Civil 3D

Autodesk Civil 3D: Comprehensive detailed design and documentation software for civil infrastructure

What is Autodesk Civil 3D?

Autodesk Civil 3D design software empowers civil engineers to meet complex infrastructure challenges in a 3D model-based environment.

  • Accelerate design and documentation

  • Advance design automation

  • Improve collaboration and coordination

What is Autodesk Civil 3D?

Autodesk Civil 3D design software empowers civil engineers to meet complex infrastructure challenges in a 3D model-based environment.

  • Accelerate design and documentation

  • Advance design automation

  • Improve collaboration and coordination

Streamline your design and documentation workflows

Deliver design and construction documentation for road and highway, site design, rail, and bridge projects. Reduce overall design time with faster modeling for surfaces, corridors, terrain, and more.

Gain efficiencies with seamless GIS Integration

Streamline the process of incorporating geographical data into your designs, ensure accurate geolocation of assets, analyze for planning, and contextually visualize your designs.

Improve project collaboration

Enable designers to author, share, and update design projects in a central data environment. Make real-time updates at any phase of the project lifecycle to share with different teams.

Streamline your design and documentation workflows

Deliver design and construction documentation for road and highway, site design, rail, and bridge projects. Reduce overall design time with faster modeling for surfaces, corridors, terrain, and more.

Gain efficiencies with seamless GIS Integration

Streamline the process of incorporating geographical data into your designs, ensure accurate geolocation of assets, analyze for planning, and contextually visualize your designs.

Improve project collaboration

Enable designers to author, share, and update design projects in a central data environment. Make real-time updates at any phase of the project lifecycle to share with different teams.

Features to support your operations

Site and survey workflows

Download, create, analyze, and adjust survey data, as well as transfer field-captured data to the office.

Terrain modeling

Create digital models of topography for land-use studies, transportation system planning, and water flow simulations.

Corridor modeling

Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for highways, roads, and rail tracks.

Design automation

Use visual programming to generate scripts that automate repetitive and complex tasks, including electrification and signaling.

Drainage design and analysis

Manage stormwater and sanitary sewer design. Define pipeline paths, optimized with hydraulics/hydrology analysis.

Materials and quantities

Use materials and sectional or profile information to create reports for volumes, comparing design and existing surfaces and quantity takeoff.

Do more with Civil 3D extensions

Grading Optimization for Civil 3D

Use Grading Optimization to automate time-consuming grading tasks, explore alternatives to find optimal solutions, and return to Civil 3D to complete the detailed design.

"[With Autodesk] were able to collaborate seamlessly using the AEC package on our BIM platform."

— Ismaeel Babur, Senior Civil Engineer, Virgin Hyperloop One

"The benefits are about transparency and better collaboration."

— Jan-Peter Ter Maaten, VolkerWessels

"Civil 3D allowed for quick generation of plans for signature and submittal to the agencies."

— Charles D'Errico, IT Systems Analyst, Thomas & Hutton

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Explore a powerful set of tools with extended capabilities built for engineering complex products, equipment, and systems.

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Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection

Design better, smarter, faster with the AEC Collection

Save over annual licenses

Explore a powerful set of tools with extended capabilities built for engineering complex products, equipment, and systems.

Products included

+ 11 more

Civil 3D Resources

  • Landscape with bullet train, tunnels, and wind turbines

    Webinar

    The value of the AEC collection for civil engineers

    Deep dive into the powerful capabilities for infrastructure design workflows.

  • Rendering of a futuristic city with bridge, air traffic control tower, bullet train, freeways, and construction site

    Blog

    Civil 3D highlights and updates

    See the latest updates for efficiently designing and digitally modeling infrastructure projects.

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    Roadmap

    What’s next for Civil 3D

    Explore the product development pipeline for Civil 3D and provide your feedback.

Questions? We have answers.

Civil 3D is used to plan, design, and deliver land development, water, and transportation projects

Civil engineers, civil designers, and other civil infrastructure professionals rely on Civil 3D for better, more innovative project outcomes.

Your Civil 3D subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also previous releases available for subscribers.