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Discover the newest features in AutoCAD Civil 3D® civil engineering design software. Connected Alignments Experience greater control when designing complex interchanges with expanded geometric options and more. Grading Optimization Automate complex and tedious site grading processes. Optimize terrain surface and 3D geometry for further design.

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With AutoCAD 2022, you can experience the power to design, build, and create. The power to turn ideas into reality. And the power to do it on your terms. Overview video Watch this video to see an overview of the innovative new features and enhancements that have been added to AutoCAD 2022.

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Generative Design Now you can use generative design directly in Revit to quickly generate design alternatives based on your goals, constraints, and inputs.Generative Design provides a set of sample study types to demonstrate how this tool can be used to generate outcomes for design challenges. Create and explore generative studies directly in Revit...

Bentley is WOWing engineers with the new STAAD. The videos below show you some of the differences between the old STAAD V8i and the new STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition one piece at a time. SectionWizard Editor Start Menu Foundation Design WOWing Engineers

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Improve your design efficiency Check out this video and learn how Bentley's Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM technology) helps you boost the design productivity on your concrete building designs

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Design connections-based review-approval workflows. During the project process from design to detailing, there are many discussions between engineer, detailer, and fabricator about how to connect the multi-material framing elements like beams, columns, and bracings. For cases like that, you can place a structural connection to supply information ab...

​ Leverage the corridor for design of site features. ​ In addition to alignments and profiles, feature lines can now be used as corridor baselines in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. Feature lines can also be selected when creating the corridor and when adding baselines. ​Clickhere to try out AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 for free.

​ Sketch bent sheets to accommodate different shapes of concrete hosts. ​When placing fabric reinforcement sheets, you can now sketch bent sheets to accommodate different shapes of concrete hosts. You can later edit them to adjust to any change. This gives you more accurate and completed detailing and documentation of structural elements. ​Watch vi...

Create better-coordinated code-based designs and documentation that extends to fabrication During the project process from design to detailing, there are many discussions between engineer, detailer, and fabricator about how to connect the multi-material framing elements like beams, columns, and bracings. For cases like that, you can place a structu...

Enhanced access to corridor models improving how teams work on transportation project Create data shortcuts for corridors so they can be referenced in other drawings. When data shortcuts are created for a corridor, shortcuts are also created for the alignments and profiles that make up the corridor baselines. The geometry of a reference surface in ...

Now you can experience an improved reinforcement workflow with new in-canvas tools that replace the Rebar Constraints dialog box in Revit 2017.

You can place rebar more precisely with the graphical constraints manager. You can place standard rebar shapes that snap to adjacent standard rebar or constrain them to host faces.

The user interface highlights each rebar segment that can be constrained, along with available targets. The snap constraint maintains its relationship when you place, move, drag, or copy rebar.

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Video & Screen Shot - Graphical Rebar Constraints Management

Roundabout-related features from Autodesk^® Vehicle Tracking have been integrated into AutoCAD Civil 3D enabling the creation of a new type of roundabout object in AutoCAD Civil 3D.

 

 

You can now bring roundabouts into an AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing from Autodesk^® InfraWorks® 360.

Now you can define more accurate reinforcement for non-standard concrete element shapes by fitting rebar for non-standard geometry with rebar sets that vary along inclined faces.

You can use multi-rebar annotations, customizable numbering settings, and more accurate schedules that display varying lengths.

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Video & Screen Shot - Variable Rebar Distribution

 

Reinforcement connectors are family-based and fully customizable, and each team member can use them according to their needs. Rebar connectors interact with the rebar that they connect to, facilitating change management.

Structural engineers can use schematic connectors to define requirements.

Detailers can use them to produce shop drawings.

Manufacturers can go into full detail, precisely modeling and representing reinforcement connectors to create installation instructions.

You can add the connectors to groups, assemblies, and partitions with unique coupler numbering, and you can export them to various formats.