From the course: Civil 3D: Basic Roadway Design
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Drawing an alignment from scratch - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: Civil 3D: Basic Roadway Design
Drawing an alignment from scratch
Civil 3D provides specialized tools for creating alignments. In this lesson, you'll learn how to create an alignment from scratch. Meaning that you don't have or want to use geometry that may already exist in your drawing. Let's get started. You'll create most alignments using the Alignment Creation Tools command. That's found on the Home Ribbon tab on the Alignment menu at the very top. When you launch this command you're creating a new alignment, so you have to fill out kind of a form to tell Civil 3D what it needs to know about this new alignment. The first thing you'll need to tell it is a name. And I'm going to name this alignment after the road that it represents, Shady Ridge Lane. There are different types of alignments as you can see here. Centerline happens to be the right choice in this case. If you want, you can provide a description for your alignment to help you maybe know later on, what it was intended for. For this particular alignment, we don't need to assign a site to…
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