• Civil 3D

Streamline your design process with Civil 3D Project Explorer

Project Explorer is an environment that allows you to work with and analyze Civil 3D objects in your design file. In this learning path, you learn how to use Project Explorer inside of Civil 3D to streamline your design process. Produce customizable reports and tables for your design objects.


Course overview

Project Explorer is an environment that allows you to work with and analyze Civil 3D objects in your design file. In this learning path, you learn how to use Project Explorer inside of Civil 3D to streamline your design process. Produce customizable reports and tables for your design objects. 

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Civil 3D software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support

Course downloads

These downloadable resources will be used to complete modules in this course:

Course outline

20 min.

Feature Lines in Project Explorer

Welcome to Feature Lines in Project Explorer. Feature lines in Civil 3D provide more flexibility for grade breaks when creating a surface. Using Project Explorer to create and edit feature lines provides more efficient ways to identify and filter feature line objects. This ensures you do not mistakenly modify the wrong object(s) when grading complex sites. In this module, you learn how to create and edit feature lines inside Project Explorer.

Welcome to Feature Lines in Project Explorer. Feature lines in Civil 3D provide more flexibility for grade breaks when creating a surface. Using Project Explorer to create and edit feature lines provides more efficient ways to identify and filter feature line objects. This ensures you do not mistakenly modify the wrong object(s) when grading complex sites. In this module, you learn how to create and edit feature lines inside Project Explorer.

This module takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to: 

  • Create feature lines in Project Explorer 
  • Edit feature lines in Project Explorer  
  • Create grading design in Project Explorer

Module pre-requisites

This module requires user-level knowledge of Civil 3D and is focused on best practices and its industry applications. If you don't have experiences with this product, we recommend you to take foundational training using one of the resources below:


20 min.

Custom Reports in Project Explorer

Welcome to Custom Reports in Project Explorer. In this module, you will learn how to create customizable reports and tables for your design objects and when you should use it. You will organize and package object data using object sets for output to reports and tables.

Welcome to Custom Reports in Project Explorer. In this module, you will learn how to create customizable reports and tables for your design objects and when you should use it. You will organize and package object data using object sets for output to reports and tables.

This module takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to: 

  • Use Project Explorer for reports 
  • Configure Project Explorer for reports 
  • Create reports and tables 

Module pre-requisites

This module requires user-level knowledge of Civil 3D and is focused on best practices and its industry applications. If you don't have experiences with this product, we recommend you to take foundational training using one of the resources below: