Autodesk® Civil 3Dª 2006 softwareÕs powerful dynamic engineering model means that changes made in one place are reflected instantly throughout your entire project. Design elements, visualization, analyses, and plans stay in perfect sync, so accuracy is maintained as drawing submittals move faster from concept to completion.

Overview :

Better Designs in Less Time
Explore conceptual proposals and complete final designs faster using Autodesk® Civil 3Dª 2006 software. Dynamic, real-time interaction between objects creates a more responsive, flexible design experience that protects accuracy and keeps all elements in sync.

Work as an Integrated, Multiple-Person Design Team
Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 introduces support for multiuser, simultaneous access to points, surfaces, alignments, and profiles so teams collaborate efficiently and effectively throughout the design and plan production process. Share an alignment across multiple drawings and customize each instanceÕs annotation and object appearance as needed. If the master alignment changes, every related drawing updates accordingly without the need for manual redrafting. Plan and profile sheets remain perfectly in sync, and the team can collaborate in a truly integrated environment.

Sharpen Your Competitive Edge
Quickly develop and evaluate a variety of design proposals and then move through final delivery of construction documentation to gain a competitive edge that can help you win more business. Autodesk Civil 3D integrates the drafting capabilities of AutoCAD® software with dynamic, relationship-based civil engineering functionality. ItÕs a powerful civil engineering solution that delivers design and drafting functionality that can increase productivity, reduce costs, and help you provide better service to your clients.

A Powerful Civil Engineering Platform
Autodesk Civil 3D is a robust development platform with a rich application programming interface (API) that enables you to build customized solutions. This open environment enables you to add specific functions that you need for your daily work, and means that third-party software development can provide incremental products that extend Civil 3D for use in specialty markets. Take advantage of its common, accessible data model to help you streamline your process.

Super Model
The power of Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 lies in its dynamic engineering model. The model contains all core geometry and maintains intelligent relationships between design objects such as points, surfaces, parcels, roads, and grading. Tables, object labels, and various analysis displays derive from the model, so if any part of the model changes, all associated parts are instantly and dynamically updated. For example, change the horizontal road alignment, and profiles, road model, section plots, volumes, proposed contours, and submittal drafting are updated automatically. Updates are not just visual representations of changes. They are integrated directly into the core data contained in your model, ensuring that edits are reflected throughout your project.

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 3Dª 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
  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
  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
  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
  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 alignmentÕs labeling. Share alignment and profile data across drawings for use by multiple project team members.
• Profiles
  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
  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
  Adhere to standards and maintain design consistency using your own library of subassemblies and assemblies.
• Sections
  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
  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
  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
  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
  Create photorealistic renderings directly from the 3D engineering model.