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Creating grading objects

Creating grading objects - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating grading objects

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- [Narrator] Now that we understand how Civil 3D uses grading criteria so as to automate the grading, let's go ahead and create some Grading Objects. We're going to open up our exercise here, 13_02_GradingCreate, and we see that existing feature line that we've been working in in chapter 12, and it's located here. We're going to go to the Home ribbon, Create Design panel, and we're going to choose Grading. From there, we're going to open up the Grading Creation Tools. Grading Creation Tools is a toolbar very similar to what we've been working with in so many other facets, alignments, profiles, pipe networks and so forth. As usuall, we work from the left to the right. As we add Grading Objects, the end result of a grading object is a feature line, and so we're grading from a feature line to a feature line, and the grading object of course is just a part of automating that feature line elevation at the end. Now we've talked about how feature lines interact with one another, and really…

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