Mastering AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012

Advanced Assemblies

As you get to know Civil 3D better, you will want it to do more for you. With the tools you are given and your own creativity and problem-solving skills, Civil 3D can create some serious designs. Offset assemblies and marked point assemblies are weapons in your arsenal of awesome.

Offset Assemblies

Offset assemblies are an advanced option when you want to model a coordinating structure whose design is related to the main assembly. An example of where an offset assembly would be helpful is a main road adjacent to a meandering bike path. The bike path generally follows the main road, but its alignment is not always parallel and the profile might be altogether different. Figure 8-47 shows what the assembly for a bike path to ...