Autodesk Civil 3D
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Comprehensive detailed design and documentation software for civil infrastructure
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Features
48 features across 21 categories
Analysis(4)
Perform a variety of stormwater management tasks, including storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modeling, and culvert, channel, and inlet analysis
Conduct surface-related analysis, including contour, directions, elevations, slopes, slope-arrows, watersheds, and water drop path
Use the Volumes Dashboard to calculate and analyze volume surfaces and bounded areas within those surfaces
Analyze how water flows along and off a surface to better determine drain targets and watersheds
Asset Management(1)
Deploy both subassemblies and assemblies more efficiently by sharing a custom subassembly in a shared project location. Corridors consuming the subassembly can be easily updated to use the new version
Automation(3)
Use visual programming to generate scripts that automate repetitive and complex tasks, including electrification and signaling
Use the Dynamo visual scripting environment to develop routines that automate repetitive design tasks and expedite workflows
Automate the process for conducting grading design studies for land areas based on established design project criteria
Collaboration(2)
Enable designers to author, share, and update design projects in a central data environment. Make real-time updates at any phase of the project lifecycle to share with different teams
Create and share data shortcuts for corridors
Data Export(1)
Extract corridor feature lines with ease to use as a basis for creating grading objects or other design projects. Extracting feature lines can be done all at once, selected one-by-one, or by selecting a subset within a corridor region or a polygon
Data Processing(1)
Use a large collection of points acquired by laser scanners and other capture technologies to create digital representations of existing conditions and structures
Design(9)
Model roundabouts according to defined standards. Build your roundabouts into existing corridor models, enabling your design to update automatically when you make changes to the corridor alignments
Efficiently use assemblies and subassemblies to establish the basic building blocks of a roadway or other alignment-based design
Coordinate workflows more efficiently across the various disciplines working on complex bridge design projects
Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for highways and roads. Build rail track corridor models, incorporating designs for switches, turnouts, and cant calculations
Create and edit corridor transition when you want to transition a parameter in a subassembly from one value to another. More controls have been added to allow easy movement of transitions and rearranging the order of transitions
Grading tools and commands facilitate the efficient design of finished ground surfaces
Create dynamic models of 3-way (T-shaped) or 4-way intersections, as well as roundabouts
Create dynamic 3-way, 4-way, or roundabout intersections
Manage objects (parcels, alignments, gradings, and feature lines) with a common topology in a site collection
Documentation(2)
Create plan-only, plan and profile, profile-only, and section sheets by including multiple plan or profile views on a single sheet
Quickly create construction documents from drawings, including plan/profile, plan(s)-only, profile(s)-only, and section sheets
Editing(1)
Work with editing tools that add edits to a surface definition as edit operations and not to any of the existing surface data components
Engineering Analysis(1)
Manage stormwater and sanitary sewer design. Define pipeline paths, optimized with hydraulics/hydrology analysis
Engineering Design(2)
Generate 3D models of pressure networks, such as water transmission systems. More controls have been added for layout and editing workflows including merging pressure networks, DREF sync improvements, and party symbol display
Lay out horizontal and vertical pressure network designs; model deflected-curve pipe segments and use design and depth checks
Integration(4)
Create professional-quality visualizations
Five new Esri basemaps are available under Geolocation to help designers and engineers visualize terrain, streets, and structures
Bring context modeling and conceptual design into your design process. Make better decisions with a real-world context of existing conditions, more efficiently consider alternatives, and complete detailed design and documentation in Civil 3D
Streamline the process of incorporating geographical data into your designs, ensure accurate geolocation of assets, analyze for planning, and contextually visualize your designs
Interoperability(1)
Import and export AutoCAD solids to IFC files
Modeling(7)
Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for highways, roads, and rail tracks
Visualize and analyze subsurface data and easily utilize that data directly in the Civil 3D design model
Efficiently draw 2D and 3D models of utility systems, such as storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and more
Allow engineers to set up and create complex and multi-base corridors faster and with greater efficiency
Modify the level of details you'd like to see in your surface workflows. Engineers have the option to reduce the surface level of detail or render high surface details
Create surfaces composed of a combination of points, breaklines, boundaries, and contours with support for TIN, Grid, Cropped, and Corridor surfaces
Create digital models of topography for land-use studies, transportation system planning, and water flow simulations
Performance(2)
Performance enhancements have been made to various corridor workflows, including corridor properties, corridor surface creation, and corridor regeneration
Experience performance improvements when saving surface MMS files. MMS files no longer update if there is no surface geometry change
Project Management(1)
Manage the staggering volume of design data in Civil 3D models in this tool. Easily review, validate, report, export and edit models. Enhancements have been made to the navigation capabilities and tools to make management and reporting of custom property data more efficient
Reporting(2)
Use materials and sectional or profile information to create reports for volumes, comparing design and existing surfaces and quantity takeoff
Extract and report material volumes and analyze quantities from materials and sectional or profile information
Survey(1)
Streamline the download, creation, analysis, and adjustments of field-captured survey data
Survey & Site Design(1)
Download, create, analyze, and adjust survey data, as well as transfer field-captured data to the office
Visualization(1)
A display tool that enables you to block out areas of a surface and prevent them from being displayed or to render a section of the surface using a specified render material
Workflow(1)
More efficiently process field-captured survey data to create an intelligent base map in Civil 3D
Pricing
Monthly Subscription
- ✓All core Civil 3D features
- ✓Access to 3 previous versions
Annual Subscription
- ✓All core Civil 3D features
- ✓Access to 3 previous versions
- ✓30-day money-back guarantee
Free Trial
- ✓Access to full Civil 3D functionality
- ✓Limited trial period
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Integrations
6 known integrations