Civil Engineering

Being able to visualize a civil engineering project before it’s built helps your firm, your clients, government agencies, and community stakeholders assess its impact on the surrounding area and gain insight into how it will perform in context. Conveying your design intent accurately and realistically through visualizations created with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software can help remove obstacles and prevent objections as you move through the project approval process.

With AutoCAD Civil 3D and 3ds Max Design, you can:

• Explore civil designs more clearly and accurately before they are real
• Review designs through visual simulations and detect errors early—when they are less costly to fix
• Communicate design intent during planning, zoning, and public involvement meetings

Autodesk 3ds Max Design is a compressive modeling, animation, and rendering toolset. From simple non-photorealistic renditions to cinematic-quality animations, you can leverage design data created in AutoCAD Civil 3D and 3ds Max Design to:

• Build animated simulations such as drive-throughs, flyovers, and interactive simulations for proposed roads, underground infrastructure, subdivisions, and interchanges
• Create highly believable object animations such as car rigs and character animation to show functional detail in visualization
• Model objects, including signs and traffic lights and surface materials, pavement, and grass
• Create physically accurate daylight studies to assess the impact of daylight on civil engineering projects with the exposure daylight analysis system
• Aggregate data from AutoCAD Civil 3D and third-party solutions into 3ds Max Design with 3AM Dynamite VSP plug-in (sold separately)