Name: A Practical Guide to Autodesk Civil 3D 2026
SKU: 9781934865972
Price: 99.99 USD
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A Practical Guide to Autodesk Civil 3D 2026

Digital Book ISBN 9781934865972
Physical Book ISBN 9781934865965

By Rick Ellis – Award winning Autodesk University speaker

$99.99

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After Completing This Book You'll Be Able To

Navigate the latest workspace ribbons
Understand and work with object styles
Create, manage and apply label styles
Manage drawing settings
Import and manage points, and work with point groups
Create and edit alignments
Define and edit parcels
Create and edit profiles and profile views
Create corridors and extract information from them

Sample sections and plot section views
Import and leverage GIS Data in your Civil 3D projects
Use queries to manage and share data
Layout Pipe Networks and edit them in plan and profile
Create Pressure Pipe Networks and edit them in plan and profile
Work with the Grading tools
Create reports for Civil 3D objects
Calculate volumes
Share project data with Data Shortcuts

What Instructors Say

After trying many Civil 3D textbooks and training materials in my classes I have found A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D to be comprehensive and detailed yet not overwhelming. This book is organized the way a professional would develop a civil engineering project giving clear and concise steps, exercises, and guides along the way to quick proficiency in using AutoCAD Civil 3D. The best on the market! I continue to recommend this guide to my colleagues.

Danial L. Perry, MBA, PLS

Utah Valley University

Rick Ellis is one of the leading authorities on Civil Engineering & Surveying software in the United States and the author of the Practical Guide series. He lectures and teaches seminars across the country. I have attended his seminars. The textbooks Rick Ellis has written have been an exceptional addition to my classroom. They are written with thought and imagination. They are direct and to the point. They are easy for the students to follow yet challenging enough to keep the students interested and using their skills and learning to think through exercises. I would suggest all Civil Engineering and Surveying professors review his books. Once read and reviewed I would venture to say, they will be using them in the classroom.

Robert Vetrano

Springfield Technical Community College

More About The Book

Welcome to the next generation of training materials for AutoCAD Civil 3D, the Practical Guide.

The Practical Guide books have been formatted to maximize learning by starting all lessons with an explanation of the concepts and processes that will be covered; followed by real world examples in step-by-step exercises that you can perform yourself with the included dataset.

It is 424 pages, featuring over 140 exercises organized into 35 lessons in 11 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand “why”, not just “how”.

This new Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 book focuses on effectively using this powerful software, providing you with skills that other professionals are using in the workplace every day.

Instructors: this book is used in classrooms worldwide. Find out more about using it in your next class.

Written, printed and published in the United States of America.

Author

Rick Ellis, president of CADapult Software Solutions, Inc, has worked with and taught Autodesk Civil 3D, along with Map 3D and other Autodesk products since the mid-90s. He is the Author of several critically acclaimed books on Autodesk Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, Land Desktop and Carlson Software; including the Practical Guide series.

Rick continues to use Autodesk Civil 3D on projects in a production environment, in addition to teaching classes to organizations both large and small around the country, helping them get the most out of their design software investment.

This practical background and approach has made him an award winning speaker at Autodesk University and a sought after instructor by organizations around the world.

Weight	3.1 lbs
Dimensions	11.25 × 10 × 1.5 in
Type of book	Digital – Instant download, Physical – Spiral bound

Features And Benefits Of All CADapult Software Books

Lessons build upon one another using a contiguous dataset, providing consistency
Skills learned through easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures
Sequential exercises that follow one logical, real-world example project
Flexible datasets allow you to “skip ahead” to a relevant lesson, or use as an on-demand reference guide

A Practical Guide to Autodesk Civil 3D 2026