Total Number of Pages: 672
Total Hours: 16
The Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2025 software supports a wide range of civil engineering tasks and creates intelligent relationships between objects. The Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Beyond the Basics for Grading guide is recommended for users who create or manage site grading plans using the Autodesk Civil 3D software.
This learning guide covers the use of feature lines, grading tools, and corridors to create a commercial site containing a parking lot, building pads, pond, and simple sewage lagoon. A road has been included in the survey, for which the existing conditions were collected by a survey team. The practices have been designed to allow you to practice grading lots in a small residential subdivision.
The learning content in this guide assumes that the existing conditions are already processed. To learn how to create the existing conditions, refer to Autodesk Civil 3D 2025: Essentials for Surveyors.
Topics Covered
• Introduction to grading
• Parcel grading
• Grading using feature lines
• Grading using grading objects and grading groups
• Grading using corridors
• Combining surfaces
• Visualization in Autodesk® InfraWorks®
* For professionals looking to learn only the survey functionality, consider the Civil 3D Essentials for Surveyors guide.
Prerequisites
• Access to the 2025.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide might not be compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2024).
• Knowledge of Civil 3D basics as taught in Autodesk Civil 3D: Essentials, or equivalent experience.
• A sound understanding and knowledge of civil engineering terminology.
Course material includes access to practice files.
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