Getting started AutoCAD Civil 3D CVEN2012 Spring 2016

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3 Getting started AutoCAD Civil 3D CVEN2012 Spring 2016 If you would like help learning the basics of AutoCAD Civil 3D before starting the project in the class, see the links below. I included the most useful sources I know of, so you can learn the basics quickly and perhaps struggle a little less as you complete the project. You may complete the project entirely by hand (no computer drawing). This will give you an understanding of topography because when you do the triangulation manually, rather than relying on Civil 3D to do it for you, you will get a feeling for what contours actually represent in three dimensions. Unfortunately, I have heard of many vases where professional surveyors got into serious trouble when they rely on CAD too much and fail to use common sense checks routinely. Practical understanding is much more important in practice than being proficient in computer programs. If you need to understand AutoCAD Civil 3D at your office, they will teach you in much greater detail than we can cover in this class; at this point you should be getting a solid foundation in the fundamentals of surveying. While AutoCAD is generally being phased out of use for structural engineering drawings and replaced with Revit, the Civil 3D component of AutoCAD is widely used in grading and land planning, so learning the program would be very useful to you if you plan to do civil design and planning. CAD tutorials (from the most basic to advanced features of CAD) Civil 3D (these pertain specifically to the surveying features of CAD Civil 3D (inserting points, creating surfaces, adjusting topographic lines, and so on) Go to this link and click the Access Lynda link (see arrow below: After signing into Lynda, go to this link in the same browser:

4 This source contains a pretty comprehensive training in Civil 3D, and if you want to intern with a company doing civil infrastructure, you should consider going through the tutorials and simultaneously completing them in CAD. Otherwise, here are the ones I recommend you complete to do well in this class: Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Points Creating point groups Chapter 3 Defining Existing Ground Surfaces all six videos: Creating a surface from point data Controlling Build Properties Adding breaklines to improve accuracy Editing surface triangulation Labeling contours Understanding object layers

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10 Name: Lab Day: Group Number: Azimuth of Line B to C. Degrees Minutes Seconds Decimal form (Degrees) Traverse Stations Point # Backsight angle reading on instrument (sighting from B to C). Usually 0d 0m 0s Degrees Minutes Seconds (Degrees) Horizontal Angle Degrees Minutes Seconds Horizontal Angle (degrees) A Total Station at: B Decimal form Horizontal Distance (feet) Vertical Distance (feet) Description Azimuth from True North (degrees) Departure (feet) Latitude (feet) X (feet) Y (feet) Z (feet) Backsight to: C

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