Mastering AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012

Multiregion Baselines

A question many people ask when working with corridors is, “At what point do I need another region?” The answer is simple: If you need a different assembly, you need a different region.

In the following example, you will step through adding an additional region to an existing baseline:

1. Open the drawing Multi-Region Corridor.dwg.

2. Select the corridor that exists in the drawing and select Corridor Properties from the contextual Ribbon tab.

3. On the Parameters tab, notice there is a baseline containing a single region. Right-click on the region and select Split Region, as shown in Figure 10-11.

Figure 10-11: Right-click to access Region Creation tools.

4. At the command line, enter 4000↵ to create a split at 40+00. ...