With Autodesk® Civil 3D®, you can build on AutoCAD®’s capabilities to optimize the infrastructure design process from conception to close. Bygone are the days of trial and error where engineers, relying solely on AutoCAD, inadvertently wasted materials and time on digitized plans that couldn’t survive real-world conditions.
Engineers are excited about Autodesk Civil 3D’s far-reaching possibilities. Understandably, some seasoned engineers may be reluctant to use this new software; but Autodesk’s Assistant offers immediate support for specific questions about Autodesk Civil 3D.
Below, you can explore the features of Autodesk Civil 3D for yourself, including its cutting-edge Civil Information Modeling (CIM) technology, which supplies engineers with even more control over their infrastructure plans.
How Does Autodesk Civil 3D Enrich Engineers’ Infrastructure Projects?
Autodesk Civil 3D offers civil engineers enhanced capabilities for the design, data collection, and multidisciplinary cooperation necessary to transpose an infrastructure model into an actuality.
Design
For design, Autodesk Civil 3D provides optimization, accelerated changes, and synchronous review within the program. The software’s optimization is mobilized by cloud-linked BIM and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, which uses advanced algorithms to automate designs and expedite changes to your model and site layout. The program also optimizes the grading evaluation process, saving you the grueling task of identifying and analyzing grading objects that will affect your model; grading optimization utilizes both algorithmic directions and limits you establish.
Further, the design attributes of Autodesk Civil 3D give you the freedom to set and save your own design options and review your work in real time.
Data Collection
Autodesk Civil 3D is programmed to document and maintain consistent data as you develop an infrastructure design. This data is critical not only for recording information that will be inspected by the project’s supervisor for the feasibility, expense, and legal compliance of your design but also for your immediate use.
Data preservation during the design process allows you to gather “cloud points” by means of BIM. These cloud points help you measure aspects of the land on which construction will take place, as well as inform your model on the current environmental conditions that could impact your design.
Multidisciplinary Cooperation
Infrastructure projects are team-oriented, requiring engineers to collaborate with architects, construction managers, contractors, legal counsel, and other third-party stakeholders. With Autodesk Civil 3D, all partners on the project can easily correspond about their progress through the internet-based BIM system.
A project dashboard, accessible to all members of the infrastructure plan’s partnership, facilitates rapid communication of project changes and coordination among the interested parties. Autodesk Civil 3D also helps to improve your delivery of a finished design by reporting the related data that you’ve collected. Your completed model can then be reviewed for quality, legality, and ESG, so construction workers can break ground.
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