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CIVIL 3D
 Explore. Analyze. Optimize.
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011 software, the building information modeling (BIM) solution for civil engineering, helps project teams create, predict, and deliver transportation, land development, and environmental projects more efficiently. AutoCAD Civil 3D helps civil engineers explore more what-if scenarios and optimize project performance with visualization and analysis tools such as geospatial and stormwater analysis, quantity-takeoff, and interactive 3D simulations. The creation of better coordinated and more reliable design information enables delivery of higher-quality documentation and accurate 3D models for automated machine guidance during construction. BIM helps civil engineers minimize errors and omissions, make better decisions, shorten production time, and gain a competitive advantage.
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A Powerful Building Information Modeling Solution for Civil Engineering
Use an integrated process built on a coordinated, consistent, digital model for design, analysis, visualization, documentation, and construction.
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One Model. One Change. Multiple Updates. All Automatic.
Building information modeling (BIM) is an integrated process for exploring a project's key physical and functional characteristics digitally - before it's built. AutoCAD Civil 3D software is Autodesk’s building information modeling solution for civil engineering. The software creates coordinated, data-rich models that enable you to conduct analysis from the earliest stages of design; better visualize and simulate real-world appearance, performance, and cost; and document designs more accurately.
AutoCAD Civil 3D produces a single model, with intelligent and dynamic data, enabling you to more quickly make a design change at any stage of the process. Make better-informed decisions and choose design alternatives based on analytical and performance results. More quickly and efficiently produce visualizations that remain in sync with design changes as they are made. The model automatically reflects any changes to drafting and annotation throughout the project. |
Deliver More Innovative Project Solutions
AutoCAD Civil 3D offers a better way of designing, analyzing, and documenting
civil engineering projects. |
Surveying
Survey functionality is fully integrated in Civil 3D, so you have a more consistent environment for all tasks, including direct import of raw survey data, leastsquares adjustment, editing of survey observations, and automated creation of survey figures and surfaces. You can create and edit survey figure vertices interactively, and identify and edit crossing breaklines to avoid potential issues, resulting in points, survey figures, and surfaces that can be used throughout the project.
Surfaces and Grading
With Civil 3D, you can build surfaces from traditional survey data, such as points and breaklines. Utilize large data sets from aerial photogrammetry, laser scanning, and digital elevation models by taking advantage of the surface reduction tools. View the surface as contours or triangles, or create elevation and slope banding analysis. Use surfaces as a reference for creating intelligent objects that maintain dynamic relationships to the source data. Team members can use the powerful daylighting and grade projection tools to generate surface models for any type of grading projection.
Parcel Layout
The software enables you to generate parcels by converting existing AutoCAD® software entities or by using more flexible layout tools to automate the process. A change to one parcel is automatically reflected in neighboring parcels. Advanced layout tools include options for measuring frontage at an offset and laying out parcels by minimum depth and width.
Corridor Modeling
Corridor modeling combines horizontal and vertical geometric constraints with customizable cross sectional components called subassemblies to create a dynamic model of roads and other transportation systems. Use the included subassemblies - ranging from travel lanes, sidewalks, and ditches to complex lane
components - or create your own to match any
conceivable design standard.
Pipes
Use rules-based tools to lay out sanitary and storm drainage systems. Break or join existing pipe networks or make changes to pipe networks 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 information, such as material and size, with external analysis applications.
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Earthwork Calculations
More quickly process earth volumes between your existing and proposed surfaces using composite volume or average end area methods. Use the Autodesk civil engineering solution 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.
Criteria-Based Geometric Design
Quickly lay out plan and profile alignment geometry with design criteria based on AASHTO standards
or standards customized for clients' needs. Design
constraints alert users when standards violations
occur, providing immediate feedback so necessary
modifications can be made.
Purpose-Built Tools for Road and Highway Design
Transportation-specific design tools offer a more efficient way to design roads and highways. Build interactive intersection models that dynamically update. Focus on optimizing the design and know
the production drawings and annotations stay up to date. Lay out roundabouts more quickly, including signage and striping, based on common design standards.
Quantity Takeoff Analysis
Extract material quantities from corridor models, or assign material types to lightposts, landscaping, and more. Run reports, or utilize built-in pay item lists to
generate bid-ready contract documents. Make better
decisions about the cost of the project earlier in the design process with accurate quantity takeoff tools.
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Enjoy Higher-Quality Documentation and Better Coordination
Deliver more consistent construction documentation that remains synchronized even as design changes are made to the model. |
Production Drafting
Automatically generate production plans such as fully annotated section sheets, profiles, grading plans, and more. Most important, drafting can be generated across multiple drawings by using xrefs and data shortcuts. The result is a workflow that enables production sheets to use a single instance of the model. And if the model changes, you can more quickly synchronize all production sheets to reflect the update.
Sustainable Design
AutoCAD Civil 3D software helps make every project more sustainable. When the engineer has a robust model of the site conditions and design constraints and the power to evaluate alternatives, more innovative and environmentally sensitive designs can be considered. AutoCAD Civil 3D includes tools to assist with many aspects of recognized sustainability initiatives, such as LEED®, by providing analysis to study linkage, project orientation, stormwater management alternatives, and more.
Plan Production
Comprehensive tools assist with the layout of cross section and plan and profile sheets. Fully integrated with the AutoCAD software's Sheet Set Manager, the Plans Production wizard automates the layout of sheets and matchlines along alignments, and generates plan and profile sheets based on the layout. The finished product is a series of drawing sheets ready for final annotation and plotting.
Annotation
The software's annotation is derived directly from design objects or through external references, and updates automatically when the design changes. It also automatically responds to changes in drawing scale and view orientation, so labels update instantly when the plot scale is changed or rotated within different viewports.
Reporting
AutoCAD Civil 3D software provides more flexible, real-time, and extensible report generation. Because the data is derived directly from the model, reports can more easily be updated, providing quicker feedback as design changes are made.
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Drafting Styles and Standards
AutoCAD Civil 3D provides country-specific CAD styles to control many aspects of drawing display. Colors, linetypes, contour increments, labeling, and much more are fully controlled by styles.
Data Shortcuts and References
With data shortcuts and xrefs, project members can share model data such as surfaces, alignments,
and pipes, working off the same instance of a design object for multiple design tasks. Annotation can also be generated from the data shortcuts or directly through an xref to help production drafting remain in sync.
Advanced Data Management
For companies looking for advanced data management, the addition of Autodesk® Vault technology enhances data shortcut functionality with advanced change management, version control, user permissions, and archive control.
Design Review
Today, the engineering process is more complex than ever. Design review often involves team members who are not CAD software users yet are vital to the project. Publishing to DWF™ file format enables you to digitally extend design review to your team.
Multidiscipline Coordination
Import Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software building shells into AutoCAD Civil 3D to use information such as utility connection points, roof areas, and building entrances directly from architects. Similarly, transportation design engineers can pass information such as profiles, alignments, and surfaces directly to the structural engineers, to assist in the layout of bridges, box culverts, and other ransportation structures in Autodesk® Revit® Structure software. |
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Optimize Performance with Analysis and Visualization
Explore more what-if scenarios earlier in the design process and communicate your winning ideas with best-in-class 3D visualization tools. |
Stormwater Analysis and Simulation
Design and analyze stormwater systems with integrated simulation tools for collection systems, ponds, and culverts. Help reduce post-development runoff, and prepare reports to support sustainability requirements for stormwater quantity and quality. Evaluate more design alternatives, including innovative green best management practices to create a more environmentally sensitive and visually appealing design. Prepare more accurate construction documents, including hydraulic and energy grade lines, to assist in evaluating the design and helping to ensure public safety.
Geospatial Analysis and Mapping
AutoCAD Civil 3D includes geospatial analysis and
mapping capabilities to support engineering-based
workflows. Analyze spatial relationships between
drawing objects. Extract or create new information
by overlaying two or more topologies. Create and
use buffers to select features within the specified
buffer distance of other features. Use publicly
available geospatial information to assist with site
selection and better understand design constraints
at the proposal stage of a project. Generate robust
mapping exhibits to help meet requirements for
sustainable design.
Point Clouds
Create point clouds in AutoCAD Civil 3D using
data from LIDAR. Import and visualize point cloud
information; stylize point data based on LAS
classifications, RGB, elevation, and intensity; and
use data to create surfaces, perform site surveys,
and digitize as-built features for civil engineering
design projects.
Sustainable Design
AutoCAD Civil 3D software can help to make
civil engineering projects more sustainable. By
combining the robust model of the site conditions
and design constraints with the powerful ability
to evaluate alternatives, you can consider more
innovative and environmentally sensitive designs.
AutoCAD Civil 3D includes tools to assist with
many aspects of recognized sustainability
initiatives, such as LEED®, by providing analysis
to study linkage, project orientation, stormwater
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Visualization
Create more powerful visualizations that give stakeholders an opportunity to better envisage the project before it is built. Produce visualizations directly from the model for several design alternatives to help better understand the impact of the design on the community and the surrounding environment. Publish the model to Google Earth™ mapping service for even greater understanding of the project in context. Make near photorealistic renderings of your models using Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. Simulations using the Civil 3D model can be created in Autodesk® Navisworks® software, which can help project stakeholders better understand how the project will look and perform once built.
64-bit support
AutoCAD Civil 3D supports 64-bit operating
systems, enabling the software to handle larger
projects and improving performance and stability
for memory-intensive tasks.
AutoCAD Platform
AutoCAD Civil 3D is built on the AutoCAD® platform, one of the world's leading CAD programs. Leverage the millions of professionally trained AutoCAD users worldwide to share and complete projects faster. AutoCAD software's DWG® file format enables you to save and share files with confidence. DWG technology from Autodesk is the more accurate, and reliable way to store and share design data. |
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