Importance of AutoCAD, Revit and STAAD Pro for Civil Engineers

A civil engineers should contain adequate working knowledge in AutoCAD to make drawing smarter. Knowledge of other programs like Revit and STAAD Pro are also very crucial for other disciplines.AutoCAD: Both AutoCAD and Civil 3D play an important role for making efficient civil engineering design. These programs facilitate you to generate quality plan sets. On the other hand, working knowledge of AutoCAD is not essential for construction engineers.

The design aggregation and documentation tools, which are in-built into AutoCAD, enhance productivity as well as simplify your design and documentation workflows and accelerate projects from design to completion whereas automate the tiresome manual drafting tasks.

AutoCAD allows to produce surfaces, solids, and offset curves dynamically and manipulate them with context-sensitive PressPull operations. 3D models are directly imported into AutoCAD from different types of applications, like SolidWorks, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Rhinoceros, and NX products and services to easily generate intelligent 2D views. Point Cloud tools facilitates you to import scanned objects with up to 2 billion data points. Physical 3D prototypes of your designs are instantly formed with AutoCAD's 3D printing capabilities.

Revit: Revit is an useful software for architects and other building professionals that can be used for architectural design and documentation. Revit facilitates the users to produce a perfect and detailed building model in quickest possible time.
Revit empowers the civil engineers to render the best performance with the creation of virtual illustration of building products. Starting from the Design Development & Coordination, 3D Modeling, Drawing Set Creation to Quantity Take-off, civil engineers can obtain the separate product specifications of the building which range from the color, tolerance, cost and other info. All these are essential to take informed decisions.
Revit provides the following advantages to the civil engineers:

a. Offer perfect, trustworthy and reasonable solutions
b. Substantiate the design of the model for constructability and performance
c. Maintenance of wood, steel and concrete structures like column, beam depths and clashes
d. Perform a detailed analysis of structural & MEP elements to render projects in risk-free environment
STAAD Pro: STAAD Pro is a handy software for structural engineers to make accurate structural analysis and design. The program supports the analysis of different types of structural elements like bridges, structural beams, floodgates, and much more. Civil engineers with a structural background are suggested to learn supporting programs like STAAD Pro.

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Eagle Point Adds Civil 3D 2018 Content To Pinnacle Series

Eagle Point Software Corp., an Autodesk AND Partner, declared about the inclusion of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 content to the Pinnacle Series, that facilitates the AEC organizations to instantly reap the benefit of the new features available in the newest version of AutoCAD Civil 3D and as well as enhance the productivity as a whole.

The users can now access the most extensive library of Civil 3D content. If the customers start to utilize the 2018 release of Civil 3D, they will be able to access the complete library of 2018 content in Pinnacle Series. Various workflows, cheat sheets, videos and technical support are contained with the new release.

In pinnacle series, support will be provided for supplementary Autodesk 2018 products and additional 2018 content is also included. Once this content will be finished, all pinnacle series clients can access them instantly.

To gather more information on the Pinnacle Series, visit Eagle Point Software (http://bimoutsourcing.com/civil-3d-2018-content-to-pinnacle-series.html

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Autodesk launched AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017

Civil 3D AutoCAD is based on AutoCAD and specifically designed for surveyors, designers of the general plan, the designers of linear structures.

This cad program creates intelligent link among the objects as well as dynamically update all linked objects in revising the results of research or design solutions.

AutoCAD Civil 3D comprises of automated calculations and drawing tools which can make the procedures better for developing engineering structures.

Key features :

- Quick set up of the concept and execution of the project;

- Easily understandable design is created on the basis of the interaction of objects which facilitate to maintain the perfectness and rationality of all parts of the project;

- More than 1 user can access the project and its elements;

- Chance for quick development, project assessment and planning for output documents;

- Integration of drawing possibilities AutoCAD and specialized design features;

- A wide array of API functions (Application Programming Interface) which facilitate the users to develop solutions on the basis of a common data model;

- The capability to optimize the functionality;

- Dynamic engineering model comprises the elementary objects of geometry and keeps intelligent relationships amid objects (point, surface, land, roads, and planning);

- Support of drawing standards and styles;

- Create plans automatically;

- Functionality of AutoCAD the Map 3D.

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Learn how to master with AutoCAD Civil 3D in the AU LAS VEGAS 2015

CADapult Software Solutions, Inc. is conducting a training session on AutoCAD Civil 3D. By participating this cad training class, one can learn how to deal with templates, styles, and settings in AutoCAD Civil 3D. The course will provide immense benefits for civil/survey users to clear their obstacles for working with AutoCAD Civil 3D. This AutoCAD training class will also focus on data compatibility and translation, output options, and various approaches.

The class will commence from December 1-3, 2015 in the Venetian, AU LAS Vegas.

Purposes for learning:-

• Be familiar with dealing AutoCAD Civil 3D templates, styles and settings.

• Explore various compatibility issues through other versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D and manage data from other design packages.

• Learn to distribute data amid project team members who are not utilizing AutoCAD Civil 3D.

• Explore through some useful techniques for transformation to AutoCAD Civil 3D and enhancing productivity of existing users.

Primary Industry segment:

• CAD Management and IT.

Secondary Industry segment:

• Civil Infrastructure.

Occupation/Profession:

• Building/Civil Engineering, Civil Engineer and Technician, IT Manager/CAD Equipment Manager.

Products:

• Infrastructure Design Suite.

Register your seat online

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Safe Software introduces FME 2015 with support to IFC, Revit and Sketchup

Safe Software, the trusted name in spatial data transformation technology, has just introduced the most updated version of its core technology alias FME 2015. This newest application is obtainable in both FME Desktop and FME Server.

FME 2015 contains the following exclusive features :-

Support for BIM Data: FME 2015 provides support for BIM data along with new IFC writing facility that facilitates the BIM professionals to produce models by integrating with formats like GIS. With advanced features, it is now possible to read BIM data from IFC, Autodesk Revit® and Trimble SketchUp®. So BIM professionals will be able to generate their own BIM models out of collective data.

Extended Point Cloud Options: The Users get the ability to use added point cloud features together with read support for latest formats like CARIS CSAR and RIEGL 6.0 RDB as well as the new PointCloudMerger, PointCloudSorter, & PointCloudStatisticsCalculator transformers. The tools which are available with FME are now upgraded - LAS support now includes versions 1.3 and 1.4, and Esri LASD files; XYZ support contains .csv and .txt file extensions; and non-spatial point cloud functionality is included to various transformers.

Improved Esri ArcGIS Support to Version 10.3: Esri users will be able to promote to ArcGIS 10.3 keeping their accessible FME workflows intact as FME 2015 provides its support for the newest version of Esri’s flagship product.

FME 2015 is also compatible with usually applied CAD formats like Autodesk AutoCAD®, along with AutoCAD Map 3D® and AutoCAD Civil 3D®, and Bentley MicroStation®.

Minecraft Reading and Writing: FME 2015 supports Minecraft® facilitating the users to generate their GIS and other accessible data with its interactively accountable gaming platform.

This feature will be very useful for city planning. The FME users will be capable of uploading their data into the Minecraft gaming engine to have the exact view in a 3D virtual surrounding.

Support for other Formats and Applications: FME 2015 can be incorporated with various others series of data sources and destinations like Autodesk FBX, Google Maps Engine Rasters, Microsoft SharePoint® Lists, OGC® GeoPackage, OpenSceneGraph OSGB, SFX Panorama Exchange reading, and TetGen.

For getting more updates, FME 2015, visit www.safe.com/fme/new

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