Chapter-1| Exercise 1.2: use the Ribbon to launch Commands

 In this exercise, you will familiarize yourself with the ribbon’s tabs and panels.

1. Launch Civil 3D 2023, and open the file named User Interface.dwg.

2. Click the Home tab of the ribbon to bring it to the forefront (it may be there already).

3. Click the downward-pointing white triangle at the bottom of the Create Design panel and

note how it expands down.

4. Click the Insert tab of the ribbon. Here, you see words like insert, import, and attach, which

are all ways of bringing information into the drawing.

5. Click the other tabs of the ribbon, and see whether you can relate some of the words you see

in the commands to the title of each ribbon tab.

6. Place your cursor in the left viewport, and roll the mouse wheel forward to zoom in to the

drawing. Keep zooming in until you can clearly see the road centrelines labelled with stationing

numbers (these are Civil 3D alignments). Click one of the road centrelines, and note that the

ribbon displays a contextual tab to make alignment commands accessible (see Figure 1.6).

7. Keep this drawing open for the next exercise.

Because nothing changes in this drawing file as a result of the exercise steps, no User

Interface – Complete file is necessary.

FREE DOWNLOAD PRACTICE FILE HERE:

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You can Watch this Exercise Video here:

Exercise #2 (Video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0an4QpCiN2I&list=PLUfG0g2DwpSsd1NJo4cMmvSazkW5DKUkA&index=4