A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014

Welcome to the next generation of training materials for AutoCAD Civil 3D, the Practical Guide.

The Practical Guide books have been formatted to maximize learning by starting all lessons with an explanation of the concepts and processes that will be covered; followed by real world examples in step-by-step exercises that you can perform yourself with the included dataset.

This new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 book focuses on effectively using this powerful software, providing you with skills that other professionals are using in the workplace every day.

Objectives

After completing this book, you will be able to:

Navigate the latest workspace ribbon

Understand and work with Object Styles

Create, manage and apply Label Styles

Import and manage Points, and work with Point Groups

Create and edit Alignments

Define and edit Parcels

Create and edit Profiles and Profile Views

Create Corridors and extract information from them

Sample Sections and plot Section Views

Import and leverage GIS Data in your Civil 3D projects

Use Queries to manage and share data

Layout Pipe Networks and edit them in plan and profile

Create Pressure Pipe Networks and edit them in plan and profile

Work with the Grading tools

Create reports for Civil 3D objects

Calculate Volumes

Share project data with Data Shortcuts

This new, large format book is spiral bound, to lie perfectly flat on your desk.

It features over 130 exercises organized into 34 lessons in 11 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand "why", not just "how".

This book was written by authors with practical, real world experience, not by academics or programmers. Rick Ellis understands not only how to teach the software, but also has many years of first-hand experience using the software to complete actual projects.

Rick Ellis has worked with and taught AutoCAD since the mid-90s, along with Civil 3D and other Autodesk products. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books on AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D and Land Desktop. This practical background and approach has earned Rick high ratings as a speaker at Autodesk University, and a spot on the national speaker team for the AUGI CAD Camps.