Land Desktop 2006 Training Course

Tutorial Getting Started With Land Desktop

 An overview of Land Desktop
 The LDT workspace.
 Creating a new drawing
 Setting up a drawing
 Customizing LDT Settings
 Working with Prototypes
 Setting Drawing Preferences

Working with Points

 Overview of Points training
 Working with Point Settings
 More Point Settings 
 Using Description Keys 
 Importing Points from an ASCII File 
 Modifying the Display of Points 
 Working with Point Groups 
 Printing Point Groups 
 Updating Point Groups 
 Inserting Point Groups 
 Listing Point Groups

 Using Autodesk Map

 Overview of Autodesk Map 
 Performing Queries 
 Using Data Objects in Queries

Line work

 Drawing lines from point object to point object 
 Loading and working with the AECC linetypes 

Labels

 Labeling an enclosed area 
 Setting up line label styles 
 Using dynamic labels 
 Labeling short line segments with tags

Surfaces

 Preparing your drawing to build surfaces 
 Creating and building surfaces 
 Analyzing your surface for errors 
 Using surface breaklines to create accurate  surfaces 
 Using outer boundaries to help build surfaces 

Contours

 Creating contours for the surface 
 Setting up contour styles to label the contours

Alignments

 Setting up alignment label stationing 
 Labeling the alignment and creating points along the stations

Parcels

 Setting up and defining parcels 
 Sizing lots using the slide bearing method 
 Sizing lots using the radial method 
 Solving a complex parcel layout

Layers

 Using the layer manager to create layer groups
  Using the layer manager to create layer snapshots

Blocks & Details

 Using dynamic blocks to lay out a parking lot 
 Inserting details into a drawing 
 Modifying details

LandXML

 LandXML Introduction importing 
 LandXML Importing 
 LandXML Exporting 
 LandXML Exporting 2
 Style sheets css 
 Landxml reporting tool

Civil Design - Hydrology  
Surfaces
 

Pasting two surfaces together in Land Desktop
 

Preparing Data

 Preparing for a hydrologic analysis 
 Using visual aids and LDT tools to analyze a surface 
 Changing hydrology settings

Preparing Data

 Preparing pre and post subdrainage area with soil maps, RCN's and TC's 
 Subdividing drainage areas training
 Subdividing drainage areas 
 Identifying flow paths

TR-55

 Working with LDT's TR-55 tabular method for pre development 
 Working with LDT's TR-55 tabular method for post development 
 Working with LDT's TR-55 tabular method for post development 
 Sizing a detention basin

Detention Pond

 Creating a detention pond 
 Creating a composite hydrograph

Civil Design - Highways  
Profiles

 Defining profile settings 
 How to create a profile
 Setting a current profile and moving profiles 
 Setting up a proposed profile 
 Designing a proposed profile 
 Adding vertical curves to a proposed profile 
 Labeling and editing a proposed profile - using AASHTO regulations

Sections

 Concepts of creating finished ground roadway templates 
 Using LDT tools to draw roadway templates 
 Setting up material tables and point codes for templates 
 Defining and editing a roadway template 
 Creating existing ground cross sections 
 Applying your template to existing ground cross sections 
 Applying super elevation to your templates 
 Creating a report of section area/volumes and how to import a mass haul graph 
 Inserting the roadway templates into existing ground sections
 

Pipes

 Changing settings before creating pipes 
 Drawing and defining a pipe run 
 Highlighting all pipe runs and identifying existing pipe runs in the drawing 
 Labeling pipe runs for plan and profile views 

Civil Design - Grading  
Grading Object

 Understanding and defining a grading object 
 Modifying, relocating and automatically updating your grading object 
 Applying preset grading values to a footprint with elevations 
 Creating a surface and contours from a grading object 

Multiple Grading Objects

 Combining curb grading objects on top of parking lot grading objects 
 Creating a surface with multiple grading objects
 Applying a grade to a pond bottom 
 Placing grading objects side by side 
 Creating a surface out of multiple grading objects

Volumes

 Generating volumes from two surfaces 
 Creating a table of volume results 
 Creating a grading object, modify, relocate, and balance its volumes

3D Polylines

 Working with LDT's 3D polyline tools 
 Working with LDT's 3D polyline tools to create a 3D model of a parking lot 
 Working with LDT's 3D polyline tools to create a 3D model of a parking lot

3D Polylines - Surface

 Creating a surface with 3D polylines 
 Using daylighting tools for a parking lot perimeter 
 Modifying and creating surfaces with 3D polylines

Survey

 Introduction to Autodesk Survey 
 Preparing to Download a Field book File 
 Importing a Field book File 
 Using Crandall's Rule 
 Using the Least Squares Method 
 Import Adjusted Coordinates 
 Processing a Second Loop - Individual Approach 
 Processing a Third Loop - Importing Corrected Data 
 Figures - Introduction 
 Processing a 3rd Loop - Manual Input 
 Processing Multiple Loops - Network Approach 
 Trimble Link Data Import