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• Grade Parking Features

  Grade Parking Features using a Setup Surface
  (Course Duration: 25 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to leverage a setup surface to grade parking features. Setup surfaces are auxiliary surfaces used to aid in the grading of proposed design features. They can be used in a variety of grading applications, including to elevate feature lines and perform interactive edits. This course will use a setup surface to establish a grading plane for a parking design. The setup surface will be created from a single feature and gradings, then be used to elevate the proposed design features. This is just one basic example of how a setup surface can be leveraged in your Civil 3D projects.

  Course Objectives
  The material presented in this course teach you how to:
  Create a setup surface for a planar grading design
  Elevate and associate grading features to a surface
  Add breaklines to surface using supplementing factors
  Smooth surface to create more natural looking contours
  Refine proposed grading using a setup surface

  Course Prerequisites
  To participate in this training course, you should have the following:
  Fundamental knowledge of grading objects in Civil 3D

  CPD via CPD UK Accredited Course
  This course is eligible for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit via CPD UK. This is a globally recognized CPD meaning the learning activity has reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks. If you would like to learn more, please see CPDUK. You can log your CPD credits by creating an account and providing the correct, required information. If you would like to log your CPD credits with another organization, you will need to navigate that process as directed by the target organization.

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• Grade Planar Culdesac

  Grade Planar Culdesac Course Introduction
  (Course Duration: 35 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to leverage a setup surface to grade a planar culdesac design. Setup surfaces are auxiliary surfaces used to aid in the grading of proposed design features. They can be used in a variety of grading applications, including to elevate feature lines and perform interactive edits. This course will use a setup surface to establish a grading plane for a culdesac. The setup surface will be created from a single feature and grading, then will be used to elevate the proposed design features. This is just one basic example of how a setup surface can be leveraged in your Civil 3D projects.

  Course Objectives
  The material presented in this course teach you how to:
  Create grading features to establish a planar setup surface
  Leverage Setup Surfaces to create proposed grading
  Incorporate culdesac grading into a corridor model
  Transition pavement grades between corridor regions
  Assign corridor targets to override width and elevation parameters
  Interactively edit culdesac grades in final corridor model

  Course Prerequisites
  To participate in this training course, you should have the following:
  Fundamental knowledge about Feature Line and Corridor modeling in Civil 3D.

  CPD via CPD UK Accredited Course
  This course is eligible for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit via CPD UK. This is a globally recognized CPD meaning the learning activity has reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks. If you would like to learn more, please see CPDUK. You can log your CPD credits by creating an account and providing the correct, required information. If you would like to log your CPD credits with another organization, you will need to navigate that process as directed by the target organization.

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• Grade Superelevated Intersection

  Grade Superelevated Intersection Course Introduction
  (Course Duration: 30 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to grade a superelevated intersection. Superelevated intersections can present a grading challenge in Civil 3D as the pavement cross slope varies through the intersection. To accurately grade an intersection, where one or both of the intersecting roads have a non-standard” cross grade, you will need to use offset and/or elevation targets to override the default offsets and/or cross slopes. To create these targeting features, and maintain a dynamic intersection model, you can use a setup surface. The grading example presented in this course addresses a T-intersection, where only the primary road is being superelevated. The same grading principles can be applied to 4-way intersections, where both roads have non-standard cross grades.

  Course Objectives
  The material presented in this course teach you how to:
  Create a setup surface for a superelevated road
  Establish offset alignments that are bound to a centerline alignment
  Establish surface profiles that are bound a setup surface
  Create an intersection object using existing offset alignments and lane slope profiles
  Create a corridor surface using links and feature lines
  Edit the design speed and recalculate superelevation for an alignment
  Update the intersection model after editing superelevation

  Course Prerequisites
  To participate in this training course, you should have the following:
  Fundamental experience working with alignments, profiles, and corridor models.
  Fundamental experience working with Intersection objects.

  CPD via CPD UK Accredited Course
  This course is eligible for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit via CPD UK. This is a globally recognized CPD meaning the learning activity has reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks. If you would like to learn more, please see CPDUK. You can log your CPD credits by creating an account and providing the correct, required information. If you would like to log your CPD credits with another organization, you will need to navigate that process as directed by the target organization.

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