Civil engineering tools for infrastructure design
Autodesk® Infrastructure Design Suite is a BIM for Infrastructure design solution that combines intelligent, model-based tools to help you gain more accurate, accessible, and actionable insight. With unique access to the Autodesk infrastructure software portfolio, you can benefit throughout the execution and lifecycle of transportation, land, and water projects.
Civil engineers:
Better understand and communicate project risk
- Explore and communicate preliminary design concepts
- Get projects approved faster and help win work
- Promote greater visibility into project constructability
Maintain more consistent data, context, processes
- Aggregate data from a variety of formats
- Develop more consistent and accurate construction documentation
- More easily apply industry standards
Respond more quickly to change
- Gain flexibility to make design changes at any point
- Apply discipline-specific tools for a more streamlined process
- Receive live feedback from stakeholders
Urban planners:
Aggregate and analyze data more effectively
- Manage data from many sources
- Improve data quality
- Enhance insight into existing conditions
Analyze information to help inform decisions
- Conduct spatial analysis to help see trends
- Facilitate identification of priority locations
- Analyze impacts of new developments
More easily communicate project options
- Quickly model and visualize alternatives
- More effictively show intent with photorealistic visuals
- Create thematic maps to support reporting requirements
Utility designers:
Create more consistent designs
- Design in an Autodesk® AutoCAD® environment
- Improve accuracy with rules-based standards
- Work more quickly with templates and workflows
Optimize with analysis
- Calculate voltage drop and flicker
- Calculate underground cable tension
- Calculate overhead sag for wind and ice
Deliver more complete documentation
- Deliver documentation in a single package
- Provide more complete engineering data
- Automate bill of materials creation
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Engineering firm:
Help win new work
- Demonstrate a better understanding of project needs
- Create more realistic proposals of design alternatives
- More effectively communicate options
Minimize project risks
- Create visualizations to help validate design decisions
- Help reduce construction documentation errors
- Facilitate the identification of issues before construction
Improve profitability
- Use tools to decrease hours on fixed-cost projects
- More easily accommodate last-minute changes
- Support productivity with more consistent data
Government agency:
Produce better designs
- Help reduce errors with model-based tools
- Optimize with integrated analysis
- Minimize documentation errors
Improve coordination
- Share information with teams and stakeholders
- Generate documentation that is a by-product of the design
- Help identify issues earlier to reduce errors in the field
Achieve greater transparency
- Attract more competitive bids
- Improve cost estimate accuracy
- Better demonstrate impact with near-photorealistic visuals
Electric utility:
Promote design efficiency
- Improve knowledge transfer
- Optimize workflows to minimize rework
- Better incorporate industry design standards
Improve materials use
- Optimize materials with engineering analysis
- Improve design to construction processes
- Deliver more accurate estimates
Improve data confidence
- Help reduce time-consuming processes
- Minimize as-built backlogs
- Deliver design data to the enterprise
Construction firm:
Explore constructability virtually
- Aggregate data for whole-project review
- Better understand scope of labor and materials
- More effectively coordinate site and workflow planning
Improve cost reliability
- More rapidly generate material takeoffs
- Evaluate the cost of design alternatives
- Help resolve conflicts before construction
Better predict project outcomes
- Simulate schedules and logistics in 4D
- Assess and quantify scope changes
- More easily communicate plans to stakeholders
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