March 4, 2019
Highway Design EV404
Civil 3D
Dr. Ramez
New Project:
New/ drawing/ plan and profile/
Civil 3D (Metric) Plan and Profile/
ok
Points & Surface:
Home/ surface/ create surface/
ok
In create surface list click ok
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TOOLSPACE/ prospector/ surface/
Definition/ Point Files: right click
on Add
In Add point File list:
• Click + and add the csv
file
• Choose the format
(PENZD space delimited)
• Click ok
Alignment:
Draw polyline to be the
centerline of the road.
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• Home/ Alignment/ create
Alignment from objects
• Select the polyline and click
Enter
In the create Alignment from
objects list:
• Change alignment name (CL)
• Choose the starting station
(0+000)
• Change the default radius
(maybe 30m)
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In Design Criteria
• choose the design speed
• click use criteria based design
• change the max e
• click ok
Add curve info:
• Select the alignment (CL)
• Click add labels
• Click multiple segment
• Enter
Alignment Line Data:
• Select the alignment (CL)
• Click add table
• Add line
• Click No tags selected
• Select all the CL
• Enter
• Click convert all selected label
styles to tag mode
• Ok
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To change design speed in some
stations:
• select the CL
• click Alignment properties
In Alignment properties list:
• click design criteria
• change stations and
prospective speed
• ok
Edit Alignment:
• select CL
• click Geometry Editor
• click alignment grid view
Change the radius to be more
than the suggested minimum
radiuses.
If the radius cannot be changed,
then you must change the speed
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design. (it was chosen 100 km/h
for this project)
Alignment label:
• Select CL
• Add labels
• Add alignment labels
• For label type, choose
multiple segment
• From curve label style click
arrow and choose copy
current selection
• From Layout: choose distance
& Radius under component
name.
• Under Text, click contents
• You can choose any data to
show such as E, N, R, L … etc
• Ok, ok, Add, then choose the
CL
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Superelevation:
• Select CL
• Superelevation
• Calculate/Edit superelevation
• Click calculate superlevation
now
• For Roadway type: choose
undivided crowned
• Lanes: 3.6m width, slope 2%
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• Shoulder control: width 3m;
slope 3%
• Attainment: click
automatically solve overlap
• Click Finish
To check the superelevation:
• Select the CL
• Superelevation
• Create superelevation view
Rate of change must be less than
6% / 30m
Widening:
• Alignment
• Create offset alignment
• Select CL
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From widening criteria (next to
general):
• Choose Add widening around
curves
• widening method: wb.10 (for
example)
• widening apply on: both sides
• ok
Profile:
For HG (existing ground):
• Home/ Profile/ create surface
profile
• Click add
• Click draw in profile view
• Click create profile view
• Click screen to draw
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For FG (finishing ground):
• Home/ Profile/ Profile
creation tools
• Select the profile in screen
(change name to FG)
• Ok
• From profile layout tools
toolbar click Draw Tangents
with curves.
• Click 1st station in the screen
(profile) and choose PVIs
along the EG
• Enter
Edit profile labels:
• Select the FG
• Edit profile labels
• Add (you can add any data
you want)
• ok
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Edit profile style:
• select FG
• click profile properties
• under information, click
under display, you can change
colors
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Hatch fill & cut in profile:
• Select profile in screen
• Profile view properties
• Under Hatch: select cut and
fill areas/ Choose the FG
• Ok
Cross section:
• Home
• Sample lines (under
profile & section views)
• Enter
• Select CL
• Ok
• Click By range of stations..
• You can change increment to
25m
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• Home
• From section views click
create multiple views
• At section placement, choose
Template
• Create views
• Click screen
Create Assembly:
Change scale to 1:100
• Home
• Assembly
• Create Assembly
• Change Name
• Ok
• Click screen
From Toolspace:
Click Tool Palettes
Under Lanes:
Choose LaneSuperelevationAOR
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Change pavement parameters:
Side: left
Width:
Pave1 Depth:
Base Depth:
Sub-base depth:
And click left side of the square in
the screen
Change:
Side: right
Click the right side of the square
Enter
Shoulder:
From Toolspace:
Click Tool Palettes
Under shoulder:
Choose ShoulderExtendAll
• Change Shoulder parameters
for right as shown in this
image.
• Choose corners
• Enter
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For cut and fill ditch:
From Toolspace:
Click Tool Palettes
Under Basic:
Choose BasicSideSlopeCutDitch
Change parameters
Side: Left (then right)
Cut Slope:
Fill Slope:
Bottom width:
Etc…..
To change any parameters, right
click on the drawing and choose
properties
Change anything under
parameters.
Click the shoulder in screen and
click Subassembly properties
Under parameter change:
• Shoulder width: 2m
• Use superelevation slope:
Right outside shoulder
• Daylight slope: 2%
• superelevation subbase: Yes
• sub-base slop: -2%
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• Pave depths:
• Click ok
Click the solpe in screen and click
Subassembly properties
Under parameters:
• Daylight Link: Include
Daylight link
• Backslope Slope: 2%
• Backslope width: 0.2m
• Bottom Width: 0m
• Cut slope 0.25%
• Fill slope 1%
• Foreslope slope: 0.25%
• Foreslope width: 0
• Material 1 Thickness: 0.30m
• Material 2 Thickness: 0.15
Select the assembly and click
mirror and click the center line of
the assembly
Corridors:
• Home
• Corridor (under create
design)
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Under Assembly:
Choose the templet cross section
(assembled)
Under Target surface:
Choose the surface
Click ok
Click Set all Targets (upper right
corner)
Under width Target, click object
name
• In the new list click Cl-right-
3.6
• Add
• Ok
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Under width Target, click object
name
• In the new list click Cl-left-3.6
• Add
ok
Click ok
Click Rebuild the corridor
To show the FG in the cross
section:
• Select cross section (in
screen)
• Click
• Sample More sources
• Select a cross section
• Click Add
• Ok
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Cut & fill:
Corridor in Toolpace:
• Right click on corridor
• Properties
• From surface click create
corridor surface
• Choose Datum under specify
code
• Click +
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• Under Boundaries, right click
on corridor surface and
choose Corridor extents as
outer boundary
• Click ok
• Click rebuild the corridor
• Choose any cross section
• Click sample more source
• Add the new corridor surface
to the right window (sampled
sources)
• ok
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• Click any cross section
• Click compute materials
• Ok
• We choose the surface of EG
• Choose the corridor surface
for Datum
• ok
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In any cross section, right click on
Section view Group Properties
Click change volume tables
(under section view)
• Choose Total Volume (under
Type)
• Click Add>>
• Ok
• Ok
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