Civil 3D for Infrastructure Design Professional Certification Prep

Course overview

Get skills used by industry professionals, by learning certification exam topics such as points, parcels, surveying, surfaces and grading, alignments and profiles, corridors and sections, pipe networks, and plan production and data management. Follow along with lessons, datasets, and exercises to practice and review the exam topics on your own. You can also test your knowledge by taking a practice test to prepare for the certification exam. It’s all about practice and preparation.

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

Work with points and point groups, parcels, surveying tools, surfaces, alignments, and profiles.
Create corridors, sections, pipe, and pressure networks.
Use workflows for plan production, such as creating note label styles, view frames and sheets, and data shortcuts.
Review the topics covered on the Autodesk Certified Professional in Civil 3D for Infrastructure Design exam.

Course outline

10 min.

Getting started

Module outline

Discover what you'll learn in this course and download the software and resources you need.

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20 min.

See where you stand

Module outline

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand.

Pre-test

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1 hr. 10 min.

Points, parcels, and surveying, Part 1

Learn to use the Autodesk Civil 3D Survey tab to define and manage survey data such as point, setups, directions, traverses, and figures.

Module outline

Points in Civil 3D are called Coordinate Geometry, or COGO points. In addition to containing coordinate data, COGO points have a variety of properties associated with them, including point number, point name, raw (field) description, and full (expanded) description.

A survey point is a COGO point that is created by the Survey feature. You use the Autodesk Civil 3D Survey tab to define and manage survey data such as point, setups, directions, traverses, and figures.

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Create and modify points and point display settings
Manage points with point groups
Create, modify, and label parcels
Utilize survey settings to import data

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55 min.

Points, parcels, and surveying, Part 2

Learn to use the Autodesk Civil 3D Survey tab to define and manage survey data such as point, setups, directions, traverses, and figures.

Module outline

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Create and modify points and point display settings
Manage points with point groups
Create, modify, and label parcels
Utilize survey settings to import data

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55 min.

Surfaces and grading, Part 1

Creating and modifying sites and grading models are key aspects of a civil engineering project.

Module outline

When working in Civil 3D, you use various surfaces and feature lines to define the drawing, as well as perform a surface analysis. Creating and modifying sites and grading models are also key aspects of a civil engineering project.

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Create, display, analyze, and label surfaces
Understand the key characteristics of surfaces
Use data and understand its role in surface creation
Use parameters to control the displace settings of a surface
Use feature lines and grading groups to modify existing surfaces

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1 hr. 45 min.

Surfaces and grading, Part 2

Creating and modifying sites and grading models are key aspects of a civil engineering project.

Module outline

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Create, display, analyze, and label surfaces
Understand the key characteristics of surfaces
Use data and understand its role in surface creation
Use parameters to control the displace settings of a surface
Use feature lines and grading groups to modify existing surfaces

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1 hr. 5 min.

Alignments and profiles, Part 1

Alignment objects can represent road centerlines, pipe networks, and other construction baselines.

Module outline

Alignment objects can represent road centerlines, pipe networks, and other construction baselines. One of the first steps in roadway, railroad, or site design is to create a horizontal alignment, and then use profiles to show surface elevations along the alignment.

After completing this module, you will learn how to:

Create alignments with/without curves, add lines, curves and spirals
Create an alignment from a pipe network
Work with surface profiles
Create and modify a profile
Build alignment and profile label types
Work with alignment and profile labels, and alignment tables

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55 min.

Alignments and profiles, Part 2

Alignment objects can represent road centerlines, pipe networks, and other construction baselines.

Module outline

After completing this module, you will learn how to:

Create alignments with/without curves, add lines, curves and spirals
Create an alignment from a pipe network
Work with surface profiles
Create and modify a profile
Build alignment and profile label types
Work with alignment and profile labels, and alignment tables

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1 hr. 15 min.

Corridors and sections

Create sections and inspect how assemblies are applied at various stations.

Module outline

Use corridor modeling in Civil 3D to create flexible and configurable 3D models of corridors, such as roads, highways, and railways. Create sections and inspect how assemblies are applied at various stations.

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Create a multiple baseline corridor
Clear corridor bowties
Update corridors
Create sample lines and edit sample line group properties
Create section views and sheets and use them for quantity take-offs

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1 hr.

Pipe and pressure networks

Learn how to create a parts list and work with the pipe pressure network part catalogs included in Civil 3D.

Module outline

Use the pipe network features in Civil 3D to draw 2D and 3D models of utility systems, such as storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and more. The workflow for creating pressure networks is similar but there are a few differences and this section covers both workflows. You’ll also learn how to create a parts list and work with the pipe network and pressure network part catalogs that come with Civil 3D.

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Set up the part catalog and parts list for pipe networks and pressure networks
Create, modify, and annotate pipe networks
Choose pipe network flow direction
Create pressure networks and add plan and profile view labels

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1 hr. 50 min.

Plan production and data management

Learn the workflows and processes for managing your data and executing on your projects.

Module outline

Quickly create construction documents from drawings using the Plan Production tools in Civil 3D. In this section, you’ll learn the workflows and processes for managing your data and executing on your projects.

After completing this module, you'll learn how to:

Create view frames
Create sheets from a view frame group
Differentiate between a data shortcut and external reference
Manage data shortcuts
Create a reference to a data shortcut

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30 min.

Course challenge exercise

Module outline

Now that you’ve completed the learning material in this course, you can take the challenge exercise to measure your skills on the topics covered in this course.