Chapter 1. AutoCAD Civil 3D Environment

This chapter describes the AutoCAD Civil 3D environment. To work effectively with Civil 3D®, you must understand the elements that make up the user interface, and how the fundamental methodology behind the program works.

The User Interface Lesson introduces you to ribbons and workspaces. Ribbons organize commands in a process oriented way, and workspaces control the appearance and position of windows, menus, toolbars, and other user interface elements. The Examining Toolspace lesson describes how you use the different tabs to manage drawing data, drawing settings, and create reports. The Creating Object, Object Styles and Label Styles lesson describes objects and how you use styles to control object and label ...

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