The Plan Production Chapter now includes section generation and using the Plan Production Section tool to include sections in the project Sheet Set. The corridor chapter now includes sample lines and material quantities (formerly in the QTO\Sections chapter), along with an exercise on using the Corridor Section Editor.
With regard to the point cloud, the Quary Park.rcs file is now a separate download for the dataset. The point cloud section and the 3D solids extraction formerly in the surface chapter have been moved to the appendix. The topics of templates and style management formerly in this chapter have been moved to the Project Management chapter (formerly Chapter 2, now Chapter 4). The introduction chapter is shortened and less technical.
The folder structure has changed to mimic a professional Civil project, either on a local area network of housed in a BIM 360 hub. The outline of the Civil 3D Fundamentals courses (Metric and Imperial) for 2021 has been adjusted to reflect a more realistic workflow.
Prior to teaching the 2021 course, it is recommended the instructors study the course to familiarize themselves with the location of various files and the new flow of the course. Over the past two releases of this course, a lot of changes have been introduced, primarily in the order of chapters within the book and the folder structure of the dataset. These three courses all cover the basics and there is quite a lot of overlap among the three courses.
The Civil 3D Fundamentals course is a four-day course covering all aspects of Civil 3D at a basic level.