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Electric & Gas
Value of BIM for Utilities
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Plan, design, and help manage gas and electrical distribution networks and substations with Autodesk software
Workflow for electric and gas distribution
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Overview
Improve the way you plan, design, build, and manage electric and gas infrastructure assets. Plan more confidently, design and document more consistently, build your projects more reliably, and manage your electrical distribution projects more dependably with intelligent models.
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Distribution planning
Gather and analyze existing conditions data from multiple CAD and GIS formats and create maps and exhibits for stakeholder engagement.
Inform planning and help to improve preliminary electrical distribution design decisions.
Share mapping and GIS data with more stakeholders to aid in decisions about design projects.
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Substation design concepts
Create 3D environments including new or updated substation in the context of existing conditions, and make preliminary estimates for project needs to help improve planning coordination.
Coordinate concepts and analyze scenarios for design proposals with stakeholders to help speed approvals and get projects up and running without delays.
Share civil engineering results on site feasibility, including flood studies and road layout, in a 3D conceptual environment.
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Site design
Select sites and evaluate for grading, elevation, water runoff, flood analysis, and quantity takeoff estimates.
Design substation sites including grading, road, culvert, and more.
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Distribution design & documentation
Design overhead and underground electrical distribution networks in a 3D model-based environment with built-in engineering analysis, rules, and validation.
Improve productivity and consistency of designs across all drafters with configurable standards, templates, and workflows that provide guidance for material selection and sizing.
Provide a common engineering design environment to improve management of design data, and improve handoff of design to as-built management.
Create project lifecycle workflows to automate, standardize, and track design data to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
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Substation design & documentation
Help improve relay protection and controls design, and automate delivery of electrical model.
Build 3D prototypes of substation structures, cabling, and equipment in a model-based, rules-driven environment. Automate bill of materials generation to deliver more complete construction package.
Perform design checks on physical structures, equipment, conduit and cabling, and lighting protection controls with built-in engineering analysis.
Provide a common engineering design environment to improve management of substation design data and engineering workflows.
Create project lifecycle workflows to automate, standardize, and track design data to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
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Distribution construction
Access DWG™ data for reviews, edits, and collaboration as designs progress.
Receive notifications for design changes and reviews, edit and mark up design files, and manage your work on projects in a cloud-based project lifecycle workflow.
Access mapping data and DWG data from web. Speed up reviews and approvals, informing teams of changes, and collaborate on existing conditions data.
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Substation construction
Visualize Inventor model for review and coordination of project information, 4D simulation, and clash detection to improve constructability reviews.
Access, review, and mark up substation designs from anywhere, anytime.
Use a secure repository to access and post engineering design drawings.
Combine mobile and intelligent design at the point of construction to help automate field processes for quality, safety, and commissioning.
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Manage & share as-built data
Manage as-built data as intelligent industry models and integrate to enterprise systems.
Share mapping and as-built data across your organization via web to support customer service, finance, planning, reporting, operations, and maintenance.
Gain access to the most current information and access mapping data via mobile tools.
All products for electric and gas
AutoCAD Civil 3D
Civil engineering design and documentation software.
AutoCAD Raster Design
Raster image editing and raster-to-vector conversion tools.
Infrastructure Map Server
Web-based GIS mapping software.
Inventor
3D Digital Prototyping software for model-based physical design.
Plant Design Suite
Modern 3D plant and piping engineering software.
AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD software to design and document electrical controls systems.
AutoCAD Utility Design
Model-based, rules-driven electric distribution design software.
Autodesk InfraWorks
3D conceptual design software to communicate utility design proposals.
Navisworks Manage
Project review software for coordination, analysis, and communication.
AutoCAD
Design, documentation, and communication software.
AutoCAD Map 3D
Model-based mapping software providing access to CAD and GIS data.
AutoCAD WS
Cloud-based CAD editor available for desktop and mobile.
Autodesk PLM 360
Cloud-based project lifecycle management tools.
Vault Professional
Organize, manage, and track data.
Industry trends and topics
Tools for more efficient data management
With many electric and gas transmission and distribution assets aging and in need of replacement, companies are investing in technology to improve the way they manage the data associated with planning and design on capital improvement projects and maintenance of assets in operation.
3D modeling and visualization tools for easier collaboration
Many organizations are starting to incorporate 3D modeling and visualization tools to better communicate and collaborate internally with designers and nontechnical stakeholders, and externally with the public, other engineering and construction firms, and government agencies.
What customers are saying
Products they used
Swissgrid Transmission System Operator: Switzerland
A Swiss electricity operator turned to Autodesk® AutoCAD® Map 3D to map and manage its infrastructure assets more effectively, improving accuracy and operating more securely.
Swissgrid Transmission System Operator: Switzerland customer story
Municipal Light & Power, Anchorage
An Alaskan power utility saves time and increases data quality with help from Autodesk® AutoCAD® Utility Design and management solutions, extending design productivity and efficiency and making more informed operations decisions.
Okaloosa Gas District
Okaloosa Gas relies on more accurate, available spatial data to help manage its natural gas distribution infrastructure, helping customers more quickly and delivering more accurate maps to workers in the field.
Colorado Springs Utilities
Colorado Springs Utilities accelerates its gas and electric design processes with help from AutoCAD Utility Design.
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