I'm using Civil 3D and use feature lines, which will grade it as a constant slope along the circumference of the curve, and you can move the entire feature line up and down, or vertex-by-vertex, change the radius, etc. However, if all I want is a TIN for volume calculations, I'll consider just...
Regardless of the software you use, The first thing you can do is analyze the site for critical and non-critical slopes. This cuts down the workload by filtering your mind down to what has to change. If your site is designed to keep critical areas detached from one another as much as possible...
Save a typical section for each common profile and keep it in your templates or toolbar. Use closed polylines and associated hatching. If your sections are very similar and can be drawn by a well-defined set of variables (i.e., only varies by depth, width, layer depths, etc.) then you should use...
