Autodesk CIVIL3D Tutorial - Page 405

A feature line can be used as a grading baseline, but not as a target. For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Creating Feature Lines. This exercise continues from the Setting Up Grading Standards (page 387) tutorial. Create feature lines from AutoCAD objects NOTE This exercise uses Grading-1.dwg with the modifications you made in the previous tutorial, or you can open Grading-2.dwg from the tutorial drawings folder (page 819). 1 Click Home tab ➤ Draw panel ➤ B to C. Line. Draw a line from circle A to 2 Click Home tab ➤ Create Design panel ➤ Feature Line drop-down ➤ Create Feature Lines From Objects . 3 Click both lines, then right-click and click Enter to end the selection. In the Create Feature Lines dialog box, notice that you can assign a name to the feature lines as they are created. Naming significant feature lines can make it easier to assign targets when creating a corridor. For this exercise, you will assign names after the feature lines have been created. Following this workflow enables you to create many feature lines at the same time, but name only the most significant feature lines. 4 In the Create Feature Lines dialog box, click OK. The lines are converted to feature lines and added to Site 1. You will assign elevation values to these feature lines later in this exercise. Next, you will draw a feature line and specify elevations along the line. Name the feature lines 1 In the drawing, select feature lines AB and BC. Right-click. Click Apply Feature Line Names. 2 In the Apply Feature Line Names dialog box, click . 3 In the Name Template dialog box, for Property Fields, select Next Counter. Click Insert. Click OK. Exercise 1: Creating Feature Lines | 393