| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 806 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
""Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Who Should Read This Book""; ""The Mastering Series""; ""What Is Covered in This Book""; ""How to Contact the Authors""; ""Chapter 1: Getting Dirty: The Basics of Civil 3D""; ""Windows on the Model""; ""It�s All About Style""; ""The Underlying Engine""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 2: Lines and Curves""; ""Label Lines and Curves""; ""Curves""; ""Transparent Commands""; ""Inquiry Commands""; ""Drawing Settings""; ""The Bottom Line"" |
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""Chapter 3: Lay of the Land: Survey""""Understanding the Concepts""; ""Databases Everywhere!""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 4: X Marks the Spot: Points""; ""Anatomy of a Point""; ""Creating Basic Points""; ""Basic Point Editing""; ""Changing Point Elevations""; ""Point Styles""; ""Point Label Styles""; ""Point Tables""; ""User-Defined Properties""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 5: The Ground Up: Surfaces in Civil 3D""; ""Digging In""; ""Creating Surfaces""; ""Refining and Editing Surfaces""; ""Surface Styling and Analysis""; ""Comparing Surfaces""; ""Labeling the Surface"" |
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""The Bottom Line""""Chapter 6: Don�t Fence Me In: Parcels""; ""Creating and Managing Sites""; ""Creating a Boundary Parcel""; ""Creating a Wetlands Parcel""; ""Creating a Right-of-Way Parcel""; ""Creating Subdivision Lot Parcels Using Precise Sizing Tools""; ""Creating Open Space Parcels Using the Free Form Create Tool""; ""Editing Parcels by Deleting Parcel Segments""; ""Best Practices for Parcel Creation""; ""Labeling Parcel Areas""; ""Labeling Parcel Segments""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 7: Laying a Path: Alignments""; ""Alignments, Pickles, and Freedom""; ""Creating an Alignment"" |
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""Editing Alignment Geometry""""Alignments As Objects""; ""Styling Alignments""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 8: Cut to the Chase: Profiles""; ""Elevate Me""; ""Profile Display and Stylization""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 9: Slice and Dice: Profile Views in Civil 3D""; ""A Better Point of View""; ""Editing Profile Views""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 10: Templates Plus: Assemblies and Subassemblies""; ""Subassemblies""; ""Building Assemblies""; ""Working with Generic Subassemblies""; ""Working with Daylight Subassemblies""; ""Saving Subassemblies and Assemblies for Later Use"" |
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""The Bottom Line""""Chapter 11: Easy Does It: Basic Corridors""; ""Understanding Corridors""; ""Creating a Simple Road Corridor""; ""Corridor Anatomy""; ""Adding a Surface Target for Daylighting""; ""Applying a Hatch Pattern to Corridor""; ""Creating a Corridor Surface""; ""Performing a Volume Calculation""; ""Creating a Corridor with a Lane Widening""; ""The Bottom Line""; ""Chapter 12: The Road Ahead: Advanced Corridors""; ""Getting Creative with Corridor Models""; ""Using Alignment and Profile Targets to Model a Roadside Swale""; ""Modeling a Peer-Road Intersection"" |
| Summary |
Understand concepts, create perfect designs, and manage every stage of a project with this thorough guide to Autodesk's powerful civil engineering software. Authored by experts with close ties to Autodesk and the Civil 3D community, it features an in-depth, tutorial-based approach grounded in real-world examples so that you get the very most out of Civil 3D. This practical guide focuses squarely on how to use the software in a production environment and provides insights, insider tips, and advanced techniques you won't find anywhere else |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
AutoCAD. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86111239
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AutoCAD fast |
| Subject |
Civil engineering -- Computer programs
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Surveying -- Computer programs
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Three-dimensional display systems.
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three-dimensional.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General.
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Civil engineering -- Computer programs
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Surveying -- Computer programs
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Three-dimensional display systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Probert, Dana, 1976-
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| LC no. |
2007039270 |
| ISBN |
9780470245378 |
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0470245379 |
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1281100226 |
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9781281100221 |
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9786611100223 |
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6611100229 |
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