Lesson 1: Introduction to
PowerCivil
Intro to PowerCivil © 2005 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Do Not Duplicate
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WELCOME!
This document has been prepared to assist you in the exploration of and assimilation to
the powerful civil design capabilities of Bentley PowerCivil. Each document in the
PowerCivil Tutorial series is a self-contained PDF file with written instructions on how
to use the product including video clip guides which are hyper-linked directly to the
document. In addition, each lesson comes delivered with the data set so that you can
watch and then try the tools yourself.
In this tutorial, you will find many useful tools for the design and analysis of a
commercial land development project. Before starting any of the ensuing lessons, it is
recommended that you read this first lesson to become familiar with the capabilities of
the PowerCivil and to better understand how this tutorial is composed.
We are confident that you will learn many of the necessary skills needed to begin your
own project utilizing PowerCivil within this tutorial. So let’s get started!
LESSON OBJECTIVES
In this lesson, the topics covered include:
• Topic 1 Tutorial Layout – documents, video clips and data sets
• Topic 2 PowerCivil Capabilities
INTRODUCTION
This Lesson will show you how the tutorial is composed, helping you to navigate to
specific topics covered. You will also gain an understanding of the general capabilities
of the PowerCivil product. By knowing more about the product and the composition of
this tutorial, you will be able to target the particular tools that can have the greatest
impact on your existing design workflows. In addition, the following tutorial lessons are
structured to follow, generally a typical project workflow.
TUTORIAL LAYOUT
Each lesson of the tutorial is presented as its own document with corresponding video
clips and data set.
x The zip file delivered with this tutorial must be extracted to the “C-
Drive” of the PC in order for all configurations of the PowerCivil tutorial to
work properly.
