Key features of Civil 3D

Get started quickly with the new Help Centre and gain greater visibility into your optimisation process. (video: 1:55 min.)

Find the pressure parts you need quickly with new Search by Keyword, show property set data in profile view labels and experience other improvements to editing pressure pipes in profile. (video: 1.24 min.)

Civil 3D 2023 adds additional property set data for corridor solids based on BIM mandates. It also adds filter corridor target options, targeting multiple surfaces and dynamically targeting of specific layers. (video: 2.18 min.)

Create rail cant labels at any station along an alignment, manage catalogues more easily and use the US turnout catalogue that is now included in Civil 3D.

Add summaries to tables and quantities and customise row heights for tables. (video: 1.14 min.)

Create surfaces composed of a combination of points, breaklines, boundaries and contours with support for TIN, Grid  Cropped and Corridor surfaces.

Use a large collection of points acquired by laser scanners and other capture technologies to create digital representations of existing conditions and structures. Import the point data to Civil 3D to generate a 3D model to be used in your design project.

Work with editing tools that add edits to a surface definition as edit operations and not to any of the existing surface data components.

A display tool that enables you to block out areas of a surface and prevent them from being displayed or to render a section of the surface using a specified render material.

Analyse how water flows along and off a surface to better determine drain targets and watersheds.

Use the Volumes Dashboard to calculate and analyse volume surfaces and bounded areas within those surfaces.

Conduct surface-related analyses, including contour, directions, elevations, slopes, slope-arrows, watersheds and water drop path.

Manage objects (parcels, alignments, gradings and feature lines) with a common topology in a site collection.

Streamline the download, creation, analysis and adjustments of field-captured survey data.

More efficiently process field-captured survey data to create an intelligent base map in Civil 3D.

Visualise and analyse geotechnical data then use that data directly in the Civil 3D design model.

Grading tools and commands facilitate the efficient design of finished ground surfaces.

Automate the process for conducting grading design studies for land areas based on established design project criteria.

Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for highways and roads. Build rail track corridor models, incorporating designs for switches, turnouts and cant calculations.

Extract corridor feature lines with ease to use as a basis for creating grading objects or other design projects. Extracting feature lines can be done all at once, selected one-by-one or by selecting a subset within a corridor region or a polygon.

Efficiently use assemblies and subassemblies to establish the basic building blocks of a carriageway or other alignment-based design.

Create dynamic 3-way, 4-way or roundabout intersections.

Model roundabouts according to defined standards. Build your roundabouts into existing corridor models, enabling your design to update automatically when you make changes to the corridor alignments.

Efficiently draw 2D and 3D models of utility systems, such as storm sewers, sanitary sewers and more.

Perform a variety of stormwater management tasks, including storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modelling and culvert, channel and inlet analysis.

Generate 3D models of pressure networks, such as water transmission systems.

Create plan-only, plan and profile, profile-only and section sheets by including multiple plan or profile views on a single sheet.

Extract and report material volumes and analyse quantities from materials and sectional or profile information.

Use the Dynamo visual scripting environment to develop routines that automate repetitive design tasks and expedite workflows. (video: 1.16 min.)

Manage the staggering volume of design data in Civil 3D models in this all-in-one hub. Easily review, validate, report, export and edit models. Gain a better understanding of your design and more efficiently control the distribution of geometric information to project stakeholders.

Create and share data shortcuts for corridors.

Create professional-quality visualisations.

Import and export AutoCAD solids to IFC files.

Bring context modelling and conceptual design into your design process. Make better decisions with a real-world context of existing conditions, consider alternatives more efficiently and complete detailed design and documentation in Civil 3D.