Professional Site Design and Plan Production in AutoCAD
Throughout this AutoCAD tutorial, we'll explore the use of 2D drafting tools to produce a professional commercial site design with civil engineering plan production. Software required: AutoCAD 2015.
What you'll learn
Throughout this AutoCAD tutorial, we'll explore the use of 2D drafting tools to produce a professional commercial site design with civil engineering plan production. We'll start by using an appropriate drawing template for civil engineering projects using the US Imperial dimensional units, and we'll also reference our existing conditions survey that is set to a real-world coordinate system. We'll then pull in the project architect's building design and begin laying out the surrounding site features such as sidewalks, access drives, and parking areas. We'll finish by setting up a plan sheet, dimensioning the site features, adding text and leader annotations and plotting our plans to PDF files. By the end of this AutoCAD training, you'll have a strong focus on drafting and design efficiency by using the appropriate AutoCAD draw or modify tools for the job at hand. Software required: AutoCAD 2015.
Table of contents
- Setting up Our Site Design Project 9m
- Designing Our Building and Surroundings 13m
- Continue Designing Around the Building 12m
- Laying out Our Parking Lot 11m
- Continuing to Layout Our Parking Lot 12m
- Finalizing Our Ada Parking Area 11m
- Utilizing Non-standard Geometry 12m
- Finishing Complex Parking Sections 11m
- Utilizing Our Site Access Drives 13m
- Cleaning up Our Design File 10m
- Setting up Our Plan Sheet 12m
- Understanding Plot Styles 10m
- Layers, Scales and Dimensions 11m
- Creating Large Scale Viewports 10m
- Adding Notes and Finalizing Our Prints 11m
About the author
Curtis is registered professional engineer (Florida and Tennessee) and BIM for civil infrastructure specialist at Innerlight Engineering Corporation in Miramar Beach, Florida. Curtis brings over 8 years of AutoCAD Civil 3D experience and AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Professional status. His previous experience included the development and maintenance of drawing templates, workflow standards, BIM catalogs, training, and support for a large, multi-national architecture and engineering firm for its A... more