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Land Development Desktop Training  


Traning Dots Program Summary: This hands-on course covers the fundamental concepts, tools, and functions necessary to manage projects, work with point information, create topographic maps, parcel maps, and horizontal alignments using Autodesk® Land Desktop. Topics will also include creating coordinate geometry, annotating linework, defining surface models, calculating earthwork quantities, site analysis techniques, and lot sizing.

Who Should Attend?: This course is designed for the Civil Engineer or Surveyor who requires knowledge of Autodesk Land Desktop features and functionality. It is an appropriate course for all land-based disciplines such as planners, surveyors, civil engineers, foresters, construction engineers or any other resource-based industry professional.

Program Prerequisites: AutoCAD Fundamentals and Microsoft Windows 2000 or NT 4.0 is attained to gain the maximum benefit from this course. Standard engineering practices and terms are used throughout the course, so a basic understanding of these practices is suggested.

Course # Course Name  
3801 Land Development Desktop  

Course Outline: This is a detailed outline for the 24 hour Autodesk Land Desktop Fundamentals course. It incorporates the elements of generating topographic maps and performing basic civil engineering design functions.

Course Covers:

Working with Projects
  • Project Management Terms and Definitions
  • Creating a New Project
  • Creating a New Drawing
  • Managing Existing Project Information
  • Setting Options for Drawings and Projects
  • Using Prototypes
  • Transformation Settings for Geodetic Work

    Creating and Modifying Point Objects
  • Working with Point Settings
  • Creating Points
  • Editing Points
  • Importing Points from an ASCII File

    Working with Description Keys
  • Using the Description Key Manager
  • Points Settings for Using Description Keys

    Point Management and Labeling Tools
  • Listing and Printing Point Information
  • Using the Point Group Manager
  • Creating a Point Label Style
  • Labeling Existing Points
  • Importing Points with a Label Style
  • Creating a Database for use with XDRef’s
  • Using the Point XDRef Manager
  • XDRef’s and Point Label Styles

    Creating and Annotating Coordinate Geometry Linework
  • Drawing Lines and Arcs
  • Using Autodesk Land Desktop Point Filters (.P, .G, and .N)
  • Creating Special Lines
  • Drawing Spiral Segments
  • Creating Line, Arc, and Spiral Label Styles
  • Labeling Linework
  • Editing Labels
  • Creating Line and Curve Tags
  • Creating Line and Curve Tables

    Creating Terrain Models
  • Using the Terrain Model Explorer
  • Creating a New Surface
  • Working with Point Group Data
  • Working with Breakline Data
  • Working with Boundary Data
  • Building a Surface

    Editing and Analyzing Terrain Models
  • Importing Surface Information
  • Analyzing Surface Information
  • Surface Editing Tools
  • Working with Watersheds
  • Surface Utilities

    Working with Parcels
  • Parcel Settings
  • Defining Parcels from Existing Linework
  • Sizing New Parcels
  • Using the Parcel Manager

    Working with Horizontal Alignments
  • Horizontal Alignment Terms and Definitions
  • Defining a Horizontal Alignment
  • Using the Horizontal Alignment Editor
  • Setting Stationing Options
  • Creating Stationing
  • Generating Staking Reports

    Basic Site Grading Tools
  • Drawing 3D Polylines
  • Creating, Copying, and Offsetting Contours
  • Creating Surfaces from Contours
  • Calculating Site work Quantities Using Grid Cell Analysis
  • Generating Site work Contours

    Using Autodesk Land Desktop Inquiry Tools
  • Geodetic Inquiries
  • Linework Inquiries
  • Area Inquiries
  • Surface and Slope Inquiries

    Using Autodesk Land Desktop Utilities
  • Using the Symbol Manager
  • Creating Annotation Leaders
  • Block Tools
  • Editing Tools
  • Autodesk Land Desktop Macros

    Closing Remarks
  • Evaluations
  • Certificates


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