About this course

A practical, project-based course covering the Civil 3D workflow used for road, site and earthworks design: building surfaces from survey data, designing alignments and profiles, building corridors, and producing volume/earthworks reports.

Ideal for civil engineers and surveyors who already know AutoCAD and want to add infrastructure design capability.

What you'll learn

Build existing-ground surfaces from survey and points data
Design horizontal alignments and vertical profiles
Construct corridors with assemblies and subassemblies
Calculate cut/fill volumes and generate earthworks reports
Produce plan-and-profile sheets for issue
Manage data shortcuts across a multi-drawing project

Curriculum

Day 1 — Points, Surfaces & Survey Data

Importing points, building and editing TIN surfaces.

Day 2 — Alignments & Profiles

Horizontal alignments, profile views and design profiles.

Day 3 — Corridors

Assemblies, subassemblies and corridor modelling.

Day 4 — Earthworks & Volumes

Grading, sections, and cut/fill volume reporting.

Day 5 — Sheets & Project Workflow

Plan-and-profile sheet production and data shortcuts.

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of AutoCAD is required. Basic surveying/earthworks terminology is helpful but not essential.

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 08:30 to 16:30. Includes a full set of practice datasets and sample drawings to keep after the course.

Your instructor

Frans Auala

Civil engineer and Autodesk Civil 3D trainer with experience on road and municipal infrastructure projects across the region.

Civil 3D for Infrastructure Design