Organizing Sites for Site Grading in Civil 3D | Using Relative Feature Lines for Parking Lot Grading

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0:00 Intro
3:21 Organizing Buildings, Parking Lots & Pond Site Components Into Individual Sites
5:40 How to Determine a Grading Drainage Pattern
6:39 Create a Generic Existing Grade Surface
7:50 Create a Feature Line within a New Existing Site
10:00 How to Organize Sites Better in Toolspace
11:08 Setting a Preliminary Building Finished Floor Elevation
13:25 Naming Feature Lines and Breaklines Helps With Drawing Organization
14:10 Setting a Preliminary Pond Existing Elevation
15:40 Setting Pond Elevation From An Existing Surface
17:05 Using the Stepped Offset Feature Line to Set High Water Level
20:00 Organizing Breaklines
21:00 The Importance of Naming Feature Lines and Breaklines
22:15 Assigning a Drainage Pattern to a Parking Lot with a Parking Lot Grid Site
25:25 Creating Primary Feature Line Style
26:52 How to Use a Parking Lot Grid Efficiently
29:00 Adding a Secondary Feature Line as a Low Point
31:18 Creating Secondary Feature Line Style
32:25 Feature Line Crossing Split Point Resolution by Style
34:30 Insert Points at Crossing Locations
36:10 Draining Away From the Building with Quick Elevation Editor
37:50 Creating a Parking Lot Grid Surface
39:30 How to Create Parking Lot Relative Feature Lines
41:23 Assigning Elevations from Parking Lot Grid Surface
42:00 Crossing Conflicts with Feature Lines in Different Sites
43:18 Insert Points at Crossing Locations
44:08 Temporarily Moving Feature Lines to Site
46:13 Stepped Offset Feature Line for Curb
49:25 Using Grading Elevation Editor to Assign Relative Feature Lines for Curbs
53:25 Adding Curb and Gutter Feature Lines as Breaklines to FG Surface
54:40 Raise and Lower Relative Feature Lines
58:40 Conclusion & Questions

[cesaraugustop]

The main idea of the video was: Be Organized. Thanks a lot for sharing buddy!

[NoWorries-tpyw]

New civil 3d user, and about to take on my first project that's requiring a parking area for RV's and a new road. Your videos helped me create the gravity networks recently for the same project.

[nehemiahstewart]

Well explained. Thanks for your videos!