There are a lot of sophisticated workflows and dialogs (some of the most complicated dialogs I have seen!) used to automate, or at least streamline, tricky things like developing the path of a road, which has defined components (two lanes, boulevard, sidewalks, and daylighting grade) which optimally interacts with the existing grade. It differs from Revit in that it is still very much a file-based system where only one person can work in a file at a time, so a project is typically broken up into separate pieces, for example, grading, alignments, pipe networks, etc.Ĭivil 3D is a tool designed on top of AutoCAD for civil engineers. Similar in some ways to Revit, Civil 3D revolves around a 3D representation of the project, where individual elements hold information. I helped my previous firm implement this product shortly after it came out in 2005 prior to that, they were using Autodesk Land Desktop. AutoCAD Civil 3DĪutoCAD Civil 3D is Autodesk’s platform for survey and civil design and documentation.

Let’s dig in and take a closer look at each of these topics.

The topics that will be covered in this article include: With this information, teams can improve collaboration and enhance model fidelity across a project’s design team. The goal of this article is to offer a high-level overview of important options to help bridge the gap in some areas, and offer up new solutions to previously overwhelming tasks one might wish to perform in Revit to produce high fidelity site models. This is not entirely surprising, as a lot of these tasks are not always performed by architects, MEP, or structural engineers. However, stepping just outside the building, and considering civil, site and landscape architecture tools and workflows, that same group might not be as familiar with some of the newer options for these design tasks. When it comes to the Autodesk ecosystem, those involved in designing buildings tend to know a lot about the Revit-centric offerings.

Revit for structural engineers