Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 Essential Training

11h 29mBeginner2024-11-25

Authors

Eric Chappell

Civil 3D Consultant and Instructor with 20+ years in civil engineering

Course details

Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 is a feature-packed design and documentation solution for civil engineering, design, and surveying. By mastering the best-in-class tools within Civil 3D, you can boost your efficiency and effectiveness as a civil engineer, surveyor, or designer. In this course, Eric Chappell helps you get up and running with this powerful software, showing how to use most of the tools in Civil 3D as you work through a project: a new residential development. After an overview of the user interface, Eric demonstrates how to model a surface, lay out parcels, and design road geometry in plan and profile views. Next, he explains how to create corridors, cross-sections, gravity pipe networks, and pressure pipe networks. Then he covers working with feature lines and grading objects, and wraps up with an overview of how to analyze and annotate surfaces. Each chapter is full of shortcuts and tips to make your workflow smoother and more efficient.

Learning objectives
Use tools like the Project Explorer to create and edit 3D objects that can be rendered across multiple views.
Apply styles to labels strategically to showcase the interrelationship of objects and labels.
Integrate and interpret survey data across documents and projects.
Analyze and model terrain across multiple surfaces.
Create and edit feature lines across a domain of reports and views.

Skills covered

AutoCAD Civil 3DConstruction ManagementCivil EngineeringBIMAutodeskEssential TrainingAEC

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learning the essentials of Civil 3D
02 - What you should know

1. Navigating the User Interface

03 - Getting to know the user interface
04 - Use the application menu
05 - Use the ribbon to launch commands
06 - Explore the model with the Prospector tab
07 - Explore the drawing settings with the Settings tab
08 - Explore Panorama
09 - Use transparent commands
10 - Use the Inquiry Tool
11 - Getting to know Project Explorer
12 - Browse objects with Project Explorer
13 - Edit objects with Project Explorer
14 - Compare objects with Project Explorer
15 - Create tables and reports with Project Explorer

2. Leveraging a Dynamic Environment

16 - Understand objects and styles
17 - Apply label styles to labels
18 - Explore object relationships
19 - Explore the relationship between objects and labels
20 - Share data using Data Shortcuts

3. Establishing Existing Conditions

21 - What is survey data
22 - Create a survey database
23 - Import survey data
24 - Apply a linework code set
25 - Configure and apply description keys
26 - Apply a figure prefix database
27 - Create and apply point groups
28 - Edit survey points
29 - Edit survey figures
30 - Work with COGO points

4. Modeling the Existing Terrain with Surfaces

31 - Understand surfaces
32 - Create an existing ground surface
33 - Add surface breaklines
34 - Add surface boundaries
35 - Delete surface lines
36 - Edit surface points
37 - Analyze surface elevations
38 - Analyze surface slope
39 - Annotate a surface

5. Designing with Alignments

40 - Understand alignments
41 - Create alignments from objects
42 - Create alignments using the Alignment Creation Tools
43 - Edit with alignment grips
44 - Apply the Alignment Editing Tools
45 - Edit alignments using Alignment Grid View
46 - Edit alignments using component level editing
47 - Apply an alignment design check set
48 - Apply an alignment design criteria file

6. Displaying and Annotating Alignments

49 - Apply alignment styles
50 - Apply labels to alignments
51 - Leverage alignment label sets
52 - Edit alignment labels
53 - Create station offset labels
54 - Create alignment segment labels
55 - Create alignment tag labels
56 - Create alignment tables

7. Designing Vertically Using Profiles

57 - Understand profiles and profile views
58 - Create a surface profile
59 - Create a profile view
60 - Design a profile
61 - Edit a profile with grips
62 - Edit a profile using the Profile Layout Tools
63 - Edit a profile using Profile Grid View
64 - Edit a profile using component level editing
65 - Apply a profile design check set
66 - Apply a profile design criteria file

8. Displaying and Annotating Profiles

67 - Apply profile styles
68 - Apply profile view styles
69 - Apply profile view bands
70 - Apply profile labels
71 - Apply profile label sets
72 - Apply profile view labels
73 - Project objects to profile view

9. Designing Roads Using Corridors

74 - Understand corridors
75 - Create an assembly
76 - Create a corridor
77 - Apply targeting subassemblies
78 - Assign subassembly targets
79 - Create a corridor surface

10. Creating Cross Sections

80 - Understand sections
81 - Use the Section Editor
82 - Create sample lines
83 - Create individual section views
84 - Create multiple section views
85 - Sample more sources for your sections

11. Displaying and Annotating Sections

86 - Apply section styles
87 - Apply section labels
88 - Apply code set styles
89 - Apply labels with code set styles
90 - Apply section view styles
91 - Apply section view bands
92 - Apply group plot styles
93 - Create section view labels

12. Working with Parcels

94 - Understand parcels
95 - Create parcels from objects
96 - Create parcels using the lot line tools
97 - Create parcels using the Parcel Sizing Tools
98 - Create multiple parcels
99 - Edit parcels with grips
100 - Edit parcels with the edit geometry commands
101 - Edit parcels with the parcel layout tools

13. Displaying and Annotating Parcels

102 - Apply parcel styles
103 - Control parcel style display order
104 - Apply parcel area labels
105 - Label parcel segments
106 - Apply parcel segment label styles
107 - Edit parcel segment labels graphically
108 - Create a parcel area table
109 - Create a parcel segment table

14. Designing Gravity Pipe Networks

110 - Understand gravity networks
111 - Create a gravity network from objects
112 - Create a gravity network by layout
113 - Draw a gravity network in profile view
114 - Edit a gravity network using grips
115 - Edit a gravity network using the editing tools
116 - Edit a gravity network using properties
117 - Edit a gravity network using the Pipe Network Vistas

15. Designing Pressure Pipe Networks

118 - Understand pressure networks
119 - Create a pressure network from objects
120 - Create a pressure network by layout
121 - Edit a pressure network using grips
122 - Check pressure network design and depth
123 - Use the pressure network Plan Layout tools
124 - Use the pressure network profile Layout tools

16. Displaying and Annotating Pipe Networks

125 - Control the display of structures
126 - Control the display of pipes
127 - Rename pipes and structures
128 - Create and edit plan view labels
129 - Create and edit profile view labels
130 - Create a pipe network table

17. Grading - Designing New Terrain

131 - Understand grading
132 - Understand feature lines
133 - Create feature lines
134 - Edit feature lines with geometry commands
135 - Edit feature lines with elevation commands
136 - Understanding grading objects
137 - Create grading objects
138 - Edit grading objects
139 - Introduction to grading optimization

18. Creating Cross Sections

140 - Combine surfaces
141 - Analyze surfaces
142 - Analyze hydrology
143 - Analyze using a quick profile
144 - Analyze earthwork
145 - Label a design surface