Welcome to AutoCAD Civil 3D! For this and subsequent homework, a short tutorial will introduce you to the critical functions one may use in Civil 3D to do highway design. This is by no means an exhaustive discussion of the subject, but should be enough to get you started. Additional questions can be directed to the instructor (although he is by no means an expert).

You should run AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009. If prompted, indicate that you will use Civil 3D Complete, as this will provide you with access to all the Civil 3D functions we will need. Once you have started, you will then see something like the following screen.

We will eventually get through quite a few of the menus and functions. For this homework, we will use Surfaces, Alignments, and Profiles. This sequence of menu options actually fits the sequence in the homework nicely, so we will proceed through them one by one.

I find that it is useful for me to open up the “Toolspace”. The Toolspace is a visual repository of the major geometric features that we will be using, and it allows you to manipulate these features directly, rather than (or in addition to) going through the usual top-level menu structure. The Toolspace can be added to the screen by going to General -> Toolspace. The Toolspace is shown below.

Download pdf AutoCAD Civil 3D (2009) Highway Geometric Design Tutorial