Corridor Modeling Workflow
Refer to this section for high-level descriptions of tasks you might perform when working with
corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D.
Topics in this section
Workflow: To Prepare the Drawing for Corridor Creation
Workflow: To Set Up Data for Corridor Creation
Workflow: To Create Corridors
Workflow: To Edit a Corridor in Section View
Workflow: To Visualize Corridors
Workflow: To Export Corridor Data
1 Workflow: To Prepare the Drawing for Corridor Creation
Creating drawing templates that contain standard styles and settings will help you work more
efficiently and ensure that your final drawings conform to your office standards.
Open a drawing Open an existing drawing or create a new one.
Select the default settings Use corridor settings to specify the default behavior for corr
Create the styles Styles control the display and design characteristics of draw
Create and specify the label styles You can define default label settings at three different levels
Create the quantity takeoff criteria Use quantity takeoff settings to specify the default style and
quantity takeoff.
Save the drawing as a template (.dwt) By saving as a template, you can leverage the style and setti
2 Workflow: To Set Up Data for Corridor Creation
Before you create corridors, you must have existing data, such as existing ground surfaces,
alignments (centerlines), profiles (vertical alignments), and typical sections (assemblies).
Build the existing ground surfaces Surfaces are used to derive alignments and profiles, and for
Design the horizontal alignments Alignments are used by a corridor as its centerline.
Create the profiles Use existing ground profiles and design finished grade profi
Calculate Calculate superelevation for the curves on the baseline align
Important: All calculations should be finalized before they are
superelevation or cant
model. Changes in a corridor baseline alignment are not reflect
the design criteria does not update the corridor model.
Plan the required assemblies Before creating an assembly, identify the different types of s
Create and maintain the required assemblies Use subassemblies to build the required assemblies.
3 Workflow: To Create Corridors
This section provides the processes used to create corridors.
Create a corridor Use the Create Corridor or Create Simple Corridor comman
Watch video: Create a Basic Corridor
Modify the corridor Make any required customizations to settings or styles for th
Modify or override individual corridor stations Override corridor and assembly parameters and apply the ov
of stations.
4 Workflow: To Edit a Corridor in Section View
This section provides the process used to create and edit corridors in section view.
Create a corridor Specify a baseline alignment and profile, but do not create r
Open the section editor Use the section editor to view cross sections of the corridor
or editing a corridor.
Specify other objects to display in the section editor Specify which Autodesk Civil 3D objects you want to repre
Navigate to a station Use the section editor tools to navigate to a corridor station.
that is between corridor stations.
Create a corridor region Drag and drop an assembly from the Prospector, a Tool Pale
specify the targets and station range for the region.
Change region assemblies as desired Specify a new region assembly either from a list, or by drag
Prospector, a Tool Palette, or a catalog.
5 Workflow: To Visualize Corridors
After you have created a corridor, create corridor surfaces and boundaries to help you visualize the
corridor.
Create a corridor surface When you create a corridor surface, it is added to the Surfac
Create corridor boundaries Use corridor surface boundaries to prevent triangulation out
corridor surface.
View corridor sections You can use the View/Edit Corridor Section Tools to visual
are applied at various stations.
Render a corridor boundary region Render corridor data using the AutoCAD Render command.
6 Workflow: To Export Corridor Data
After creating a corridor, you can export several types of data.
Export corridor feature lines Export corridor feature lines as alignments, grading feature
Export corridor points as COGO points Export all points from a selected corridor or constrain the se
ranges or point code types.
Export corridor surfaces as disconnected surfaces Exported surfaces are no longer part of the corridor.
