Moving to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 If you are still using AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Land Desktop Companion 2009 software for your surveying needs, there has never been a better time to make the switch to AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software. Today’s business climate is placing unprecedented demands on civil engineers and surveyors to produce higher-quality projects faster, and for less cost to their clients. There are an increasing number of obstacles to meeting these demands, like additional agency review fees and time loss due to plan checking, cleaning data, addressing agency comments, and making design changes. The threat of losing clients and projects has never been greater as the number of suppliers continues to outpace the number of clients needing civil engineering and surveying services. If you have been using AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2009 software to try and meet these challenges, it is time to make the switch to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013.

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A great deal of time can be wasted waiting for work to be redone that was overwritten by others. In order to work more efficiently, civil engineering project teams need to stay coordinated with consistent, reliable information. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 helps to ensure that teams are working from the same consistent, up-to-date project model from survey through construction documentation.

• Team members can more easily share model data—such as surfaces, alignments, and pipes—and use one design object for multiple design tasks. For example, if a surveyor creates the existing ground surface, designers can connect to that data in parallel for parcel layout. Drafters can then generate annotation from the data shortcuts, or directly through an xref, to help keep production drafting in sync.

•The dynamic nature of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software enables concurrent workflows, where designers can begin working through preliminary concepts while surveyors are collecting additional data. As information is added from more sources, parametric elements and dynamic labels automatically update to better reflect the refined design. The entire team can build their piece of the project while the other elements come together, instead of having to use a linear workflow that can be prone to bottlenecks and false starts.

> Automate the creation of construction documents

Once design decisions are made, teams can spend hours and sometimes even days creating construction documents, implementing last minute design changes, or redoing drawings. Often, comments come back from the review agency indicating that labels don’t match the analysis report or tables, other drawing elements don’t match from sheet to sheet, or certain elements are unreadable. AutoCAD Civil 3D can help teams meet the unique documentation standards and requirements of different clients, and help ensure that last minute design changes don’t affect the project schedule or the accuracy of the construction documentation.

•With AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software, documentation is a by-product of the design. The dynamic, digital model that is integral to Civil 3D enables engineering teams to watch as design changes ripple through a project, including its documentation—an automated process that helps ensure the design and plan sheets are consistent, up-to-date, and accurate. Use xrefs and data shortcuts to generate drafting across multiple drawings. For most model changes, the construction documentation is automatically synchronized to reflect all updates.

•AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software provides a framework for customizing your own styles and standards to help meet the specific needs of your clients. Use the extensive library of country-specific CAD styles to control almost every aspect of drawing display, such as colors, line types, contour increments, and robust labeling. Generate construction documents using the styles-based drafting environment to automate the creation of drafting while helping to maintain drafting standards.

Making the switch to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013from AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2009

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Stay better coordinated with more consistent, reliable information

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> Integrate design and analysis using just one software

Teams regularly spend time recreating various aspects of the project design in separate analysis software. Different aspects of civil designs must be analyzed at various stages of a civil project. The designer needs a good understanding of slopes, earthwork volumes, stormwater management, and more. Analysis results must be considered as a whole in order to make design decisions that satisfy the project requirements. Civil 3D helps eliminate redundancy in your workflow by analyzing the model you’ve already built. Designers can get feedback in real time, while there is still an opportunity to refine the design and make changes.

• Analyze pre- and post development hydrologic conditions using integrated hydraulic and hydrology tools.

• Analyze your AutoCAD Civil 3D pipe network models, culverts, and channels using Autodesk® Storm and Sanitary Analysis 2013 software to help make design decisions. Automate the generation of robust reports for submittal to review agencies.

• The mass haul and earthwork features enable contractors and engineers to more effectively plan the movements, amounts, and placements of material during construction. As designs are changed, Civil 3D can help to quickly analyze earthwork balance points, determine the amount and direction of material to be moved, and identify optimal locations for borrow pits and dump sites.

• Directly import customized pay item information into AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software for use in assigning pay item values to objects in the drawing, including AutoCAD entities and AutoCAD Civil 3D model elements. Automatically calculate quantities and generate reports based on pay item values.

> Explore multiple design alternatives and incorporate modifications faster

AutoCAD Civil 3D enables you to explore multiple options, ultimately helping you produce an optimized design. The integration of imagery and geospatial data assists in identifying an optimal solution early in the overall process, helping to save time and money.

• Import geospatial data, such as soil types, land use information, and environmental constraints to more quickly analyze and better understand the probable impacts of different alternatives.

• Use imagery and terrain models from Google Earth™ mapping services and other sources to help visualize the ecosystem of a project.

• Most project data—such as survey information, surfaces, profiles, horizontal alignments, and corridor models, as well as related annotations and labels—have predictable relationships with other elements in your design. This results in the dynamic updating of model elements when related elements are changed.

• AutoCAD Civil 3D includes terrain shaping tools that support large-surface models while maintaining dynamic relationships to source data, including contours, break lines, corridor models, and grading objects.

• Use surfaces as references for creating profiles, sections, and corridors. Any changes to the source data result in automatic updates to surfaces and references, which helps you save time and reduce errors. This means that several alternatives can be evaluated quickly since immediate feedback is given, helping to ensure important design constraints are held, such as project limits staying within existing rights of way.

> Save time with built-in standards validation

Standards are the universal language of civil engineering. Almost all projects need to respect local constraints for steep slopes, pipe layout, minimum parcel size and road frontage, sight distances, road curvature, and more. Additionally, construction documents need to use the appropriate line types, line weights, and symbology to be readable for construction and accepted by regulating agencies. Designers can make changes with more confidence because AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software helps them to meet the design criteria mandated by the customer and various third parties.

• AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 software has built-in tools that help reference and report violations of industry requirements, like AASHTO and TAC standards.

• Corridor models can be built using assemblies with parametric constraints based on agency requirements.

• Customize tables to help you adhere to unique standards that are enforced by local agencies.

• Maximize parcel yield and green space using built-in tools to help meet local standards for size, frontage, and setback. Use interactive editing tools to preview changes and refine layouts without your established constraints before deciding on a final design.

• Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis, included with Civil 3D, is based on industry-leading hydrologic models such as EPA SWMM Version 5, TR-20, TR-55, and other regional models, which facilitates submittal of stormwater management reports in many jurisdictions.