AutoCAD Civil 3D: Designing Residential Projects

Course details

Learn to leverage the right Civil 3D tools to complete land development of a residential design project. During this course, Eric Chappell takes you through everything you need to know about parcels and lot grading, helping you to be an effective designer on any residential project. You'll learn how to create, edit, label, and style parcels so that you can effectively design and represent lot layouts. In addition, you'll learn how to leverage specific grading tools—such as the feature line and surface functions—to perform lot grading. Combine this with the Basic Roadway Design with Civil 3D and Civil 3D: Designing Gravity Pipe Systems courses and get the right skills to design residential developments with quality and efficiency.

Learning objectives
Understanding parcel objects and sites
Creating parcels
Laying out multiple parcels at once
Editing parcels
Displaying and annotating parcels
Creating parcel styles
Grading lots
Assigning elevations

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

03 - Understand parcel objects
04 - Understand sites

2. Creating Parcels

05 - Create parcels from objects
06 - Create parcels using the lot line tools
07 - Create parcels - Slide Line Create
08 - Create parcels - Swing Line Create
09 - Create parcels - Free Form Create
10 - Create multiple parcels at once
11 - Create a right of way

3. Editing Parcels

12 - Edit parcels using grips
13 - Add and remove PIs
14 - Use Break, Trim, and Join
15 - Add fillets and edit curves
16 - Use Union and Dissolve
17 - Use Slide Line Edit
18 - Use Swing Line Edit

4. Displaying and Annotating Parcels

19 - Apply parcel styles
20 - Apply parcel style display order
21 - Apply parcel area labels
22 - Create segment labels
23 - Edit segment labels
24 - Edit segment labels through styles
25 - Renumber parcels
26 - Create a parcel area table
27 - Create tag labels
28 - Create a parcel segment table

5. Parcel Styles

29 - Create parcel styles
30 - Create parcel area label styles
31 - Create parcel segment label styles
32 - Create a parcel table style

6. Grading

33 - Understand lot grading
34 - Assign elevations
35 - Define the building pad
36 - Adjust the building pad
37 - Label the building pad
38 - Create a lot grading surface
39 - Label a lot grading surface
40 - Smooth the lot grading surface
41 - Create an overall FG surface

AutoCAD Civil 3D: Designing Residential Projects

Authors

Eric Chappell