Autodesk Civil 3D 2006

As of January 14, 2005, Autodesk will no longer offer Autodesk® Civil Design software as a stand alone product. It will now be sold as part of Autodesk Civil 3D Professional and under the name: Autodesk Civil 3D – Civil Design Companion 2006.

Autodesk Civil 3D – Civil Design Companion 2006 is an add-on to Autodesk® Land Desktop 2006 and extends Land Desktop's functionality with powerful tools that automate and streamline complex, time-consuming tasks. If you are new to the Autodesk Civil product offerings, be sure to check out Autodesk Civil 3D and Civil 3D Professional and get the details about this civil engineering application that uses a dynamic engineering model designed to increase your productivity.  

Faster Plan Production
Dynamic relationships extend to drafting and plan production. When you update a profile, Autodesk Civil 3D updates all labels and profile drafting. Labeling maintains its orientation; if you rotate a drawing, your labels remain upright. As a result, plans are more accurate and get completed faster.

Keep Your Standards High
Autodesk Civil 3D makes it easier to maintain drafting standards. Each object type has user-definable settings that control layer, color, font, label content, and more. The application also includes various style configurations that you can store in a drawing template, as well as tools to edit existing styles or create new ones.

Features

Based on AutoCAD Software
Autodesk® Civil 3D™ software is based on industry-leading AutoCAD® 2006 software. Work in a familiar graphical environment with drafting tools you already know and plot project documentation and plan sets with dependable accuracy and fidelity.

Points

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Create points using a variety of coordinate geometry (COGO) and graphical methods. Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 incorporates points as part of the engineering model, making them integral throughout the analysis and design process.

Surfaces

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Build surfaces from a variety of 3D source data. Analyze contours, slope, elevation, and watershed areas, and update contours, volumes, and surface analysis instantly when making surface edits. Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 updates surfaces when data is added or edited, and rebuilds the surface when data is removed.

Parcels

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Dynamic relationships mean that parcel collections are always up-to-date. Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 intelligently integrates parcels within a single topology, so a change to one parcel creates related changes in neighboring parcels.

Alignments

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The alignment object includes tangent, curve, and spiral elements and enables the addition of any labeling required in the finished draft. Editing with a tabular editor or graphical interface automatically updates the alignment’s labeling. Share alignment and profile data across drawings for use by multiple project team members.

Profiles

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Extract profiles of multiple surfaces based on alignment geometry. Automatically create the profile appearance and annotation based on the styles that you select. Update profile labeling and drafting dynamically.

Corridor Modeling

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Generate a dynamic model of any road, rail, or corridor project based on design elements, including alignments, profiles, superelevation, and criteria included in design subassemblies. Any change to any elements that were used to create the model result in updated corridor volumes, surfaces, sections, and other analysis and output. Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 enables real-time editing of individual stations or station ranges along the road.

Corridor Assemblies and Subassemblies

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Adhere to standards and maintain design consistency using your own library of subassemblies and assemblies.

Sections

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Extract and draft surface and corridor sections. Select sections at specific stations, at intervals along alignments, or at specific points, and create section plots for a single station or full section sheets.

Grading

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Combine multiple grading elements into one group to find solutions for complex grading problems. Grade into surface, elevation, distance, and adjacent grading objects. Balance cut/fill volumes dynamically for an entire site or a single grading object. Build a static or dynamic surface from grading groups.

Pipe Layout

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Lay out sanitary and storm drainage systems as dynamic, interactive networks. Make changes to pipes and structures using graphical as well as numeric input. Plot and complete final drafting of the pipe network in plan, profile, and section views, and share pipe network information, such as material and size, with external analysis applications.

Pipe Drafting

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Plot and complete final drafting of the pipe network in plan, profile, or section views. Data from the pipe network is used in labels. Subsequent changes to the pipe network automatically update the drafting.

Visualization

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Create photorealistic renderings directly from the 3D engineering model.

Autodesk Map 3D 2006 Foundation

Work with the familiar AutoCAD® feature set and graphical interaction. Use AutoCAD plotting and plan production capabilities built into Autodesk Map® 3D 2006.

Autodesk Civil 3D Professional

Make the move to Autodesk® Civil 3D™ at your own pace while keeping the Autodesk® Land Desktop and Autodesk® Civil Design functionality you need. Autodesk Civil 3D Professional combines Autodesk® Civil 3D™ 2006 and Autodesk® Civil 3D™ – Civil Design Companion 2006 in a single software bundle. The move to Civil 3D has never been simpler or more manageable.

What's included:

Autodesk Civil 3D 2006
Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 delivers the most advanced civil engineering design technology yet from Autodesk. It features a dynamic engineering model that makes iterative changes and what-if scenarios faster and easier, and it ensures that updates made in one place are reflected instantly throughout.

Autodesk Civil 3D – Civil Design Companion 2006
Autodesk Civil 3D – Civil Design Companion 2006 provides support for legacy Autodesk Civil Design customers so you can transition to Autodesk Civil 3D at your own pace. This product works with Autodesk® Land Desktop 2006 to add specialized civil design functionality for creating sanitary and storm systems, tackling complex grading scenarios, and completing road engineering plans quickly and efficiently.