Tools and Add-ons for Autodesk® Civil 3D®

Kenneth L. Driscol Application Consultant

Applied Software

To make the most of Autodesk Civil 3D, there are a number of programs and plug-ins available. These tools can help to increase collaboration with team members, provide new value-added functions and further extend the capabilities of what you can do with Civil 3D.

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Outlined below are some of the most popular and useful tools:

Google Earth Tools in Civil 3D Google’s massive database of geospatial data

includes street mapping, satellite and aerial photo-graphs, digital terrain model data, and more. This incredible resource is available for browsing through a free utility called Google Earth. Imagery and terrain models accessible through Google Earth can be im-ported directly into Civil 3D, making for an extremely useful feature set.

Publish Civil 3D Data to Google Earth One way to create a 3D, interactive model of your Civil 3D design that can be viewed outside of AutoCAD is to publish it to the Google Earth utility. Although there are other ways to create 3D viewable files (such as 3D DWF), one advantage to publishing to Google Earth is that your model becomes framed by surrounding Google Earth imagery, giving it valuable context.

You can download Google Earth from http://earth.google.com

Storm Water Design and Analysis AutoCAD Civil 3D includes three extensions for storm water hydraulics and hydrology

including storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modeling and culvert analy-sis. These extensions add important technology to AutoCAD Civil 3D, enabling you to address crucial parts of your workflow and increase the value of your design information for predicting project performance.

Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D Hydraflow Storm Sewers Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D is an easy-to-use, full-featured

storm sewer design and analysis package. Automatically design pipes, inverts, slopes and inlets based on user-defined parameters and interactively modify and optimize your system in real time, assuring your design will have the high-est hydraulic efficiency at the lowest possible cost.

Hydraflow Hydrographs Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D Hydraflow Hydrographs Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D is a comprehensive solution for watershed analysis and detention pond design. Use Hydraflow Hydrographs Extension for simple site designs, complex watershed modeling and regional drainage studies, pre- and post development studies, detention pond design and submitting agency-ready reports.

Hydraflow Express Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D Hydraflow Express Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D provides flexible calcula-tors for solving a wide variety of everyday hydraulics and hydrology problems

for culverts, open channels, inlets, hydrology and weirs. Just select the task you want from a toolbar, fill in the blanks in the simple interface and solve. Hydraflow Express Extension quickly produces informative graphs, rating curves and professional, easy-to-read reports.

You must be on subscription to use these tools, which can be downloaded from the Autodesk Subscription Center. Page 2 Tools and Add-ons for Autodesk Civil 3D

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Leica X-change provides a seamless link between Leica System 1200 surveying equipment and the Autodesk® Civil 3D® environment.

Get Leica X-change at http://www.leica-geosystems.com/corporate/en/downloads/lgs_11499.htm

Transoft Solutions develops, markets and supports innovative, productivity-ori-ented software for engineering and design professionals worldwide. Their products

provide templates and tools for transportation design initiatives such as parking lot design, turning templates and transportation planning.

www.transoftsolutions.com

Rapid Design Visualization is a breakthrough technology enabling you to quickly and affordably create a 3D engineering design simulation. A unique, interactive,

web-enabled design review tool, it effortlessly transforms 3D CAD data into an eas-ily understandable visualization. Once the RDV user interface is integrated into your design and drafting software, visualization becomes part of your daily workflow. Indis-pensable for producing a team effort, RDV’s solutions lets project members effortlessly analyze, communicate and collaborate in a way they never have before.

www.rdvsystems.com

CGS Civil 3D extensions is a collection of professional Civil Engineering Software Tools and Add-ons for AutoCAD Civil 3D. It contains several roadway, earthworks

and sewage systems design features not found in Civil 3D. With CGS extensions you can expand the capabilities of Civil 3D, making it more powerful and easier to use.

http://www.cgscivil3d.com/

Streamline your roadway design with VESTRA Civil 3D. Combine Autodesk Civil 3D with the power of VESTRA Civil 3D, and you could shave as much as 80 per-

cent off your engineering time. This plug-in includes the features your road design work requires, including automatic construction of intersections, analysis of vehicle paths, or design of all existing categories of roundabouts, to full reconstruction of roads.

You can learn more at www.akgsoftware.com

Trimble® Link® for Autodesk® Civil 3D® enables you to transfer survey and design

data between the Civil 3D database and Trimble field systems including the TSC1® , TSCe® , Trim-ble ACU, Trimble CU Controller, Geodimeter® CU600 controller, and supported Nikon® instru-ments. It further supports the use of Trimble site controller systems.

You can download it at www.trimble.com/link.shtml

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Kenneth L. Driscol has been involved in civil engineering projects for seventeen years. In addition to his civil engineer-ing background, he also has been involved with field surveying and electronic data reduction. During his entire professional career he has used Autodesk products. For the last four years, he has been an Application Specialist concentrating in Land Desktop, Civil 3D, Surveying, Map 3D, and GIS instructions. Mr. Driscol is Applied Software’s Senior Civil instructor and pro-vides software demonstrations, custom and standardized classroom training, mentoring, technical support.