Please Note: This is an INTERMEDIATE skills course intended for County personnel only.  A base of experience/familiarity in using Civil 3D, AutoCAD or similar, is necessary before attending this workshop.

A future Intermediate Civil 3D course will be developed and offered for cities and other personnel, depending on interest/need.

This class has reached capacity.  To be added to a wait list (first come, first served) in case of cancellations or to express interest in being notified when this class is offered again in the future, please contact David Veneziano (dvenez@iastate.edu or 515-294-5480)

Workshop Description

In this two day course designed by county staff and intended for county users with Civil 3D or AutoCAD experience, participants will learn about the fundamental tools and workflows suitable to work performed in counties in Iowa.  Students will gain a knowledge of Surveying, Alignment and Profiles, Corridors, and an introduction to Feature Lines. Total course time will be approximately 14 hours (7 hours per day), approximately 2 weeks between each one-day class.  Computer workstations will be provided for each registrant.

Who Should Attend?

County staff and personnel with moderate Civil 3D or AutoCAD® user experience looking to expand their knowledge base on the tools and workflows applicable to their day to day work with the software.

**Please be advised that per Iowa engineers and continuing education requirements under 193C-7.4(542B, 272C) “Professional Development Guidelines”, Section 7.4(4) is “Exclusions”, which indicates that “Basic CAD and fundamental computer application courses” are excluded from allowable continuing education.**

Tentative Agenda (Lunch provided each day)

Day 1  (1/14/2025)

8:30 a.m. Check-in

9:00 a.m. Start of day

Module 1: Civil 3D Interface

Module 2: Survey Data Collection

• Introduction to Surveying w/ Civil 3D
  • Description Key Set
  • Figure Prefix Data Base
  • Linework Code Set
  • Survey Database
• Hands On Exercise of Topoing a jobsite
  • Creating survey points using an aerial image
  • Extracting and Importing the points into a new drawing
  • Heirarchy of Correction of miscoded shots
• Surface Creation
  • Addition of Breaklines

 Module 3: Alignments & Profiles

• Creating Alignments by Layout & From Object
• Editing & Annotating Alignments
• Profile Views
• Creating Surface & Layout Profiles
• Editing & Annotating Profiles
• Data Shortcuts: Setup and Workflow

4:00 p.m. Adjourn

Day 2  (2/4/2025)

8:30 a.m. Check-in

9:00 a.m. Start of day

Module 4: Corridors

• Assemblies, Codes, & Subassemblies
• Baseline & Region management: Targeting, Frequency, & Assemblies
• Hands On Exercise: Corridor Modeling
  • Bridge to Box Culvert: Replacing a bridge w/ a box culvert
  • HMA – Mill and Overlay w/ shoulder widening and ditch recon
  • Poured Concrete – Mill and Overlay w/ a bonded concrete
• Corridor Surfaces
• Troubleshooting common Corridor problems
• Introduction to “conditional” Subassemblies

Module 5: Feature Lines & Grading (DEMO)

• Working with Sites
• Creating Feature Lines by Layout & From Object
• Basic Feature Line editing
• TIN Surfaces with proposed data
• Tieing in a box culvert at the corridor to the EG surface

 Module 6: LIDAR (Optional)

• Data types: LAS and LAZ
• Post Processing of data
• Inserting into Civil 3D

4:00 p.m. Adjourn

For More Information

If you have questions or need more information, please contact David Veneziano at 515-294-5480 or dvenez@iastate.edu.