Corridors Tutorials

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These tutorials will get you started working with the corridor modeling tools, which are used
to design and generate complex roadway corridor models.
If you have not installed AutoCAD Civil 3D to the default location, you may receive messages
in the Event Viewer indicating that subassembly macro paths are not found. To avoid these
messages, it is recommended that you follow the exercises in the order presented.

NOTE All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorial drawings folder (page
819). If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Civil
Tutorial Data folder (page 819) so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.

For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding Corridor Modeling.

Tutorial: Creating a Basic Corridor Model

This tutorial demonstrates how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D objects to build a basic
corridor model.

NOTE This tutorial uses the corridor assembly that you built in the Creating an
Assembly (page 422) exercise.

A corridor model builds on and uses various AutoCAD Civil 3D objects and
data, including subassemblies, assemblies, alignments, surfaces, and profiles.
Corridor objects are created along one or more baseline alignments by placing
a 2D section (assembly) at incremental locations and creating matching slopes
that reach a surface model at each incremental location.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Creating Corridors.

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 Specify the dependent objects

1 Open Corridor-1a.dwg, which is located in the tutorial drawings folder (page

819).

2 Click Home tab ➤ Create Design panel ➤ Corridor drop-down ➤ Create

Corridor .

3 When the ‘Select baseline alignment’ prompt is displayed, select the First
Street alignment.

4 When the ‘Select a profile’ prompt is displayed, select the blue, Finished
Grade Centerline - First Street profile.

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 (Profile view grid lines removed for clarity)

5 When the ‘Select an assembly’ prompt is displayed, select the Primary

Road Full Section assembly baseline.

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 Specify the corridor parameters

1 In the Create Corridor dialog box, for Corridor Name, enter First Street.

2 In the RG-Primary Road Full Section - (1) row, in the End Station cell,
enter 0+440.00.

3 In the Frequency cell, click .

4 In the Frequency To Apply Assemblies dialog box, under Apply Assembly,

for Along Curves, enter 3.000. Click OK.

5 In the Create Corridor dialog box, click Set All Targets.

In the Target Mapping dialog box, you can map logical names in
subassemblies to actual objects in the drawing. For example, the
BasicSideSlopeCutDitch subassembly requires that a surface be specified
for calculating the daylight points.

6 In the table, in the Object Name column, click <Click Here To Set All>.

7 In the Pick A Surface dialog box, select surface EG.

This sets the daylight points for both the BasicSideSlopeCutDitch
subassemblies to the same surface.

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 8 Click OK three times.
The corridor model is built and looks like this:

To continue to the next tutorial, go to Creating a Corridor with a Transition

Lane (page 463).

Tutorial: Creating a Corridor with a Transition

Lane
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a corridor with a transition lane. The
tutorial uses some of the subassemblies that are shipped with AutoCAD Civil
3D to create an assembly. Then, you create a roadway where the travel lane
widths and slopes are controlled by offset alignments, profiles, polylines, and
feature lines.

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