Civil 3D Road Design

As the go-to intelligent highway design software, AutoCAD Civil 3D has the tools to ensure your designs are created accurately and efficiently. Exploring and applying the advanced tools that can impact your day-to-day workflows is key to working smarter in civil projects. Go beyond the basics on our 3-day Civil 3D Road Design course. The advanced techniques you learn will empower you to move your design on faster and efficiently, with confidence.

Course content for Civil 3D Road Design

• Basic skills review 
• Create a surface from a point cloud
• Simplify a surface for more effective modelling
• Create alignments using three different methods 
• Use labels and tables 
• Model using criteria based design 
• Create best fit alignment 
• Understand profiles and profile views 
• Draw tangents with curves 
• Model using entity-based design  
• Create profile views 
• Anchor profile geometry points to alignment geometry points 
• Create, edit and attach property sets 
• Manage data shortcuts and create your own to manage your project
• Create an assembly and insert a subassembly 
• Assemblies and subassemblies in the UKIE kit 
• Create a corridor 
• Work with widenings and superelevations 
• Create sample lines and section views 
• Export corridor solids, corridor feature lines and points 
• Use QTO manager, pay items and area/length-reports 
• Render the corridor, sight analysis and drive 
• Overview of InfraWorks workflow integration with Civil 3D
• Import a 3D corridor from Civil 3D to InfraWorks 
• Create an intersection that will dynamically update
• Understand the different settings for intersection offset and curb returns 
• Review your intersection properties to understand how it was made

Our 3-day Civil 3D Essentials course is recommended as a prerequisite.