The new Essentials series from Sybex helps you quickly learn and use Autodesk software. This beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of Civil 3D and teaches everything readers need to design in a dynamic environment quickly and successfully. As readers design a residential subdivision, they'll learn how to import field-gathered survey data, design in 2D and 3D, add boundaries and pipe networks, design roads using alignments, profiles, and corridors, create construction documents, and much more.

The four-color Essentials book features real-world tutorials, downloadable before-and-after exercise files, and additional suggested exercises. In addition, this book is a recommended Certification Preparation study guide resource for the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Associate and Professional exams.

• Covers Civil 3D fundamentals, so you become quickly productive with the software
• Prepares you for the AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Associate and Certified Professional exams
• Uses straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to teach the software's core features and functions
• Gives you the skills you'll need throughout a production pipeline, from design to construction, whether you're a beginner or a more experienced user brushing up on the basics

Get quickly up to speed on AutoCAD Civil 3D with AutoCAD Civil 3D Essentials.

• Navigating the Civil 3D User Interface.
• Leveraging a Dynamic Environment.
• Establishing Existing Conditions Using Survey Data.
• Modeling the Existing Terrain Using Surfaces.
• Designing in 2D Using Alignments.
• Displaying and Annotating Alignments.
• Designing Vertically Using Profiles.
• Displaying and Annotating Profiles.
• Designing in 3D Using Corridors.
• Creating Cross Sections of the Design.
• Displaying and Annotating Cross Sections.
• Designing and Analyzing Boundaries using Parcels.
• Displaying and Annotating Parcels.
• Designing and Analyzing Pipe Networks.
• Displaying and Annotating Pipe Networks.
• Designing New Terrain.
• Analyzing, Displaying, and Annotating Surfaces.
• From Design to Construction.