Carlson
Civil includes a
variety of tools to accomplish the
task of grading, including point commands, 3D polylines commands,
contour
commands and a grading mechanism known as a Pad Template, which is
essentially
the equivalent of an LDT Grading Object.
Pad Templates provide some significant improvements, however,
such as
the ability to have a separate surface for the area inside the “pad”,
which
moves horizontally and vertically with edits to the pad, and the
ability to use
a template for the side slopes, so they can project complex grading
designs.