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Using stepped offset

Using stepped offset - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Using stepped offset

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- [Narrator] Stepped Offset is one of the handiest feature line commands, and will probably be one of your most used. Let's take a look. I'll start by selecting this feature line which, by the way, I'm showing in plan view on the left and kind of an isometric view on the right. And I'll select it and I'll launch the Stepped Offset command. The first thing it's going to ask me is what's the offset distance? It's very similar to the AutoCAD offset command in some respects. So I'll go ahead and use two as my offset distance. Then it's going to ask me which side, also like the AutoCAD offset command. But then things get very different because, remember, this is a stepped, or a 3D offset, is another way of thinking of this. Not only are we setting the parallel dimensions in the XY plane, but we're also deciding what the elevations are going to be of this new feature line. And we can do it in a number of ways. The first one is grade. So if I use the grade option, I can then supply a grade…

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