AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Training


Civil 3D Training

Custom Content
We can adapt any course from our existing programs, or create entirely new workshops tailored to your specific needs. While we teach the “standard” AutoCAD® Civil 3D® classes, it’s more cost effective, to design classes that focus on your methods, and use your data. Custom training is a cost-effective, highly targeted way to increase organizational effectiveness and enhance job skills and performance.

Recommendation:
The following topics from our standard 5-Day AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Productivity course (shown in the order in which they are taught) are designed to teach the fundamentals of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® tools, workflow, and productivity, to those with a working knowledge of AutoCAD. We recommend choosing from these topics to serve as a foundation for creating a custom curricula. Choose them all, or choose a few, and together we’ll design a program to meet your needs.

Topics highlighted in blue can be found in our library.

Civil 3D Interface (1 Hour)

  • Workspaces
  • Toolspace
  • Prospector (All Civil 3D Objects)
  • Settings Tab (All Civil 3D Object Settings)
  • Simple CUI (Custom User Interface)
  • Menus
  • Toolbars/Ribbon

Geospatial Data (2 Hours)

Terrain Modeling (4 Hours)

  • Surface Creation
  • Delaunay Triangulation and TIN Creation
  • Importing ASCII file
  • Object Styles
  • Label Styles
  • Drawing/Annotative Scaling
  • Breaklines (Feature Lines)
  • Feature Line Tools/Grading Tools
  • Export LandXML

Data Shortcuts (1 Hour)

  • Surface Data Shortcuts
  • Terminology
  • Workflow
  • Working Folder
  • Understanding “The Project”
  • Editing Object Data
  • Updating references
  • Data shortcut editor

Land Surveying (4 Hours)

Civil 3D Parcels (4 Hours)

Alignments (2 Hours)

  • Alignment Creation
  • By layout
  • By polyline
  • Alignment labels
  • Editing alignment geometry

Profiles & Profile Views (2 Hours)

  • Profile Creation (Existing)
  • Profile View Creation
  • Profile View labels (troubleshooting labels by color, linetype, etc)
  • Profile Creation (Proposed)
  • Profile Layout
  • Layout tools
  • Editing profile geometry via grips
  • Editing profile geometry via the advanced view

Corridor Modeling (4 Hours)

  • Concepts
  • Terminology
  • Assemblies & Subassemblies
  • Subassembly help
  • Links, points, and shapes
  • Code Set Styles
  • Naming conventions
  • The first assembly
  • Modifying assembly/subassembly parameters
  • Creating a Corridor
  • Targets
  • Daylight
  • Creating a Corridor Surface
  • Corridor Surface Border

Grading (4 Hours)

  • Grading Groups
  • Grading Criteria
  • Berm/Ditch Grading
  • Pond Grading

Cross Sections (2 Hours)

  • Concepts
  • Terminology
  • Creating Sample Lines
  • Sample Line Groups
  • Sampling Sections
  • Code set styles in cross sections
  • Section view styles
  • Quantities
  • Section volumes
  • Cross Section Sheets

Introduction to Pipe Networks (4 Hours)

  • Terminology
  • Topology
  • Pre-Design Considerations
  • Uphill design
  • Flow line labels
  • NULL Structures
  • Styles
  • Plan styles
  • Profile Styles
  • XS Styles
  • Label Styles
  • Proper workflow methodology

Sanitary (wastewater) & Storm Networks (4 Hours)

  • Network creation
  • Manipulating sites
  • Defining proper alignments
  • Defining proper networks
  • Creation of network vs. creation of a “run”
  • Editing pipe networks
  • Modifying part sizes in Partbuilder
  • Network interference

Plan Production (2 Hours)

  • Plan Production for Plan & Profile sheets
  • Harnessing Plan Production tools for automatic cross section sheet production (e.g. typical DOT section sheets).

About the Instructor:
Scott McEachron, co-author of “Mastering AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010 & 2011,“ (Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 is the Autodesk Official Training Courseware) is a Subject Matter Expert for numerous firms on Engineering News-Record’s list of Top 100 Design Firms, and has been an instructor at Autodesk University for 7 years. A member of the Project Management Institute, Scott has nearly 20 years experience implementing Autodesk design technologies in civil engineering, land surveying, and geospatial firms.

For over 10 years, Scott has provided professional technical services to Autodesk, and a “who’s who” of Autodesk resellers that includes Avatech Solutions, Alignex, CAD Technology Center, Seiler Instrument, Total CAD Systems, DC CADD, and others. He’s taught federal, state, and local agencies, as well as public and private firms of all sizes. His methods are known for being innovative, comprehensive, practical, and effective. Born and raised in Iowa, Scott currently lives near Fort Worth, TX.

Alternatives:
If you are unable to afford, or don’t have time for Custom Training, we offer three tiers of membership to our Technology Suite starting at just $20. Membership gives you access to our comprehensive Civil 3D Library – an affordable alternative to customized, localized training, when time and money matter (topics highlighted in blue below are available in the Library). Click Here for Library registration information.

Civil 3D Implementation
Investigating a Civil 3D Implementation? Don’t hesitate to Contact Us and be sure to check out AN INCREMENTAL PROCESS FOR SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION by Robert G. Fichman, Ph.D. and Scott A. Moses, Ph.D. as published in the MIT Sloan Management Review.

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