This text introduces the beginning student to Autodesk's Land Desktop software. Table of Contents 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 (Breaklines) 14. Creating Contours From Surface Data 15.

Land Desktop Cross Sections 16. Earth Volumes 17. Alignments 18. Civil Design Profiles 19. Civil Design Cross Sections 20. Civil Design Section Plotting 21. Drawing Civil Design Templates 22. Defining Civil Design Templates 23.

Civil Design Control-Templates 24. Civil Design Control-Alignments 25. Civil Design Control-Profiles 26. Civil Design Volume Computations 27. Civil Design Grading Object 28. Civil/Survey Tool Pack.