Tips & Tutorials Blog: infrastructure design

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is everyday lingo and now Civil integrated Management (CIM) is joining its ranks as the 3D/4D of civil and infrastructure design.  Regardless of the name, the purpose is to be able to see a completed project before it’s built so better design decisions can be made earlier in the design process, while […]

Do you work in oil and gas design?  We do too.  In fact, Autodesk and Synergis  have been solving design challenges in this industry for decades.  So when you have questions, we have the knowledge and expertise to help you stay ahead.  Here’s one more way.  Autodesk is bringing you a three-part series to improve your workflow. […]

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Jesse Evans, Synergis Civil Solutions Engineer: Introduction InfraWorks is a tool for winning proposals, graphically telling a story, and start to understand design complications before the actual engineering begins. It uses the same data types that can be imported (or exported) into Civil 3D or Map3D. So, as you […]

Januray 29, 2013, post by Nikki Szymanski: As I go onsite to different clients, I come accross some tricks that not everyone uses, but could save you a lot of time.  Here’s five that I often give to the firms I visit: 1.  Extract Contours from a Surface:  Use extract objects for surface. Surface>Utilities> Extract objects […]

January 22, 2013 by Jesse Evans, Civil Solutions Engineer: The development of the Survey package in Civil 3D has happened over many releases, as Autodesk added additional functions. Watching this process grow from the first release, I’ve developed an understanding of why things are the way they are. When I find myself explaining these processes, I understand […]

Autodesk has created an interactive set of tools to help you design your infrastructure and civil projects by incorporating every part of the design process so that you are communicating accurate, realistic presentations to project stakeholders that may have little or no experience with engineering drawings. Of course, this is only one reason the Infrastructure Design Suite will help you […]