Hello guys, welcome to our YouTube channel. So in this video, we will see how we can design a road from scratch to the end, where we will be able to calculate all the earth quantities and display a report.
Okay, so here I have data from a section of a road, which is in PENZD format. We have already discussed this in a previous tutorial, which was in two parts. The link will be in the description below where you can go and check it so that you won't have any issues importing your data to Civil 3D. So the data is already formed. In this video, I will just go through each step that we need to go through to design a road successfully. The details for the design will be discussed in future tutorials, where I will not only explain the core concepts and the design checks that we need to perform in order to comply with the design standards, but also show you how to customize the surfaces, point, profile files, sections, everything, and how we can plot it ultimately and make it look good. So without much ado, let's go ahead with importing the points. So let's copy the data. I have. I will copy this data. I prefer a text file to create a text file and import. So I will go to my tutorial folder and create a text file. I will call this the tutorial data. Okay, and open this and paste the data. Okay, I pasted the data and then we say save it. Okay, okay, let's close this one. So here we have the data and I will copy the location of the file. So just copy this. Click here and copy it. I have shown this earlier. So copy it and let's open Civil 3D. Okay, so once you have opened your Civil 3D, let's go ahead and create a new drawing file from the default using default template. So you say go to this icon and say new and it will ask you to choose templates. I have my own templates and other templates as well here. Later, we will see how to develop our own templates also. So I will choose a metric default template that is with the Civil 3D installation and hit open. Once your drawing is open, now it's time to import the data. So go to the tool space and in the prospector tab, you can see the points. So right click and click on import. Create and here we're importing points from a file. So we will click on this icon here and then it will pop up a window where it asks you to import the file. Select the file. So you just click on this plus icon and actually this opens to the file folder. If you haven't set up this location, then you can just put the link that we copied earlier. So we say Ctrl+V and you have the link here. You say open and it opens to that location where your data is. So just click the data, select the data and say open. And now we select our format. So as we remember, our file format is PENZD. Like as you see, P-E-N-Z-D. So we will select PENZD. Okay, and here you have selected this and said okay. Keep everything else default and say okay. Okay, so once this command disappears, you should know that your data has been imported. Now it's disappeared. So I believe it has been imported. So let's go ahead, but we can't see the data yet, right? So hit Z and hit E to zoom extend so that we can view our data. So here you have our data. Just close this. Okay, now when we zoom to a specific one, we can't see anything yet. Why is that? It's because of the point style. As we have discussed about this in a previous video. So again, go to the tool space and you see all the points are here in the point groups options. So right click and set properties. And from here, in the point style, you say it's basic. So this cross appears because of that. And point level styles, it's none. So you can select depending upon that. So mostly we need the elevations here only for descriptions you will need when you have a different kind of features on that line. But for this tutorial, we will be focused on the ground. Whatever features that might be, all of them, almost all of them, form your terrain, you know, that where you design your road. So I will just keep the elevations only and say apply. So that our elevation is displayed. You see all the elevations have been displayed. The customization to these were discussed in the previous tutorial. You can view the link in the description. Okay, so now what we can do is, so now we have the points, the next step is to create a surface. This is actually in the logical order. So here you go to the surfaces, right click and just create surface. So this will ask you to create a tin surface. You just keep everything. You can even edit the name if you want from here. Just edit your name. I will say tutorial surface and say okay. But we can't see anything yet here. You will see a small icon, the plus icon has appeared and the surface has been created under surfaces. But the surface is not yet complete. We need to add the data here. No points data has been added yet. So go to the point group option and say right click and add. Click on add and you add the all points. Okay, and say okay. Now your point has been created. Once you click on the model space, your points with the surface will create a surface and the contours will be displayed. The styles again can be adjusted. You can go to the tool space and right click on the surface and go to the surface properties. Then you will have the options how you want to display your points. I will just keep it default for now. We are just going through the steps in this tutorial. So the more details will be displayed. I will talk about more details in later tutorials. Okay, so our surface is done. Now the next step is to create an alignment. You know, we can create an alignment from here to here or wherever you want. Okay, so let's go ahead and create an alignment. So click on alignment to alignment option in create design ribbon on the home tab. Okay, so alignment creation tools and you can name this alignment as well. I will name it as tutorial alignment and for site, just keep none and a style should be proposed or anything you want. And I will just display major and minor CUs. All levels will make it CL. Okay, and say okay. So when you are creating style, these will serve as issue because once you need to just turn off your snap so that we are not snapping to any points. It will be slow and it will create problems for us as for this demonstration purpose. We'll just choose there are different methods to create an alignment. We'll just do tangent with curves. So that it automatically adds curves. Okay, so I will start from here and I will just say okay go here say here here okay just adding curves and just making it better. Just snap and then okay just keep going and here okay and hit enter once you are done. Now as you are done, you know the alignment has been created. So let's hide these points so that we can see better and just say hide. Now you have your alignment here. Okay, so now our alignment has been created. The next step is to create a profile. Now the profile will be vertical profile. So go to create profile vertical in the design ribbon. Click on create profile here. The next thing is to select the alignment. So we will select our alignment from here. It's asking for a name and I will say tutorial profile. Click okay. Okay, once you have clicked okay, your profile has been created here. But again, we can't see anything yet. So you need to hit view and say view data shortcut is V and then click on profile. Now you have your profile. So this is your profile which is a vertical profile here. So you see it's flat because we haven't added any data here yet. So our profile has been created and the final step is to create sections. So to create sections, go to create design ribbon and create sections here. Click on create sections and it asks you to choose a sample line group. So we will create a sample line group. We have to create a sample line group. So go to here and say create a sample line group. You can name it whatever you want. I will say tutorial sections and here the source data, we will select alignment because we want to create the sections based on the alignment. Click okay and say okay again. Okay, once you have created the sample line group, now you can select this. Click okay and say okay. Now your sample line group has been created. Okay, so here we have it. Once the sample lines are created, you will need to say draw. You need to draw the sections. You need to place the sections. So go to here and say draw sections and you have the options. What kind of sections do you want to draw? I will just choose full sections here. Keep the depth zero and here we are. Our sections are drawn. You can view the sections from here. You see all the sections have been drawn. So these are the steps that we need to go through. First we need to import the points. Then we create a surface. Then we create alignment. Then we create a profile and then we create sections. So these are the steps that we need to go through. So that's all for this tutorial. In future tutorials, I will go through each step in more detail and talk about the design standards, how we can comply with the design standards and how we can make our design look good. Thank you for watching. I hope you find it helpful. Please like, share and subscribe to our channel. Thank you. Bye.
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