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