Civil 3D Autodesk Essentials

To teach the student the basic commands necessary for professional 3D drawing, design, and drafting using Civil 3D.

• Venue: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
• Date: October 28th to 30th, 2009
  
• Session time: TBC
  
• Fee: Engineers Ireland Members: €850   Non-Members: €950
• CPD credits: 3

Overview

This hands-on foundation-level course covers the essentials of Autodesk Civil 3D. Students learn how to work with point data in Autodesk Civil 3D, how to create and analyze a surface, how to develop a site, how to model roads, corridors, and pipe networks, how to work with survey data, and how to import and export data.

Hands-on exercises throughout the courseware explore how to create 2D and 3D production drawings

Learning objectives

The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the concepts and application of the essential functions of Autodesk Civil 3D.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Create points, change point styles, and manage points in groups.
• Create, edit, and analyze surfaces, and view surfaces in 3D.
• Create parcels and parcel tables.
• Create a site, create and edit alignments, and create profiles and cross-sections.
• Create assemblies, corridors, pipe networks, and cross-sections, and calculate corridor volumes.
• Create a grading solution from multiple objects.
• Import Autodesk Land Desktop data and export Autodesk Civil 3D data.
• Import and work with survey data.

Programme

Day 1

• Working with Point Data
• Surface Modeling
• Site Development

Day 2

• Road Design
• Corridor Modeling
• Grading

Day 3

• Pipes
• Data Management
• Survey

Who should attend?

This course is designed to teach new users the essential elements of Autodesk Civil 3D for creating, analyzing, and managing civil engineering drawings and projects. Before starting this course, students should have a working knowledge of AutoCAD.

It is also recommended that the student have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows.

Training Company

Cadco provides ICT training and is an ECDL, City & Guilds, and Certified Authorised Autodesk Training Centre. With 18 years' experience in the design and delivery of public and bespoke training programmes, our expertise enables us to deliver winning business strategies for our clients. We have a proven track record of implementing IT training programs, thus improving IT skills within an organisation.

We deliver training to a range of sectors, including the pharmaceutical, beverage, engineering, architectural, manufacturing, construction, food, healthcare, and insurance industries, and government organisations.

Cadco is the sole distributor for Autodesk products in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. We also provide project costing software (Exactal's CostX), drafting services, design visualisation services, and CAD consultancy.

Trainer's Profile

Philip Kelly has over 8 years experience in both the private and public sectors using various forms of Autodesk products in a GIS, Mapping and Design capacity. As a corporate trainer, Philip is responsible for providing training in AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D and 3DS Max.

Contact CPD Training

• Phone: +353 1 6651305
• Email: cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie