CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 July 2013
Product News
IMAGINiT Technologies Launches Utilities for Civil 3D 2014
Rand Worldwide today announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has released the new Import from Google Utility and Point Station and Offset Report Utility for IMAGINiT’s Utilities for Civil 3D. In addition to the new Utilities, IMAGINiT has also enhanced the existing AutoOffset Utility to include compatibility with the 2014 version of Autodesk Civil 3D.
“IMAGINiT’s success in developing over 20 popular utilities for the building and manufacturing sectors has made designers and engineers using Civil 3D request similar time-saving applications,” says Bob Heeg, executive vice president, IMAGINiT Technologies. “Our seasoned development team has now developed new Civil 3D specific utilities that will allow team members to focus on the high-value work while minimizing manual and repetitive tasks.”
New Utilities available for Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014
IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D are specifically designed to alleviate the burden of low-value work such as manual calculations and sifting through large amounts of geographic and topographic data.
Import from Google reunites Google Maps and Civil 3D. Civil engineers can once again, using data from Google Maps, import color, geo-referenced images as well as terrain model surfaces that can be used to determine land use, basic topography, basic cut and fill volume calculations, profiles, and cross sections.
Almost all civil engineering projects are based on existing topography and related information, making Import from Google an essential tool for Civil 3D. Now engineers can quickly and easily complete a preliminary analysis of a site, doing in minutes what would normally take hours of research and possibly even an aerial survey – saving both the time and related costs.
Point Station and Offset Report identifies the station and offset points relative to an alignment and writes them to a report or an ASCII file. The level of detail provided by this Utility offers unsurpassed flexibility and reduces the amount of manual calculation and editing from hours to minutes.
Enhancements to IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D
AutoOffset is a ‘must have’ utility for municipal engineers and consultants who work with linear design along roads where there is a need to identify and label significant topography points (trees, structures, markers, etc.) from survey data points.
This Utility allows users to understand potential design conflicts as well as restore items that were within the right of way to their original location upon completion of work. Now with full compatibility with the 2014 version of Civil 3D, AutoOffset continues to provide significant time savings, by automating label creation and editing to produce time savings of days on a large project.
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