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Quick Look Course Summary:AutoCAD Civil 3D Essentials Training (4 days)
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Length: 4 day(s)
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Price (at your venue): 1 Person R 27,608 EX VAT 3 Person R 17,840 EX VAT 10 Person R 11,835 EX VAT
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Certification Type:Non-Accredited
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Locations & Venues: Off-site or in-house. We train in all major city centres throughout South Africa.
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Essentials Training (4 days)
Your civil design team builds surfaces, roads and pipe networks as one connected model, so a design change updates the drawings, volumes and quantities automatically.
Civil engineering teams that use Civil 3D like plain AutoCAD lose most of its value. Surfaces are drawn as contours, levels are worked out by hand, and every design change means redrawing profiles, sections and quantity tables. This Civil 3D training shows engineers, technologists and draughtspersons how to work in a dynamic model, where survey data, surfaces, alignments, corridors and pipe networks stay linked.
Over four days delegates follow the workflow of a typical civil project. They import survey points and build and analyse an existing-ground surface, lay out parcels for a township or site development, and grade new terrain with feature lines and earthworks volumes. They design horizontal and vertical alignments, build a road corridor, and calculate cut-and-fill quantities from cross-sections. The final day covers gravity stormwater and sewer networks, pressure water networks and producing plan and profile sheets for issue.
Exercises use realistic road, township and services projects, and the facilitator can work with your company templates and South African co-ordinate settings.
Why this course
For your organisation
- Design changes that update drawings, volumes and quantities automatically
- More reliable earthworks and quantity figures for tenders and claims
- Consistent drawing output through shared styles and templates
- Less redrafting between design revisions
For your delegates
- A complete Civil 3D workflow, from survey data to issued sheets
- Confidence with surfaces, alignments, profiles and corridors
- Pipe network design and checking for stormwater, sewer and water
- Practice on realistic civil projects
What delegates will be able to do
- Navigate the Civil 3D interface, Toolspace and Panorama, and control how objects look with styles
- Import survey data, manage points and point groups, and use description keys
- Build, edit, label and analyse terrain surfaces
- Create and edit parcels and parcel tables for land development
- Grade new terrain with feature lines and calculate earthworks volumes
- Design and label horizontal and vertical alignments to set design criteria
- Build a road corridor from assemblies and check it
- Produce sample lines, cross-sections and cut-and-fill quantities
- Design and analyse gravity and pressure pipe networks
- Create plan and profile sheets with view frames and sheet sets
Who should attend
Civil engineers, technologists and technicians, civil draughtspersons, land surveyors and survey technicians, and municipal and consulting engineering staff who design roads, earthworks, townships and services. Delegates should be comfortable with core AutoCAD drafting – AutoCAD Essentials (2D) (3 days) or equivalent experience.
Course outline
Day 1 – Interface, styles, survey points and surfaces
Finding your way round Civil 3D
- Setting up the drawing environment and drawing settings
- The ribbon, tabs and panels
- Toolspace, Panorama and the Properties palette
- How Civil 3D objects stay linked in a dynamic model
- Setting the drawing co-ordinate system, including South African Lo zones
- File types you will meet on civil projects
Styles
- Object styles and label styles
- Point and surface styles
- Why styles keep company drawings consistent
- One model, many views: styles and BIM
Survey points and point groups
- Importing survey and COGO points from field files
- Point settings and creating points
- Organising points into groups
- Description keys for automatic layers and symbols
- Point labels and point reports
Building and analysing surfaces
- How a surface is built and rebuilt
- TIN, grid and volume surfaces
- Adding points, breaklines and boundaries
- Editing a surface definition
- Contours, labels, and slope and elevation analysis
Day 2 – Parcels, grading and road alignments
Land development with parcels
- Creating parcels with the layout tools and from AutoCAD objects
- Editing and renumbering parcels
- Parcel labels, areas and tables
Grading new terrain
- Feature lines and their design criteria
- Grading groups, sites and criteria
- Building a finished-ground surface and combining surfaces
- Calculating earthworks volumes
Horizontal alignments
- Creating alignments from tools and from objects
- Applying design criteria and design speeds
- Editing alignment geometry
- Stationing and alignment labels
Vertical design with profiles
- Existing-ground profiles and profile views
- Laying out and editing a design profile
- Checking profiles against design criteria
- Profile labels and data bands
Day 3 – Corridors, cross-sections and quantities
Corridor design
- Building road cross-section assemblies from subassemblies
- Corridor baselines, regions and targets
- Lane widening and offset parameters
- Corridor surfaces
- Checking the design with a visual drive-through
- Introduction to intersections
Cross-sections
- Sample lines and sampling frequency
- Single and multiple section views
- Editing sections in the section editor
Quantities and earthworks
- Setting up quantity take-off criteria
- Applying bulking and compaction factors to cut and fill
- Volume tables and section data reports
- Using the quantities in estimates and tender documents
Day 4 – Pipe networks and production drawings
Gravity pipe networks
- Parts catalogues and parts lists
- Network rules and design considerations
- Creating and editing a stormwater or sewer network
- Catchment areas and surface runoff
- Showing networks in plan and profile
- Analysing and labelling the network
Pressure pipe networks
- Pressure network parts and catalogues
- Laying out and editing a water main
- Running design checks
Production drafting
- Plan production tools and view frames
- Editing plan production objects
- Creating plan and profile sheets
- Sheet sets and sheet properties
Working on team projects
- Sharing design data between drawings with data shortcuts
- Keeping references up to date
- Course review and questions on delegates' own projects
How it is delivered
Four days, 08:30-16:00. Training runs on your licensed Autodesk software at your offices (or on licensed machines you provide); it can also run live online when every delegate has a licensed copy. One delegate or a group of up to 20. Each delegate receives a training guide and project datasets. We deliver it at your offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and anywhere else in South Africa, at a BOTI venue in Johannesburg, or live online for teams in different places.
AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and Civil 3D are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. BOTI is an independent training provider.
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Frequently asked questions
Do delegates need AutoCAD experience first?
Yes. Civil 3D runs on top of AutoCAD, so delegates should already draw and edit confidently in 2D. New users should complete AutoCAD Essentials (2D) (3 days) first.
Do we need our own Civil 3D licences?
Yes. Training runs on your licensed Autodesk software at your offices, or on licensed machines you provide. We train one delegate or a group of up to 20.
Is this an Autodesk qualification?
No. Delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance, and this is a non-accredited short course. BOTI is an independent training provider, not an Autodesk training centre. Autodesk runs its own Certified Professional exam for Civil 3D, which delegates can book themselves through Pearson VUE.
Can you use our templates and project data?
Yes. Send us your company template and a sample project beforehand, and the facilitator builds the exercises around them, including your co-ordinate system settings.
Can you run the training on site anywhere in South Africa?
Yes. The facilitator comes to your offices anywhere in South Africa, as long as delegates have licensed Civil 3D on their machines.
Can you run this course in Johannesburg, Cape Town or Durban?
Yes. We train on site at your offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and across South Africa, at a BOTI venue in Johannesburg, or live online so a team spread over several offices can attend together.
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