Civil 3D Subscription Advantage Pack:

• This is essentially a collection of new tools to offer extra functionality to Subscription Customers.
• This particular release for Civil 3D is exceptionally good so we're hosting this webcast to showcase the functionality.

Point Clouds, Roundabout Layout, and General Enhancements

Extend the capabilities of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010 software with the following features:

Point Clouds—Import and visualize large sets of point cloud data, such as 3D laser scanning/LiDAR data sets with millions of points, in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 with the Point Clouds feature. The point cloud feature enables you to:

• Import LiDAR data in LAS format and all point file formats supported by AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010
• Visualize large point clouds in 3D
• Stylize point data based on LAS classifications, RGB, elevation, and intensity
• Filter point data by style
• Snap to points within the point cloud using standard AutoCAD® software tools

Some common uses of LiDAR data in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 may include using the point cloud data for site surveys, developing an understanding of the site context, and digitizing as-built features (for example, building footprints and curbs) for design projects.

Roundabout Layout—More quickly lay out roundabouts, including signage and striping, based on common design standards using the Roundabout Layout feature. Once the horizontal geometry of a roundabout has been defined, you can dynamically move and edit the roundabout throughout the optimization process.

General Enhancements—Streamline existing workflows in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 with a variety of powerful enhancements for transportation design, survey, visual analysis, and general production. Capabilities include:

Transportation Design Tools

• Best-fit alignment creation tool
• Split (create subset) alignment
• Join profile tangents (extend tangents to point of vertical intersection [PVI] by grade intersection)
• Set PVI by elevation and grade
• Create spiral by sweep angle
• Import superelevation from Microsoft® Office Excel® files (XLS)

Survey Tools

• Crossing breakline utility
• Survey import (TSS format support)
• Survey import (SRV format support)
• Survey change report
• Survey point and chain edit utility

Visual Analysis Tools

• “Drive Along” visualization
• Line-of-site analysis
• Vertical distance analysis

General Production Tools

• Save as DGN format
• Create surface from GIS data
• Zoom to point
• Calculate minimum vertical distance between surfaces
• Calculate minimum vertical distance between entities
• Divide/crop surface (create subset for use in other drawings)