How To Grade Curb And Gutter Using Feature Lins

In this course grading with feature lines in civil 3d you will learn how to use feature lines to their fullest which will get rid of all manual slope calculations from point to point and make grading faster and easier.

How to grade curb and gutter using feature lins.

I have been creating grading objects from my curb lines assigning grades using the editor then offsetting that line for the back of curb and using the raise lower command to raise the curb line height. This technique is ideal for wide fairly flat areas such as parking lots or building pads. Grade to distance by elevation distance 1 elev diff 1. First you will learn all the ways you can create and edit feature lines.

You can use grading objects to accomplish this. Then grade to distance d 49 grade 0. Creating basic feature lines in civil 3d. Then from that line grade to dist by elevaton d 01 e 5.

Curb gutter assembly on parking lot feature lines. This allows the use of curb and gutter throughout a parking lot. Start with edge of pavement line. Basically the gutter pan tips away from the flow line at 1 per foot.

Fi n a l l y curb face forms are mounted on the division plates and locked into position. Feature line grading involves creating a set of feature lines to define the graded region as surface breaklines and then adjusting the elevation of key points to control the shape of the surface. If i edit the original face of curb line gutter grade then i go back and redo the process. Hooked into slots along the curb form and front gutter f o r ms are attached to free ends of the division plates be f o r e squaring the forms and driving stakes.

There s nothing to say that the gutter pan can t tip away from the flow line of the curb and gutter. It is also well suited. When water must be shed away from the curb use an inverted gutter pan.