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Creating an assembly

Creating an assembly - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating an assembly

Before you can complete your road design you must creat an assembly representing the cross sectional design of your road. In this video you will learn how to create an assembly for a typical residential road application. I'll start by launching the create assembly command, by opening the assembly menu on the home tab of the ribbon, and clicking create assembly. Because I'm creating a new Civil 3D object, I need to provide some information about that object. Starting with a name. Which I'll call this, residential road. I can provide a description for this object. Choose a style, actually two different types of styles affect assemblies. But for now, this is all good, and I'll just click OK. The next task that I need to complete is to choose a location to insert my assembly baseline. going to find some open space in the drawing, and click a spot. Civil 3D will automatically zoom in to this location. And the reason it does is because the assembly base line is a very small object. If I…

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