AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Tutorials

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Published By: Autodesk, Inc. 111 Mclnnis Parkway San Rafael, CA 94903, USAContents Chapter 1 Welcome to the AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Getting More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Setting Up the Workspace3 Saving Your Tutorial Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 Getting Started Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Tutorial: Understanding the AutoCAD Civil 3D User Interface . . . . . . 5 Exercise 1: Finding Tools6 Exercise 2: Understanding the Toolspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Exercise 3: Using the Panorama Window12 Tutorial: Using Basic Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Tutorial: Viewing AutoCAD Civil 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Exercise 1: Setting Up the Drawing Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Exercise 2: Changing the Display of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Exercise 3: Viewing a Drawing in Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Chapter 3 Points Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tutorial: Creating Point Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Exercise 1: Creating Description Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Exercise 2: Creating Point Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Exercise 3: Importing Points from a Database . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Tutorial: Displaying and Editing Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Exercise 1: Displaying an Externally Referenced Drawing . . . . . 31 iiiExercise 2: Changing the Style of a Point Group . . . . . . . . . . 32 Exercise 3: Changing Point Group Display Order . . . . . . . . . 33 Exercise 4: Removing an Externally Referenced Drawing . . . . . 35 Exercise 5: Editing Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Tutorial: Adding User-Defined Properties to Points . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Exercise 1: Creating User-Defined Properties37 Exercise 2: Creating a Label Style That Displays a User-Defined Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Exercise 3: Assigning User-Defined Properties to Points . . . . . . 41 Exercise 4: Importing Points with User-Defined Properties . . . . 42 Exercise 5: Querying User-Defined Property Information . . . . . 44 Chapter 4 Point Cloud Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Tutorial: Working with Point Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Exercise 1: Importing Point Cloud Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Exercise 2: Working with Point Cloud Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Exercise 3: Adding Point Cloud Data to a Surface . . . . . . . . . 53 Chapter 5 Surfaces Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Tutorial: Creating and Adding Data to a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Exercise 1: Creating a TIN Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Exercise 2: Adding Point Data to a Surface64 Exercise 3: Adding Breaklines to a Surface65 Exercise 4: Adding an Outer Boundary to a Surface . . . . . . . . 70 Tutorial: Working with Large Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Exercise 1: Limiting Imported Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Exercise 2: Simplifying a Surface79 Tutorial: Changing the Surface Style and Display81 Exercise 1: Editing the Surface Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Exercise 2: Using a Different Style for a Surface . . . . . . . . . . 83 Exercise 3: Labeling a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Tutorial: Editing Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Exercise 1: Swapping TIN Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Exercise 2: Deleting TIN Lines91 Exercise 3: Adding a Hide Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Exercise 4: Smoothing a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Tutorial: Creating a Watershed and Water Drop Analysis . . . . . . . . 96 Exercise 1: Configuring a Style for Watershed Display . . . . . . . 97 Exercise 2: Generating a Watershed Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Exercise 3: Creating a Watershed Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Exercise 4: Extracting Objects from a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Exercise 5: Analyzing Surface Water Runoff101 Tutorial: Generating Surface Volume Information105 Exercise 1: Creating the Base and Comparison Surfaces . . . . . 106 Exercise 2: Creating a TIN Volume Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 iv | ContentsExercise 3: Creating a Composite Volume Calculation . . . . . . 110 Tutorial: Visualizing Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Exercise 1: Moving Multi-View Blocks to a Surface . . . . . . . . 111 Exercise 2: Rendering a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Tutorial: Obtaining an Aerial Image and Draping It on a Surface . . . . 116 Exercise 1: Publishing Surface Data to Google Earth . . . . . . . 117 Exercise 2: Importing a Google Earth Image . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Exercise 3: Draping an Image on a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Chapter 6 Survey Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Tutorial: Survey Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Exercise 1: Creating a Survey Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Exercise 2: Setting the Equipment and Figure Prefix Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Exercise 3: Adjusting and Verifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Exercise 4: Setting Survey Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Exercise 5: Setting Up a Linework Code Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Tutorial: Importing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Exercise 1: Importing Field-Coded Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . 136 Exercise 2: Updating Imported Survey Data139 Tutorial: Viewing and Editing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Exercise 1: Viewing Survey Data144 Exercise 2: Editing a Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Tutorial: Analyzing and Reducing Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Exercise 1: Querying Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14