm Design for Sites

• Understanding storm design for sites
• Determining inlet locations
• Creating inlets
• Adding pipes
• Adding more structures
• Labeling the storm system
• Adding a profile
• Grading the pond: Part 1
• Grading the pond: Part 2
• Finalizing the storm design

Conclusion

• Next steps