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Residential Grading

This course focuses on using Civil 3D for grading design projects. The class will cover how Civil 3D can be used as a tool in the grading solution to perform common engineering tasks more accurately and efficiently. A good understanding of the fundamentals of Civil 3D and experience using the product is highly recommended.

Below is a chapter-by-chapter listing of the topics covered in the
Residential Grading Class.

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1. Examining Site Conditions
- Examining Existing Site Conditions
- Determining Slope and Flow Patterns
- Labeling Elevations at Key Locations
- Defining the Limits of Grading Activity

2. Creating Detention Basins
- Creating, Grading, and Analyzing Detention Basins
- Creating Detention Basins
- Grading Detention Basins
- Analyzing Detention Basin Earthwork Volumes

3. Designing Roadway Grading
- Designing Prefinal Roadway Grading
- Creating an Existing Ground Profile
- Creating a Finished Ground Profile
- Defining Roadway Cross Sections
- Creating a Road Surface Model

4. Working with Earthwork Volumes
- Calculating Prefinal Earthwork Volumes
- Refining the Corridor Model and Knuckle Design
- Creating Prefinal Earthwork Calculation Surfaces
- Adjusting the Corridor Model
- Calculating Earthwork Volumes

5. Balancing Earthwork
- Balancing Earthwork
- Refining the Final Grading Design
- Modifying Basin Grading

6. Refining Surface Grading
- Refining Final Surface Grading
- Setting Spot Elevation Labels
- Adjusting the Corridor Surface Model
- Establishing Lot Grade and Top of Foundation Elevations
- Grading Rear Lot Lines

7. Creating and Grading Swales
- Grading Rear Yard Perimeter Swale
- Analyzing Prefinal Surface Flow Patterns
- Creating a Pad Buffer
- Creating a Swale

8. Grading Open Areas
- Grading Open Areas
- Designing a Detention Basin Overflow Route
- Creating Berms
- Adding Berms to the Proposed Top Surface

9. Revising the Design
- Revising the Grading Design
- Modifying the Proposed Road Profile
- Updating Lot Grading

10. Rendering the Design
- Rendering the Design
- Analyzing the Slope
- Viewing Surfaces in 3D

11. Completing the Plans
- Labeling and Annotating the Plan and Profile
- Labeling Contours
- Creating Profile Sheets

 


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