This text introduces the beginning student to Autodesk's Land Development Desktop software.  

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Lessons

1. Reviewing AutoCAD Basics

2. Land Desktop Impacts on the AutoCAD Environment

3. Setting AEC Points

4. Point Groups and the Land Desktop Project Manager

5. Importing and Exporting AEC Points

6. Rotation, Translation and Datum Adjustment

7. Lines and Curves

8. Line Labeling

9. Line and Curve Tables

10. Point Labeling

11. Parcel Computations

12. Creating a Surface

13. Faults (Breakines)

14. Creating Contours From Surface Data

15. Contour Labeling and Editing

16. Land Desktop Cross Sections

17. Earthwork Volumes

18. Earthwork Volumes Part II

19. Alignments 

20. Project Stationing and Setting Points by Station/Offset 

21. Civil Design Profiles 

22. Civil Design Cross Sections 

23. Civil Design Section Plotting 

24. Drawing Civil Design Templates 

25. Defining Civil Design Templates 

26. Civil Design Control-Templates 

27. Civil Design Control-Alignments 

28. Civil Design Control-Profiles 

29. Volume Computation in Civil Design by Average End Area Method 

198 pages

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Release 2008
ISBN:  978-1-58503-373-7

Release 2007
ISBN:  978-1-58503-354-6

Release 2006
ISBN:  978-1-58503-266-2

Release 2005
ISBN:  978-1-58503-211-2

Release 2004
ISBN:  978-1-58503-140-5

Release 3
ISBN:  978-1-58503-098-9