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CIVIL 3D
2009
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software provides a better surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution for civil engineering, including land development, transportation, and environmental projects. By automatically updating documentation as design changes are made, AutoCAD Civil 3D enables civil engineers, designers, d rafters, and surveyors to significantly boost productivity and deliver higher-quality designs and construction documentation faster. With Civil 3D, the entire project team works from the same consistent, up-to-date model so they stay coordinated throughout all project phases. Integrated tools for developing 3D visualizations help engineers too clearly communicate design intent and create winning presentations.
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A Better Way of Working
Working with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software is quite simply a better way of designing, analyzing, and documenting civil engineering projects.
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By intelligently connecting design and documentation, AutoCAD Civil 3D helps you boost productivity, deliver higher-quality designs and construction documentation, improve coordination, and clearly communicate design intent to win the next job. Whether you work on land development, transportation,
or environmental projects, Civil 3D is the right choice for your organization.
Not Just Faster: Higher Quality
Working with Civil 3D reduces the time it takes to design, analyze, and implement changes so you can evaluate more what-if scenarios—realizing improved results faster. And with styles-based drafting you can reduce errors and deliver higher-quality, more consistent construction documentation.
On Schedule and on Budget
With Civil 3D, the entire team works from the same up-to-date model so they stay coordinated throughout all project phases. Through a scalable approach ranging from xrefs and data shortcuts to
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integrated data management and version control, Civil 3D gives local and remote team members parallel access to the latest model, helping to keep projects on schedule and on budget.
Communicate Winning Ideas
Smart design is not everything. You need to communicate your ideas to multiple stakeholders, including the public and review boards. With 3D visualization tools, Civil 3D makes it easy to create high-impact presentations that quickly communicate design intent to your audience.
One Flexible Solution
With Civil 3D, you have the flexibility to handle a broad range of project types, including land development, transportation, and environmental.
In addition, the software has the depth of function-ality to support the technical needs of your entire project team—from civil engineers, designers,
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Better Surveying, Design, and Analysis
From surveying to design and advanced analysis,
AutoCAD Civil 3D streamlines and accelerates workflows with purpose-built tools for automating time-consuming tasks and predicting project performance. |
With Civil 3D, design and analysis changes are automatically reflected in the documentation so you can immediately understand the impact of changes, evaluate more alternatives, and achieve higher-quality results faster.
Preliminary Design
Pull in aerial imagery and terrain models from the Google Earth™ application; import geographic information system data such as road centerlines and wetlands boundaries; and then use the purpose-built design tools to lay out preliminary road and lot designs—all without hiring a survey crew. In the detailed design phase, you can swap out your conceptual surface for the more detailed surface and all model information updates automatically.
Surveying
Survey functionality is fully integrated into
Civil 3D so you have a consistent environment for all tasks, including direct import of raw survey data, least-squares adjustment, editing of survey observations, and automated creation of survey
figures and surfaces. Most important, the result—points, survey figures, and surfaces—can be used throughout the design process. Civil 3D also provides an interactive Map Check feature for identifying errors and omissions of segment labels, including legal descriptions and plats.
Pipes
Use rules-based tools to lay out sanitary and
storm drainage systems. Make changes to pipes
and structures using graphical or numerical input, and conduct interference checks. Plot and complete final drafting of the pipe network in plan, profile, and section views, and share pipe network infor-mation, such as material and size, with external analysis applications.
Mass Haul Diagrams
As the coordination between engineers and contractors
becomes increasingly important, mass haul diagrams continue to be a vital tool for planning the movement, amount, and placement of material during construction. Use Civil 3D to generate mass haul diagrams for analyzing the distance over which cut and fill can balance, the amount of material to be moved, the direction of movement, and the identification of borrow pits and dump sites. |
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Surfaces
Civil 3D supports large surface models while maintaining dynamic relationships to source data, including contours, breaklines, corridor models,
and grading objects. Once generated, the surface can be used to display contours, catchment areas, flow paths, elevation and slope analysis, and 3D render-ready views. Use surfaces as a reference for creating profiles, sections, grading plans, and corridors. Any change to the source data results in automatic updates to surfaces and references.
Grading
Civil 3D includes powerful daylighting and grade projection tools that team members can use to generate surface models for any type of grading projection. You also get easy-to-use graphical and tabular grading manipulation tools for use in the development of any surface. Civil 3D grading capabilities remain dynamically linked to corridor models and alignments/profiles, enabling you
to solve difficult design challenges in new, more flexible ways.
Parcel Layout
Generate parcels by converting existing AutoCAD® polylines or by using flexible layout tools to automate the process. AutoCAD Civil 3D uses a topology to manage parcels so that a change to one parcel is automatically reflected in neighboring parcels.
Storm Water Hydraulics and Hydrology
Three new extensions are available to Civil 3D customers for storm water hydraulics and hydrology including storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modeling, and culvert analysis.
- Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software is an easy-to-use, full-featured storm sewer design and analysis package.
- Hydraflow Hydrographs Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software is a comprehensive solution for watershed analysis and detention pond design, from simple sites to complex watersheds with interconnected ponds.
- Hydraflow Express Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® provides a collection of powerful calculators that solve everyday hydraulics and hydrology problems for culverts, channels,
inlets, hydrology, and weirs.
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Top 10 Reasons
AutoCAD Civil 3D software provides better design, analysis, and construction documentation for civil engineering.
- Data Compatibility and Interoperability
Accessing and importing data from disparate sources is critical to civil engineering projects. With AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, you can easily import and export data between CAD and GIS platforms, including
industry‐standard formats such as DWF™, Google Earth™, LandXML, DGN, and GIS data.
In AutoCAD®: Importing and exporting data in AutoCAD is limited to non‐georeferenced formats, which
limits your ability to exchange data with other users and coordinate‐based applications.
- Surveying
Tired of manually translating coordinate systems and transferring data from a survey package into your
civil engineering package? With AutoCAD Civil 3D, survey functionality is fully integrated so you can
quickly import raw survey data directly from industry‐standard data collectors, perform least‐square
adjustments, edit survey observations, and more. And with the Autodesk Survey Link Extension,
surveyors can quickly import, adjust, and convert proprietary survey data into manageable formats that
are easily consumed by Civil 3D or by third‐party applications such as those offered by Leica or Trimble®.
In AutoCAD: There is no survey functionality, so survey tasks need to be done manually which is a time
consuming and error‐prone process.
- Surfaces and Grading
Do you sketch out a set of contours based on a conceptual design so you can visualize how a project will begin to take shape? While this technique can be helpful, it is also error prone and can lead to hours of rework when changes occur. AutoCAD Civil 3D includes terrain shaping tools that support large surface models while maintaining dynamic relationships to source data, including contours, breaklines, corridor
models, and grading objects. And, any change to the source data results in automatic updates to surfaces and references, helping you save time and reduce errors.
In AutoCAD: Drawing contours is done manually which is not only tedious and time consuming but can compromise a project‘s budget and schedule.
- Purpose-Built Design Tools for Land Development and Transportation Projects
AutoCAD Civil 3D helps streamline and accelerate workflows with purpose‐built tools for automating
time‐consuming land development and transportation design tasks. With the robust alignment, profile,
and corridor modeling tools you can quickly layout and update road designs. And for land development
projects, Civil 3D includes parcel creation and grading tools that automate the process.
In AutoCAD: There is no specific functionality for completing complex land development or
transportation designs. As a result, engineers must use manual methods which are much more time
consuming, taking away from the time that can be spent on design iterations.
- Stormwater Hydraulics and Hydrology
Want to increase the value of your design information and be able to predict project performance
before construction begins? AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 includes stormwater design and analysis
functionality for storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modeling, and culvert analysis
functionality.
In AutoCAD: There is no stormwater design and analysis functionality so you would need to use another
dedicated software package to provide this functionality.
- Data Management/Team Coordination
Do you need your entire project team to work from the same consistent, up‐to‐date model so they stay
coordinated throughout all phases of the project? AutoCAD Civil 3D provides a scalable approach to data
management and team coordination that fits your specific needs. Using AutoCAD external references
and data shortcuts, project team members can share individual model elements such as surfaces,
alignments, and pipes and work off the same instance of a design object for multiple design tasks. If you
are looking for more advanced project management such as project‐level backups, user permissions,
archive control, and version control, Civil 3D 2009 includes Autodesk® Vault software, which performs
these and many other functions.
In AutoCAD: While AutoCAD allows drawings to be shared via AutoCAD external references or Autodesk
Vault software, it does not facilitate sharing of data at the individual project element level. As a result,
project teams cannot easily work on different parts of a design without the risk of getting out of synch.
- CAD and Design Standards
CAD and Design standards are an important component of a project, but setting up, maintaining, and
enforcing them can be time consuming. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 ships with an extensive library of
country‐specific CAD styles to control virtually every aspect of drawing display. And if these don’t fit
your needs, you can customize your own styles and standards to meet the specific needs of your
organization. The CAD, design styles, and standards functionality in Civil 3D can save you time and
minimize costly rework.
In AutoCAD: Styles functionality is not included so it is the responsibility of individual users to ensure
they are following company CAD standards. This often leads to inconsistency of deliverables and the
creation of additional layers that do not comply with company or jurisdictional standards.
- Evaluate Design Changes and Alternatives
Do you need to quickly understand the impact of changes and be able to evaluate design alternatives?
With AutoCAD Civil 3D, design and documentation are intelligently connected enabling you to deliver
higher‐quality designs and construction documentation faster. Make a change to your design and all
related design elements, annotation, and tables update automatically.
In AutoCAD: Creating multiple design iterations is time consuming and requires a lot of manual editing
and updating. And design changes can be equally time consuming since you need to manually ensure
vital project data is updated, such as spot elevations, tables, and station offset labels. Manual edits can
not only compromise a project schedule and budget, it can also result in errors and omissions.
- Production Drafting
Labeling and manual drafting is one of the most time consuming and error‐prone tasks of a project.
What if you could speed up this process and automatically create production sheets? With AutoCAD Civil
3D you can automatically generate production plans such as fully annotated section sheets, profiles,
grading plans, and more. And drafting can be generated across multiple drawings by using xrefs and
shortcuts. The result is a workflow that enables production sheets to use a single instance of the model,
and, if the model changes, all production sheets are automatically updated to reflect the changes.
In AutoCAD: As design s change you need to manually update production drafting. And since most
projects involve multiple labels on multiple layers, shown through several viewports, eleven the smallest change is labor intensive and time consuming.
- Communicate Design Intent
Most civil engineering projects require review and approval from various public agencies. This means that selling the design can be just a s important alas the design itself. AutoCAD Civil 3D provides integrated tools for quickly developing 3D renderings to clearly communicate design intent and create winning presentations. For example, when designing a road, Civil 3D automatically associates the appropriate render materials with the corridor model for quick visualization.
In AutoCAD: Renderings and fly-bys are time consuming tasks that require manual association of render materials and tedious rework when design changes are made.
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