In the realm of civil engineering, efficiency reigns supreme. CTC Software’s CIM Project Suite™ and CIM Manager Suite™ emerge as powerful allies, empowering Civil 3D® users to streamline workflows and conquer data management challenges. Let’s delve deeper into the functionalities of these remarkable suites and explore how they leverage Civil Information Modeling (CIM) principles.
CIM Project Suite: A Toolbox for Civil 3D Mastery
Imagine a comprehensive toolkit meticulously crafted to elevate your Civil 3D experience. That’s the essence of CIM Project Suite. It encompasses a rich array of features designed to expedite and simplify your tasks, encompassing:
- Grading: Effortlessly sculpt terrains with the Corridor Cleanup tool, meticulously eliminating surface, width, and slope targets from corridors, baselines, or regions.
- Sheet Production: Automate sheet generation using the Sheet Generator, a tool akin to Civil 3D’s Viewframes but offering the advantage of dynamic sheet updates.
- Corridors: The Corridor Suite empowers you to streamline corridor workflows. Corridor Cleanup tackles unwanted targets, while Corridor Merger consolidates multiple corridors, and Corridor Splitter facilitates the division of a single corridor. Corridor Mapper automates target assignment by mapping layers to subassemblies.
- Pipe Networks: Pipe Designer simplifies network design within Civil 3D drawings, providing a user-friendly spreadsheet editor. Pipe Planner empowers you to effortlessly load pipe networks into an in-app spreadsheet or export them to a separate spreadsheet file. Parts Tagger expedites the population of grate, casting, and other values across multiple pipes and structures.
- Surveying: Maintaining survey data is a breeze with Survey Sweeper, enabling the deletion of selected survey points and figures from drawings and survey databases.
Beyond these core functionalities, CIM Project Suite offers a treasure trove of additional features, including Feature Line to Alignment (for creating alignments and layout profiles from feature lines) and Parts Swapper (for swapping multiple parts, both structures and pipes, for alternatives).
CIM Manager Suite: Streamlining Civil 3D and AutoCAD Production
While CIM Project Suite focuses on design management, CIM Manager Suite sets its sights on production management for Civil 3D and AutoCAD. This suite offers a plethora of functionalities to automate tasks and bolster efficiency, including:
- Layer and Style Management: Save precious time and ensure consistency with automated layer and style creation, editing, and management.
- Task Automation: Repetitive tasks become a thing of the past with CIM Manager Suite’s automation capabilities.
- Change Tracking: Maintain meticulous control over project revisions with the suite’s change tracking features.
The benefits of leveraging CIM Manager Suite are undeniable. It streamlines workflows, minimizes errors, and empowers production teams to focus on higher-value tasks.
In conclusion, CTC Software’s CIM Project Suite and CIM Manager Suite equip Civil 3D users with the tools and functionalities to elevate their workflows and data management to new heights. By embracing these suites and the principles of Civil Information Modeling (CIM), civil engineers can unlock enhanced efficiency, improved accuracy, and a significant boost to project delivery.
