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Today we will see civil 3d software from the beginning to plan profile and cross section print stage

It is useful for beginners but it contains a lot of details

Let’s start part one and we will finish this full tutorial in 6 parts

This is a new YouTube channel and we will see all civil engineering software especially for road
construction please

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Let’s start from the beginning

Open new civil 3d

Inside prospector right click on surface

Create surface

You can give any name but if you have different surfaces you have to remember it

Leave the others as it is because we will change it

Add your csv comma delimited existing ground data

Please use specify point file format mach with your surveyor data

Add all points to point groups

As you have seen it civil 3d automatically create the surface

But the border is not good

You can make it closer to the point by fixing the maximum triangle length

It is good now

And now we will change our contour type by creating our surface style

These are civil 3d defaults but I will create my own

Give any name and make your own style as per the video
I will change only minor and major contour style but you can change others

Its line type is dashed and please uses small number line weight

Change your minor contour interval to 1

Make it true smooth contours and increase contour smoothing to make our contour lines smooth

Let’s go to our horizontal alignment

Now we will see 2 methods how to make our horizontal alignment

First we will be see alignment creation tools

Give your alignment name

It’s center line

Leave the others as it is because we will change it

Draw your alignment by using tangent tangent with curves

You can change any data here

If you give wrong number civil 3d automatically block it

This is one advantage of civil 3d

This is one method of how to make horizontal alignment

Let’s delete it and see the other method

I will make 1 short video how to create best fit alignment but now we will see create alignment from
objects especially for contractors

I think you known it

Simply draw a polyline and paste it here

Now we will create our horizontal alignment using create alignment from objects

Please check the alignment direction if it not the right direction we can reverse it

Give your alignment name

It’s center line

Leave the others as it is because we will change it

To change your alignment geometry

Right click on alignment and select edit alignment geometry

To check your alignment please makes points visible

You can also adjust your alignment simply by dragging the point of intersection

Now let’s add our surface label for our surface

Simple AutoCAD offset alignment

Our surface label will locate on intersection points between our contours and these lines

Select your surface and add surface label

Select contour multiple

For first time let’s check for both minor and major contours

Add and select our offset poly line

As you have seen it our surface label displayed but too many numbers therefore we will label only major
contours

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Please undo and use only major contours

Change our label style

Select it and change your font style and color

Please decrease precision and text height for don’t disturb others

Sorry the precision is not changed and also decrease our text height

go back and change it

Yes it changed now and you can choose you interest

Now we will start creating our horizontal alignment style

For the time being we will invisible our surface to see our alignment clearly

we will visible it after finishing

select our alignment and right click

select alignment properties

These are civil 3d defaults I will create my own

Create new and give your name first

For markers I only change point of intersection

You can choose basic triangle from the lists and modify it

Change the color and small line weight

Go to display

For line curve and spiral create a new layer

Mostly the color is red but you can use any color

The line weight at least greater than others

Again you can change for extensions

Now we will create alignment labels

Select our alignment and right click on it and select edit alignment labels

First we will create major stations

You can use civil 3d default but I will create my new label style

Create new and give the name

When you come to the general there is no enough alternatives for our text style so we will create ours

Go back by clicking ok

Come to annotate and create your own new text style

And now come to the previous alignment labels

Find your label style and edit

When we come to text style we can choose our new text style

Flip anchors with text must be true

Go to layout and delete the existing data

First we will make line style

I gave 8 for length and 90 degree for rotation angle

Apply and next we will label our text

Give any name

Its anchor component is our new line

Its anchor is end

We can give 2 for text height and we can change it if it is not suitable when we see it on our a 3 print in
next video

After finishing it please add it

And mostly for plan profile view the increment is 100 meter

For minor stations you can use civil 3d default because it is simple line

Let’s again make our geometry points

We will create a new one

Give its name and our text style will be our another new text style

Zero offset

If you need border you can

But I don’t need it

If you need block you can add

Mostly it is tick circle

It is good then we will save it to use for other projects

If you want to change the line color go and import you saved alignment label set and change it

You see it has changed

The remaining is our alignment label

Select the alignment and go to add label

Choose multiple point of intersection and create new

Give its name

At this point you have to decide which properties to display on your print

I choose the next

Make similar precision with easting

Change it to degree minute second

I think it is enough for point of intersection

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now come to curve and spiral text

it is enough for my curve but you can add

come to spiral

again it is enough for my spiral but you can add

change the direction of 3 to one side

I don’t need the visibility of leader

Finally add it

By the way once you did it you can use it for other projects

Let’s see by creating another alignment

You see it works

It is enough for today in next videos we will see