“A set of tools that speeds up theinitial layout of design features inAutoCAD Civil 3D, allowing you totake advantage of Civil 3D’s dynamicabilities earlier in the design process.”

Designers’ Companionfor Civil 3D

Reduce the number of steps and simplifyyour workflow for common design taskswithin AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Guided by a straightforward interface, Designers’ Companion

offers you efficient tools to rapidly lay out streets, lots, highways,

parking lots, detention ponds and subsurface terrain. By

leveraging the dynamic, iterative power of the Civil 3D model

earlier in the design process, project alternatives can be quickly

modified and finalized sooner.

For many design projects, the sophisticated and robust options

AutoCAD Civil 3D provides are not always needed. By

condensing the number of inputs and streamlining the interface,

less time is spent worrying about which commands to run next,

allowing more time to be spent on design.

Designers’ Companion for Civil 3D

Whether you are an AutoCAD Civil 3D power user or novice, Designers' Companion increases

your efficiency during the creation of design objects in Civil 3D. Rather than using the

traditional method of laying out many design features and running multiple commands in a

specified order, Designers' Companion allows you to run one command to create the final

design object. Not only does this reduce the number of clicks and commands, but also takes

out the guesswork of which command to run next. This drastically shortens the learning curve

and makes the implementation of Civil 3D much easier. The Designers' Companion creates

native Civil 3D objects such as Surfaces, Alignments, Parcels, Profiles, and Feature Lines

making dynamic manipulation of the objects simple after their creation.

• Bypass the sophisticated options in Civil

3D with purpose-built functions, spending

more time on design and less time

worrying about which commands to run

next.

• Dramatically reduce the steps and

simplify the command flow needed to

create design features such as roadway

corridors, subdivision streets with parcels,

detention ponds and parking lots by

combining the necessary inputs into

single routines.

• Quickly lay out subdivisions according to

your local agency standards complete

with alignments, centerline profiles, and

dynamic lots that move and update when

your street changes.

• For simple design and drafting scenarios,

bypass the robust features of Civil 3D and

use faster and easier grading utilities and

pipe/structure drafting tools.

• Generate subsurface terrain models

using soil boring measurements and

advanced modeling techniques that

resolve daylighting conflicts between

surfaces.

• Easily modify label styles to change

common parameters such as the layer,

color, text style, text height, and

precision without taking the time to find

the exact style used in the Settings Tab.

Key Benefits

• Efficiently lay out a complete Civil 3D

corridor using a single routine that

combines the seven different inputs for

alignment, profile, assembly and corridor

information.

• Modify the elevations of a 3D polyline or

Feature Line in profile view and have the

software create dynamic Civil 3D

Alignments and Profiles that stay in sync.

Great for designing utilities and other site

features.

• Edit Alignment data specifying common

inputs for PI locations using deflection

angle and curve parameters such

as degree of curvature, tangent length,

radius, length of curve, chord length,

external ordinate, and mid ordinate.

• Easier Profile editing using

straightforward dialog boxes to set PVI

stations and elevations, grades and

distances, vertical curve parameters, high

points, low points and pass through

points.

• Lay out a subdivision concept by simply

drawing an Alignment and having Civil

3D Parcels sized and placed

automatically. Add cul-de-sacs to

complete your design concept.

Key Features

Design a detention pondspecifying your desired capacity(or pond depth) and a basicoutline of the pond geometry.Designers’ Companion calculatesthe necessary pond parametersand grades the interior andexterior slopes, resulting in afinal design surface.

About Eagle Point SoftwareSince 1983, Eagle Point Software Corporation has been delivering

technical software and services to the AEC market. As an Autodesk

Preferred Industry Partner and authorized Autodesk Developer, ISV

and Government Gold Partner we offer desktop solutions that run

on AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, and Autodesk® Revit® platforms.

Key Features

Designers’ Companion for Civil 3D

Use the Styles Editor to quicklychange labels when you see thatthey don't follow your precision,layer, color, text style and textheight standards. Graphicallyselect the label to change theparameters instead of navigatingto the Style dialog boxes via theextensive Settings Tree.

• Parcels generated with the Draw Street command are associated with your Civil 3D Alignment so as changes are made to the alignment geometry, all of the parcels and cul-de-sacs adjust dynamically.

• Specify inputs for minimum area and frontages to automatically size your parcels according to your local agency standards.

• Perform simple grading functions such as project slopes to a surface or catchline without the need of creating grading groups.

• Create mass grading surfaces to jump-start your detailed site design for parking lots and other grading pads. Select the area to grade, specify the desired planar slope and constraining point to create a Civil 3D surface as a starting point to drape Feature lines and refine the design.

• Refine and improve your drawing template, choosing whether your change to the label style should affect all labels orsimply create another style with your modifications.

• Generate subsurface Civil 3D surfaces using soil boring data and advanced modeling techniques to resolve conflicts between surfaces.

• Control Civil 3D tooltip display, turning off tooltips for certain object types or uniquelyper object. For example, isolate the Station/Offset tooltip to only report for a particular alignment, not all alignments.

• Create staking points following horizontal alignments and vertical profile data. Set points at your desired interval and includestations at key curve locations (begin, end, high/low, etc.). Specify horizontal offset parameters to set curb stakes. Idealfor design stakes for channels, utilities, pipelines or when a full-blown corridor is not needed.

• Generate several reports within seconds that are not included in Civil 3D such as Alignment Curve and PI Data, Elevation and Depth reports for Corridor materials and surfaces, Slice (Stage) Volumes, and Station/Offset Reports. View the reports on screen or send the information to a fileor printer.

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