Grading with Civil 3D®
This lesson series takes you through the steps to set up and calculate grading for a set of building pads and a cul-de-sac. Topics include grading setup and configuration, raising or lowering a building pad and balancing cut and fill. These lessons are taught by a practicing civil engineer using real-world projects and data.
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Lesson Contents
- Introduction and Overview
- Settings
- Grading groups and sites
- One vs. many grading groups
- Overview of grading settings
- Setting up grading criteria
- Setting the grading method
- Setting cut and fill options
- Creating and editing additional grading criteria
- Feature lines
- Using feature lines to control how grading is processed
- Use feature lines for curbs, walls, building pads, ditches, berms and more
- Creating feature lines
- Editing feature lines properties
- Grading groups
- Creating grading groups
- How grading groups work with other Civil 3D projects
- Calculating grades
- Editing grading/feature lines
- Changing the fill slope
- Watch out for UNDO
- Using the grading editor
- The power of feature lines
- Volumes
- Calculating volumes
- Raising or lowering a building pad
- Balancing cut and fill
- Summary and review