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Autodesk Civil 3D: Comprehensive detailed design and documentation software for civil infrastructure

Autodesk Civil 3D is a comprehensive civil engineering design and documentation software that empowers professionals to efficiently plan, design, and manage transportation, land development, and environmental projects. With its robust suite of tools, Civil 3D streamlines workflows, facilitating the creation of accurate 3D models and precise engineering documentation. From conceptual design through construction, this powerful software enables engineers, designers, and drafters to optimize project performance, enhance collaboration, and improve decision-making processes. With features tailored for civil infrastructure projects, Autodesk Civil 3D remains an indispensable solution for modern engineering firms, ensuring the successful execution of complex projects while adhering to industry standards and regulations.
  • Overview
  • Benefits
  • Project Types
  • Capabilities
Overview

What is Autodesk Civil 3D?

Autodesk Civil 3D® design software empowers civil engineers to meet complex infrastructure challenges in a 3D model-based environment.

  • Accelerate design and documentation
  • Advance design automation
  • Improve collaboration and coordination
Benefits

Why use Civil 3D?

Design more efficiently
Improve design quality with a dynamic 3D model–based design environment and design-driven documentation environment.
Streamline collaboration
Reduce errors and rework by exchanging data across multidisciplinary teams while maintaining standards and accuracy.
Leverage interoperability tools
Share data and models freely between products using the common IFC format(s).
Project Types

Explore Civil 3D by project type

Civil 3D includes purpose-built tools for critical civil engineering disciplines. See how Civil 3D can help you design and build better roads and motorways, sites and rail projects.
More efficient workflows for better project outcomes
Accelerate design, optimisation and documentation of road and motorway projects.
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Create comprehensive, accurate site designs
Prepare and shape ground surfaces for roadway, buildings, subdivision, and other civil infrastructure projects.
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Efficiently model and analyse rail projects
Accelerate planning, design and delivery of transit stations and rail networks.
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Capabilities

What you can do with Autodesk Civil 3D

Streamline your design and documentation workflows

Deliver design and construction documentation for road and motorway, site design, rail and bridge projects. Reduce overall design time with faster modelling for surfaces, corridors, terrain and more.
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Advance workflows with GIS and cloud collaboration

Incorporate GIS data into your design with sustainability and customer satisfaction in mind. View and share data securely in the cloud to improve collaboration with all project stakeholders.
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Improve project coordination

Seamlessly exchange data across multidisciplinary teams while maintaining standards and accuracy to reduce rework and improve customer satisfaction.
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Architecture Engineering Construction Collection
Save when you buy Civil 3D as part of a collection

Connect tools for context modelling and concepting with detailed design, analysis and optimisation for better decision making. Better coordinate horizontal and vertical design projects. Support multi-discipline processes with a cloud-based common data environment.

*Compared with purchasing each product separately.

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Benefits of Civil 3D as part of the AEC Collection
Road and motorway design
Deliver comprehensive road and motorway designs more efficiently with the AEC Collection.
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Bridge design
Connect Civil 3D road geometry to parametric bridge modelling tools in InfraWorks and custom Revit structures.
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