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In this movie, you use Civil View's Swept Object tool to create walls and fences, and the underside structure of the bridge.

In this movie, you use a Civil View Railing tool to create guardrails to separate traffic lanes from sidewalks.

In this movie, you create road markings. Instead of building them manually as geometry or as maps, you let Civil View do the work for you through an elegant and easy to use interface.

In this movie, you create a Private Resource Kit by copying one that ships with Civil View. A Private Resource Kit is useful as it allows you to edit your library by adding or removing components without affecting the libraries that ship with the product.

Before you start experimenting with what Civil View has to offer, you need to establish a basic scene setup that deals with items such as rendering output, a sun system and possibly a background image.

In this movie, you output your Civil 3D design into a format that lets you manipulate it in 3ds Max Design. The format in question is VSP3D and is particularly suited to work with the Civil View plugin.

In this movie, you create a Corridor, which now becomes an easy task once the three needed components, Alignment, Profile and Assembly are in place.

In this movie, you create an Assembly.This is the third and last component you need to create a corridor. An Assembly is basically a cross-section of the road you need, where you define shoulders, lanes, gutters and sidewalks among others.

In this movie, you create a Profile, which is the second component needed to build a Civil 3D Corridor. It represents a side projection that shows the topography of the terrain in relation to the road (or in this case bridge) you are creating.

In this movie, you create an Alignment which is the first of three components needed to build a Civil 3D Corridor. An alignment is a top projection of a road, basically how it winds down atop a surface.