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Civil Site Design for AutoCAD Civil 3D

The only Civil 3D companion that significantly increases Civil 3D's productivity

For more than a decade now, AutoCAD Civil 3D has been the king of the civil/site/survey world. It’s an immensely powerful tool that handles even the most complex designs and gives you highly customizable tools for just about any civil-related scenario you can imagine. The problem is that very often it’s just too complicated to work in effectively. Even those who work in Civil 3D every day still avoid many of its features because they’re just too difficult and time-consuming for use on many small/mid-size projects.

Many firms regularly avoid building Civil 3D Corridors, Pipe Networks, and even Gradings because they’re just too difficult and require far too much time to become comfortable with. What the civil world really needs is a tool that will let you easily generate and modify all the 3D site modeling tools you need, without the extended learning curve. A tool that will integrate with Civil 3D but simplify your daily workload.

ZenTek Consultants is the Premier Partner for Civil Site Design in the U.S. and Canada, and we’d love the opportunity to show you how this amazing site design tool can dramatically improve your project output at a far lower cost than you’d imagine. Contact us to learn more or schedule a demo today!

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Civil Site Design is a cost-effective, and immensely powerful civil/site/survey solution for Civil 3D that gives you all the design tools of Civil 3D but in a much faster, easier-to-use format. Not only will Civil Site Design give you all the 3D modeling tools you need, its output can be converted directly to Civil 3D objects for collaboration with other firms/groups using that system. Better yet, Civil Site Design’s tools and user interface have been designed to be immensely flexible while maintaining ease of use.

Civil Site Design uses common 2D interfaces and drafting concepts to develop their modeling, not complex and convoluted command structures you need to learn from scratch. Civil Site Design tools are meant to be very intuitive for anyone who has a site design background, keeping you focused on the actual design and not on complicated software procedures. Civil Site design plugs directly into your current Civil 3D package, providing you with the tools you need, right inside the system you're using today!

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Want to see how simple it is to use Civil Site Design? Take a look at these short videos and see how you can accomplish in minutes what would take days in Civil 3D!

Project Assist

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are now considered to be one of the biggest innovations since the microchip. As this technology continues to improve and evolve, the more we use it in our daily life.

The Development Team at Civil Survey Solutions have been following the evolution of A.I. and leveraging machine learning technology to build tools to assist civil designers.

Project Assist is designed to allow even junior designers to become productive quickly. Using named alignments, it learns your design intent and generates a design document for the project. Senior designers can review the design document, make changes and share the design drawing amongst the design team.

Surfaces From Point Files, Point Clouds and Satellite Data

In addition to your normal Civil 3D surface functions, Civil Site Design incorporates the ability to read point clouds directly with intelligent filtering. You can use the ground surface for design and to visualize your design in Model Viewer with the point cloud overlay.​

The satellite to surface feature will geo-reference your drawing and will use Google elevation data as well as imagery from multiple sources to generate a surface and overlay the image. This is a perfect option for preliminary design and for watershed analysis with HEC RAS.

Civil 3D Corridor Creation

Managing and editing corridors and assemblies is one of the most complex and least understood process in Civil 3D.​

A key feature of Civil Site Design is the automatic creation of your design surfaces, profiles, assemblies and corridors from the Civil Site Design model. Once created, users can edit their profiles, update Civil Site Design and regenerate your corridors.

Templates

Templates provide an intuitive way to define your road, curb, sidewalks, pond elements and related grading strings. Civil Site Design provides a number of examples that can be easily configured to conform to your standards.

Automated Road Network Design

Once your alignments have been created, you can apply a template and generate the design for an entire subdivision with a single mouse click. You can also create all of your curb returns with a single mouse click saving you hours of effort when compared to native Civil 3D.​

This time saving process creates an initial vertical design for each road, applies your default template and allows you to view plan, profile and cross-sections simultaneously. All are tied together so changing the vertical design of one road updates all of the connected profiles.

Interactive, Intuitive Design Tools

The interactive design tools allow you to simultaneously access multiple windows of your design. You can open multiple profile views including curb returns and observe changes as a profile is updated. Same with cross-section views.

​The model viewer tool allows you to see the changes rendered in real time providing an intuitive perspective that helps experienced designers and greatly increases the productivity of new designers.

Real Time Interactive Visualization

The unique Model Viewer not only assists your design process with real time rendering and visualization, it has a number of powerful analysis tools including line of sight analysis and reporting, automated line marking which can be exported to your CAD drawing.

​For those who want to render a design for visualization, you can extrude buildings, insert objects like street lights and vehicles and much more.

Cul-de-Sac, Parking Bay and Roundabout Tools

Another productivity feature in Civil Site Design is the interactive cul-de-sac and roundabout network strings. These intuitive, form driven tools guide designers through the entire design process.

​Experienced designers can take full control of the design process making manual edits and controlling the design with their own alignments.

Civil 3D Design Exchange

If you are using Civil Site Design for Civil 3D, Civil Site Design will generate your profiles, design surfaces, corridors, assemblies and pipe networks for you. Never create or manage a corridor again!

Pipe Design

The pipe design module allows you to easily layout your design with simple polylines, will assign pipes and structures and will generate your network automatically.

The CSD pipe designer, provides a powerful interface that displays pipes in relationship to the ground surface. Pipes are designed automatically based on minimum slope and design flows. Obstructions from other utilities are displayed and color coated based on minimum clearances.

Incoming pipes are also displayed and will control the manhole invert where appropriate.

Key Benefits of Civil Site Design for Civil 3D

  • Scalability for Subdivision Road Design
    Undertake large subdivisions in one drawing, with connected road intersections, curb returns, cul-de-sacs, knuckles and roundabouts.
  • Speed and performance
    Experience a 10+ times speed improvement over native AutoCAD Civil 3D as you make design changes.
  • Scalability for rural road design
    Civil Site Design can design 12+ miles of a rural roads all in 1 drawing, including intersections and roundabouts.
  • Database support
    Drawing crashes do not mean loss of data. All Civil Site Design data is accessed via data files, so losing time in the drawing doesn’t mean losing time in design.
  • Satellite surface
    Obtain surface and image data by typing in a location.
  • Roads and intersections
    Roads automatically connect vertically based on the alignment geometry. Auto Create Roads allows multiple alignments to be converted to roads at once, including intersection connections that are maintained as main roads are edited vertically.
  • Curb Return and Intersection Automation
    Intersections and curb returns are created directly from the alignment geometry, not by the creation of individual intersections. The Auto curb return command can create 100’s of connected curb returns at once. Curb returns can be set to automatically build sections from the roads, and trim out the main and side roads for an automated road network surface model.
  • Cul-de-sac Design
    Dedicated cul-de-sac design tools to create cul-de-sac alignments parametrically. Cul-de-sac strings stay attached to the road, with cross sections automatically generated from the road cross sections and automatically integrated into the automated road network model
  • Knuckles
    Dedicated knuckle tools to create knuckle strings, with parametric inputs. Knuckles are associated to the connecting road for dynamic linkage and updating, and are automatically integrated into the automated road network model
  • Cross Section Design Simplified
    No confusion about assemblies – simple and straightforward template (assembly) creation, with every code able to be ‘target mapped’. Simple daylight tools, with the ability to create intelligent daylight conditions.
  • Multiple Windows into the Design
    Unlike Civil 3D, you can concurrently view the following aspects of the design in separate design windows that can be maximized, docked, moved and resized like any Windows form:
    - The vertical design of your profile
    - Design cross sections at any station
    - A fully rendered, dynamically linked 3D model of the design
    It is easy to show multiple profile designs positioned on any monitor of your choosing, without eating into the model view area.
  • Cross Section Review Windows
    Open multiple cross section windows directly from the vertical design window, displaying code, elevation, level difference, and more. Right click to jump to other stations. Show more than one cross section of the design. Cross sections update as the design is changed.
  • Integrated 3D Model Viewer
    See the design in realistic 3D view as you make design changes. This has Like object viewer but with numerous benefits:
    - Click button exaggeration
    - You can continue working on the design with the viewer open
    - The model updates dynamically as the design is edited and surfaces rebuilt
    - Enables sight distance analysis for roads and intersections, highlighting, and reporting any sight distance issues
    - Includes line marking tools to generate user-controlled pavement marking able to be exported directly to the drawing
    - Access the design windows and outputs directly by right clicking on the viewer
  • Single Click volumes
    Obtain volume reports for any string (Road, Curb Return, Cul-de-sac, etc) at the click of a button. The report can be directly exported to CSV (Excel) or as a table in the drawing.
  • Profile Design Tools - Volumes
    Volumes Users can automate the raise/lower of multiple PVI’s to achieve a net volume outcome.
  • Profile Design Tools
    There are automation tools for the profile design – match the profile to the surface (with height adjustment), apply a re-sheet to achieve minimum height above the existing surface, compute and apply elevations using elevations from a surface at an offset and applying a slope, and more.
  • Design Constraints
    Design your string with confidence by applying Design Constraints. These show you a range of elevations to design inside in order to achieve elevation or slope controls from another code/string/surface (eg: to design so that the crossfall to the edge of road is within +-5%)
  • Driveway Design Tools
    Quickly assess driveway issues from polylines drawn to represent driveway paths. Driveways connect to designed roads and to user defined property boundaries. Designers can quickly apply a compliance check for passenger vehicle vertical clashes. Visually, vertical clearance of any vehicle can be displayed on any string. As the road is edited or the driveway polyline moved, the driveway grading will update and users can see the vertical clearance change dynamically.
  • Model Builder
    Users can build surface models from any collection of design strings. Users can pick the strings to include and also trim out portions of the string cross sections over any station range.
  • Civil 3D Integration
    Surfaces, alignments, profiles, assemblies, corridors and stakeout points are created as Civil 3D objects in the current drawing. All Profile Views can be created by the software, for each and every string designed (all Roads, Curb Returns, Cul-de-sac, etc).
  • Quick Branch Sequencing
    No need to create alignments along pipe runs – very quick to establish pipe branches. This allows automated structure/pipe naming based on the branching and one click profile generation.
  • Pipe Vertical Grading Window
    Like the roads, pipe design occurs in separate, movable, resizable windows. Reduce clutter in the drawing or the necessity to split views. Tracker included in the drawing.
  • Sanitary Sewer Design
    Sewer pipe design tools including house (property) connection controls.
  • Clash Detection
    Check clash detection between any pipes – stormwater, sewer and service pipes, updating as you change the vertical design
  • Plan/Profile Plots
    Assign pipes to roads and generate your plan/profile sheets of your pipe network without fuss, clutter, or bother. User customizable and includes flow details for stormwater.
  • Polyline Grading
    Grading strings created from polylines and dynamically updating as the polyline moves. Includes Template assignment (same as for roads) and with automated trimming of internal bends (bow tie removal).

Civil Site Design Cost & Leasing Information

Civil Site Design for AutoCAD Civil 3D is available as a perpetual license or subscription. Both options are available as single user and multi-user (network).

Perpetual licenses & Subscriptions include: Home Use License, One Year of Software Maintenance, and One Year of Technical Support.

Need to discuss volume discounts, purchasing options or want a formal quotation? Contact us at 866-824-4459.

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Why Lease?

  • Conserve your working capital
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  • Potential tax savings under IRS Section 179
  • $1 purchase option allows you to own the equipment at the end of the term
  • Quick turnaround times on Credit Applications: Under $150,000 approvals in 2-4 hours with application only; over $150,000 approvals in 24 to 48 hours with submission of tax returns or financials
  • Fixed monthly payments throughout term
  • Trade up to new equipment
  • Competitive finance rates

* Lease pricing starts at $5,000 at a minimum.

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