AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software enables you to deliver higher-quality transportation, land development, and environmental engineering projects faster.

The software’s purpose-built tools support building information modeling (BIM) processes and help reduce the time it takes to design, analyze, and implement changes. The result is that you can evaluate more what-if scenarios and optimize project performance.

Key Features in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

• Conceptual 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.
• Surveying - Survey functionality is fully integrated within AutoCAD Civil 3D, so you have a more consistent environment for all tasks.
• 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.
• Corridor Modeling - Corridor modeling combines horizontal and vertical geometry with customizable cross sectional components to create a parametrically defined, dynamic 3D model of roads and other transportation systems.
• Earthwork Calculations - More quickly process earth volumes between your existing and proposed surfaces using composite volume or average end area methods.
• Purpose-Built Tools for Road & Highway Design - Transportation-specific design tools within AutoCAD Civil 3D offer a more efficient way to design roads and highways. Build interactive intersection models that dynamically update.

System Requirements

Clear the way to better road design.

Avatech Solutions is your source for Autodesk road & highway solutions that help you drive transportation projects better, faster and more affordably than ever before.

You may have fewer resources to meet changing client demands and tighter deadlines; but with Autodesk road and highway solutions, you can be more efficient and even enhance your competitive advantage with a broader range of services. Autodesk solutions - with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® at their core - give you the power to build coordinated, data-rich information models before construction ever begins, so that you can create consistent transportation designs, explore multiple design iterations, and fix errors, all in a virtual environment. You'll benefit from superior construction predictability, with the ability to visualize and simulate your project with analysis tools to detect and repair clashes.

Clear the way to new opportunities with Avatech and Autodesk. Deliver projects better, faster, and more affordably with the Autodesk® solutions for road and highway design and analysis.

Change is Good, But Difficult
Moving to Civil 3D is not just another upgrade—it’s a “sea change” in the basic way you and your team work. The larger or more complex and diversified your organization is, the more difficult the transition can be. However, if Civil 3D is implemented properly, your team will work with greater cost efficiency than ever before.

Why it’s Risky to Go it Alone
The process changes that come with adopting Civil 3D can be challenging—but they’re necessary. “All’s well that ends well” only happens when you don’t make the mistake of underestimating the fundamental changes your firm will likely need to make. Can you go it alone? Yes ... but ... do you really want to? Your people need to concentrate on billable work, not learning new technology. Given enough time and resources, you could probably muscle through it, but consider this: Many of our customers come to us for implementation help after trying to go it alone—having lost time and money in the process.

Configuring Styles and Standards is Critical
Virtually everything is tied to your organization’s use of Civil 3D’s styles, settings, and features—software behavior, appearance, control, and ultimately the projects you create. The success of your design and engineering environment depends on properly setting up these crucial elements. While it might seem like a straightforward process, it’s not. Creating content and settings appropriate to your firm requires meticulous and time-consuming setup—it’s simply just hard work best left to those with a lot of experience doing it.

You Need Specialized Training
After software is installed and content and settings created, everybody needs to learn how to use it to be productive—they need to get up to speed on new processes and new capabilities and they need to do it fast so that billable work remains just that—billable.

Why Avatech?
Our team has led hundreds of Civil 3D implementations with organizations large, small, and everywhere in-between, which has made us experts in the technology, workflow, and necessary training and customization. Our implementation and specialized training strategies are field-tested and proven to get you up and running fast.