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As a civil engineer: Essentially ALL of my CAD work basically is GIS. Only architectural drawings which are a tiny fraction of Civil drawings are an exception t
by Enginerrrd 4y ago
As a civil engineer: Essentially ALL of my CAD work basically is GIS. Only architectural drawings which are a tiny fraction of Civil drawings are an exception to that rule.
Civil3D is basically the industry standard and it is a GIS software.
We import many different GIS files into every drawing: property lines, jurisdicitons, roads, pipe networks, streams, topography etc.
You have to be a little careful when incorporating survey data (ground vs grid issues).
Then we draw onto various state plane projected coordinate systems. Creating pipe networks, road corridors, 3D grading and surfaces.
There's a bunch of analysis that comes out of that work as well. The beauty of Civil3d is that much of the analysis can be done IN the drawing. For obvious reasons that saves a lot of time.
- brailsafe 4y agoThat sounds like very interesting work and powerful software. I'm a little educated in other GIS software like QGIS and Arc, but don't have a true engineering background by any stretch. CAD work with integrated real world GIS data seems like it would be novel
- Enginerrrd 4y agoSo civil3D is really just a bunch of tool palettes on top of AutoCAD. Autodesk AutoCAD is a difficult to believe behemoth. It's like 40 year old software that NEVER EVER deprecates anything ever and runs lisp routines and all manner of things. It interoperates with dozens of other software packages, with hundreds of 3rd party add-ons. It supports a number of APIs for customization and automation. ncluding AutoLISP, Visual LISP, VBA, .NET and ObjectARX. People literally make whole careers just out of learning the ins and outs of civil3d.
- brailsafe 4y agoSeems like it would be a crazy nightmare/dream codebase to work on depending on where you get your kicks.