Focusing on best practice and presenting relevant exercises that familiarizing users with the commands, design components, and software tools, Harnessing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 offers all the information needed to learn the fundamentals of this widely used civil engineering program. The book's comprehensive coverage includes straightforward explanations of program functionality plus exercises demonstrating how its concepts fit into civil engineering design. The book's logical organization fully lays out the process for performing all of the tasks required to create Civil 3D objects.