Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 from Start to Finish: A practical guide to civil infrastructure design, modeling, and analysis

by Stephen Walz, Tony Sabat

Overview

Master Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 to develop real, project-specific, time-efficient civil infrastructure designs as an individual or an entire engineering team

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Key Features:

Reap the potential of Civil 3D and its partner software platforms

Scale your workflows with a larger team and bigger projects while maximizing productivity

Explore the design and modeling tools for enhanced functionality in Civil 3D

Book Description:

Autodesk Civil 3D can radically increase your civil engineering design and efficiency if you learn to make the most of its features and partner software platforms. Autodesk Civil 3D from Start to Finish will teach you how to leverage its strengths and scale efficiency to large teams.

With this book, you'll uncover all the major features Civil 3D offers, from surface development to intelligent utility design as well as dynamic display work for smart document creation. You'll learn to configure and manage your civil engineering designs and explore practical applications of tools and modeling techniques available within the software.

By the end of this book, you'll have a thorough understanding of Autodesk Civil 3D along with its partner programs to strategize and improve your future projects.

What You Will Learn:

Understand civil project basics and how Autodesk Civil 3D helps achieve them

Connect detailed components of your design for faster and more efficient designs

Eliminate redundant workflows by creating intelligent objects to handle design changes smoothly

Collaborate with distributed teams efficiently and produce designs swiftly and effectively

Optimize 3D usage and decision-making, using a model-based approach on the impact of your designs and accelerate your career

Who this book is for:

This book is for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, Surveyors, Civil Designers, Civil Technicians, Civil 3D Professionals and InfraWorks Professionals looking to understand how to best leverage Civil 3D in their everyday designs. You'll need to have a very basic understanding of Civil Engineering and Surveying workflows as well as a foundational understanding of Autodesk's AutoCAD to make the most of this book. Basic understanding of Surveying, Civil/Environmental Engineering practices, and AutoCAD drafting knowledge is assumed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803239064
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	04/14/2023
Pages:	422
Sales rank:	541,809
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Since early 2003, Stephen has been working with a multitude of design, collaboration, and visualization platforms supporting the AEC Industry. His primary focus has been on the Civil and Environmental Engineering side, where he has held varying levels of design support and CAD/BIM/CIM Management roles.Currently, he is HDR's Digital Design Lead for Civil Infrastructure where he works with their BG Leadership, Technology Leadership, Vendors, and ITG, to evaluate and implement new technologies and strategies as it relates to the Civil side, build awareness and drive consistency with how they're leveraging the various tools and platforms, and identify ways to build skill sets across HDR around the platforms and technologies being leveraged.

Tony Sabat is a consultant, adviser, and writer in the AEC industry focusing on innovative and disruptive technologies and processes. He has written and spoken for numerous organizations around the world and worked with many large companies from industrial to automotive developing strategies for implementing many emerging technologies such as reality data modeling and virtual construction. He began his career in the early iterations of building information modeling and worked on integrating such concepts and technologies into the civil infrastructure space. Tony focuses primarily on reality capture, building information modeling, digital twin strategies, as well as virtual design and construction.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Civil 3D

• Setting up the Design Environment

• Sharing Data within Civil 3D

• Configuring Survey Data with Civil 3D

• Leveraging Points, Lines, and Curves

• Surfaces - The First Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D

• Alignments – The Second Foundational Component of Designs within Civil 3D

• Profiles - The Third Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D

• Land Development Tool Belt for Everyday Use

• Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use

• Advanced Roadway Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use

• Utility Modeling Tool Belt for Everyday Use

• Section Creation and Analysis

• Automating Sheet Creation