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Sample Civil Design Projects
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Completing a Transportation
Engineering Project
Autodesk Civil Design features powerful tools for completing all type
and scale transportation (road, rail, runway, channel, and so on)
projects. These projects are generally alignment based. For example, a
proposed centerline is designed as a base alignment. From that
alignment, profiles and sections can be extracted and referenced in
the design of the vertical details of the project.
Autodesk Civil Design is fully integrated with AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop. This means that the centerline (horizontal)
alignment defined in AutoCAD Land Development Desktop can be
fully exploited when completing the design process in Autodesk Civil
Design. After the alignment is defined in the project, a profile can be
extracted and plotted in the drawing. This profile is then used as the
basis of your vertical alignment design. There are various options for
developing tangents and vertical curves and then defining this vertical
alignment in the project.
At this point, you’re ready to extract sections along the alignment.
After these sections are extracted, you can apply a typical design
template and various engineering rules to a range of sections. The
results are displayed both graphically and in report form. You can also
apply more advanced engineering rules such as superelevation
controls, advanced slope controls, and plan or profile transitions for
stretching a template to meet plan/profile layout geometry.
To complete the process, plan, profile, and cross sections can be cut
from the a combination of design data (project based data) and CAD
entities in your drawing.