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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.

   

  Tips:

  · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

  · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

  · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

   

   

• 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.

   

  Tips:

  · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

  · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

  · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

   

• 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.

   

  Tips:

  · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

  · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

  · Go Full Screen when watching videos.