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A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
Introduction
Congratulations on choosing this course to help you learn how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. The term
“practical” is used in the title because this course focuses on what you need to effectively use AutoCAD Civil
3D 2013, and does not complicate your learning experience with unnecessary details of every feature in the
product. Should you want to pursue aspects of features and functionality in greater detail than provided in this
course, you are directed and guided to that information.
Each lesson contains the concepts and principles of each feature to provide you with the background and
foundation of knowledge that you need to complete the lesson. You then work through real world exercises to
reinforce your understanding and provide you with practice on common tasks that other professionals are
performing with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 in the workplace every day.
You can take the lessons in this course in whatever order is appropriate for your personal needs. If you want
to concentrate on specific features, the lesson for those features does not require that you complete prior
lessons. With this course organization, you can customize your own individual approach to learning AutoCAD
Civil 3D.
When you complete this course, you will be armed with the background and knowledge to apply AutoCAD
Civil 3D to your job tasks, and become more effective and productive in your job.
Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are performance based. In other words, once you have completed the course,
you will be able to perform each objective listed. If you are already familiar with AutoCAD Civil 3D, you will be
able to analyze your existing workflows, and make changes to improve your performance based on the tools
and features that you learn and practice in this course.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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Understand and work with Object Styles.
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Create, manage and apply Label Styles.
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Import and manage Points, and work with Point Groups.
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Create and edit Alignments.
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Define Parcels.
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Create and edit Profiles and Profile Views.
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Create Corridors and extract information from them.
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Sample Sections and plot Section Views.
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Import and leverage GIS Data in your Civil 3D projects.
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Use Queries to manage and share data.
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Layout Pipe Networks and edit them in plan and profile.
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Work with the Grading tools.
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Create reports for Civil 3D objects.
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Calculate Volumes.
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Share project data with Data Shortcuts.
