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What you can do with Civil 3D
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Streamline your design and documentation workflows Deliver comprehensive design and construction documentation for roadways, site designs, rail systems, and bridges. Reduce overall design time with faster modeling of surfaces, corridors, terrain, and more. |
Enhance workflows with GIS and cloud collaboration Incorporate GIS data into your designs to promote sustainability and customer satisfaction. Securely view and share data in the cloud, improving collaboration among all project stakeholders. |
Improve project coordination Effortlessly exchange data across multidisciplinary teams while maintaining accuracy and standards, reducing rework, and increasing customer satisfaction. |
What's New
Explore the latest features in Civil 3D civil engineering design software.
Note: Some Civil 3D features are available only through the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Collection.
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Key Features
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Site and survey workflows Download, create, analyze, and adjust survey data, and transfer field-captured data to the office |
Terrain modeling Create digital topography models for land-use studies, transportation system planning, and water flow simulations |
Corridor modeling Create dynamic, data-rich corridor models for highways, roads, and rail tracks |
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Intersection design Create dynamic models of 3-way (T-shaped) or 4-way intersections, as well as roundabouts |
Drainage design and analysis Manage stormwater and sanitary sewer design. Define pipeline paths optimized with hydraulic and hydrologic analysis |
Pressure networks Design horizontal and vertical pressure network layouts; model deflected-curve pipe segments and use design and depth checks |
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Plan production and documentation Quickly create construction documents from drawings, including plan/profile, plan-only, profile-only, and section sheets |
Interoperability Civil 3D supports importing, exporting, and linking with commonly used CAD formats, including IFC, and connects with Esri ArcGIS and Bentley data |
Design automation Use visual programming to generate scripts that automate repetitive and complex tasks, including electrification and signaling |
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Geotechnical modeling Visualize and analyze subsurface data and incorporate it directly into the Civil 3D design model |
Materials and quantities Use materials and sectional or profile information to create reports for volumes, comparing design and existing surfaces, and quantity takeoff |
Bridge design Coordinate workflows more efficiently across various disciplines involved in complex bridge design projects |
More features
Surface Modeling
- Surface modeling tools - Create surfaces using a combination of points, breaklines, boundaries, and contours with support for TIN, Grid, and Cropped, and Corridor surfaces.
- Point cloud tools - Use a large collection of points acquired by laser scanners and other capture technologies to create digital representations of existing conditions and structures. Import the point data to Civil 3D to generate a 3D model for your design project.
- Surface editing - Work with editing tools that add edits to a surface definition as operations rather than modifying existing surface data components.
- Surface masks - A display tool that allows 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 material.
- Surface watersheds - Analyze water flow along and off a surface to better determine drainage targets and watersheds.
- Surface volumes - Use the Volumes Dashboard to calculate and analyze volume surfaces and bounded areas within those surfaces.
- Surface analysis - Conduct surface-related analysis, including contour, directions, elevations, slopes, slope-arrows, watersheds, and water drop path.
Site and survey
- Site design tools - Manage objects (parcels, alignments, gradings, and feature lines) within a common topology in a site collection.
- Survey tools - Streamline the download, creation, analysis, and adjustments of field-captured survey data.
- Field-to-finish workflow - More efficiently process field-captured survey data to create an intelligent base map in Civil 3D.
- Geotechnical modeling - Visualize and analyze geotechnical data and incorporate it directly into the Civil 3D design model.
- Grading tools - Grading tools and commands facilitate the efficient design of finished ground surfaces.
- Grading Optimization (AEC Collection only) - Automate the process of conducting grading design studies for land areas based on established project criteria.
Corridor modeling
- Corridor design tools - Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for highways and roads. Build rail track corridor models, incorporating designs for switches, turnouts, and cant calculations.
- Export corridor data - Easily extract corridor feature lines for use as a basis for creating grading objects or other design projects. Extract feature lines all at once, select them individually, or choose a subset within a corridor region or polygon.
- Assemblies and subassemblies - Efficiently use assemblies and subassemblies to establish the basic building blocks of a roadway or other alignment-based design.
- Intersections and roundabouts - Create dynamic 3-way, 4-way, or roundabout intersections.
- Advanced roundabout design - Model roundabouts according to defined standards. Incorporate your roundabouts into existing corridor models, enabling your design to update automatically when corridor alignments change.
Storm and sanitary
- Modeling pipe networks - Efficiently draw 2D and 3D models of utility systems, including storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and more.
- Hydraulics and hydrology tools - Perform a variety of stormwater management tasks, such as storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modeling, and culvert, channel, and inlet analysis.
- Pressure network design - Generate 3D models of pressure networks, such as water transmission systems.
Plan production and documentation
- Plan production and construction documentation - Create plan-only, plan and profile, profile-only, and section sheets by including multiple plan or profile views on a single sheet.
- QTO and earthwork calculations - Extract and report material volumes and analyze quantities from materials and sectional or profile information.
Productivity and automation
- Dynamo for Civil 3D - Use the Dynamo visual scripting environment to develop routines that automate repetitive design tasks and expedite workflows.
- Project Explorer for Civil 3D (AEC Collection only) - Manage the extensive design data in Civil 3D models through this all-in-one hub. Easily review, validate, report, export, and edit models. Gain a better understanding of your design and efficiently control the distribution of geometric information to project stakeholders.
Interoperability
- Corridor data shortcut (DREF) - Create and share data shortcuts for corridors.
- 3ds Max interoperability - Create professional-quality visualizations.
- IFC import and export - Import and export AutoCAD solids to IFC files.
- Exchange data with InfraWorks - Incorporate context modeling and conceptual design into your design process. Make better decisions with real-world context of existing conditions, efficiently consider alternatives, and complete detailed design and documentation in Civil 3D.
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