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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