Manage objects (parcels, alignments, gradings, and feature lines) with a common topology in a site collection.

Streamline the download, creation, analysis, and adjustments of field-captured survey data.

More efficiently process field-captured survey data to create an intelligent base map in Civil 3D.

Visualize and analyze geotechnical data then use that data directly in the Civil 3D design model.

Grading tools and commands facilitate the efficient design of finished ground surfaces.

Automate the process for conducting grading design studies for land areas based on established design project criteria.

Allow engineers to set up and create complex and multi-base corridors faster and with greater efficiency.

Performance enhancements have been made to various corridor workflows, including corridor properties, corridor surface creation, and corridor regeneration

Deploy both subassemblies and assemblies more efficiently by sharing a custom subassembly in a shared project location. Corridors consuming the subassembly can be easily updated to use the new version.

Create and edit corridor transition when you want to transition a parameter in a subassembly from one value to another. More controls have been added to allow easy movement of transitions and rearranging the order of transitions.

Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for highways and roads. Build rail track corridor models, incorporating designs for switches, turnouts, and cant calculations.

Extract corridor feature lines with ease to use as a basis for creating grading objects or other design projects. Extracting feature lines can be done all at once, selected one-by-one, or by selecting a subset within a corridor region or a polygon.

Efficiently use assemblies and subassemblies to establish the basic building blocks of a roadway or other alignment-based design.

Create dynamic 3-way, 4-way, or roundabout intersections.

Model roundabouts according to defined standards. Build your roundabouts into existing corridor models, enabling your design to update automatically when you make changes to the corridor alignments.

Generate 3D models of pressure networks, such as water transmission systems. More controls have been added  for layout and editing workflows including merging pressure networks, DREF sync improvements, and party symbol display.

Efficiently draw 2D and 3D models of utility systems, such as storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and more.

Perform a variety of stormwater management tasks, including storm sewer design, watershed analysis, detention pond modeling, and culvert, channel, and inlet analysis.

Create plan-only, plan and profile, profile-only, and section sheets by including multiple plan or profile views on a single sheet.

Extract and report material volumes and analyze quantities from materials and sectional or profile information.

Use the Dynamo visual scripting environment to develop routines that automate repetitive design tasks and expedite workflows.

Manage the staggering volume of design data in Civil 3D models in this tool. Easily review, validate, report, export and edit models. Enhancements have been made to the navigation capabilities and tools to make management and reporting of custom property data more efficient.

To help designers and engineers visualize terrain, streets, and structures, five new Esri basemaps are available under Geolocation.

Create and share data shortcuts for corridors.

Create professional-quality visualizations.

Import and export AutoCAD solids to IFC files.

Bring context modeling and conceptual design into your design process. Make better decisions with a real-world context of existing conditions, more efficiently consider alternatives, and complete detailed design and documentation in Civil 3D.

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

Create dynamic, flexible 3D models of road corridors. Simulate driving through the corridor and visually evaluate sight distance and influence analysis.

Create dynamic models of 3-way (T-shaped) or 4-way intersections. Model roundabouts according to standards that blend with existing or planned roads.

Perform storm water management tasks, including storm sewer design. Define pipeline paths, optimized with hydraulics/hydrology analysis.

Automate assembly generation for your rehab corridor design model. Optimize mill and overlay to balance costs vs. performance.

Use visual programming to generate reusable scripts that automate repetitive and complex tasks.

Use materials information to create reports for volumes along an alignment, comparing design and existing ground surfaces, and quantity takeoff.

Create plan production sheets that automatically display station ranges of alignments and profiles that are based on predefined areas along an alignment.

Download, create, analyze, and adjust survey data. Streamline the transfer of field-captured data to and from the office.

Create comprehensive digital models of ground topography for studies such as land-use feasibility, transportation system planning, and water flow simulations.

Create dynamic and data-rich corridor models for designs such as residential roads, curbs, and sidewalks, swales within a subdivision, and parking lot design.

Use swept path analysis to speed planning and evaluate safety standards compliance. Animate vehicle paths with 2D or 3D animations using multiple camera angles.

Model storm and sanitary sewer systems. Analyze networks to resize pipes, reset inverts, and compute energy and hydraulic grade lines according to HEC-22 standards.

Integrate stormwater and wastewater analysis during planning and design of urban drainage systems, storm sewers, and sanitary sewers.

Lay out horizontal and vertical 3D design of pressure networks. Model deflected-curve pipe segments and use design and depth checks to meet project standards.

Use a visual programming application to generate scripts that automate repetitive and complex tasks. Save these scripts in a library and reuse them as needed.

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

Use rail alignments to create rail lines with common stationing based on specified tolerances that adjust with changes to parent rail alignment geometry, profile, and cant.

Design turnouts for branching alignments and crossover switches connecting parallel alignments based on a library of turnout and crossover types that you can edit, delete, or supplement.

Build 3D track corridor models, including alignments, profiles, and assemblies. Incorporate designs for switches, turnouts, platforms, and calculations for cant.

Design platform edges for light or heavy rail using single or dual platform subassemblies with a dynamically updating platform edge running along a track.

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