Creating Surfaces, Profiles, Horizontal Alignments & Vertical Alignments

Hello,

My question is "Can I create surfaces, profiles, & alignments using AutoCad2012?"

I know if I had Civil3D2012 I could do it, but can it be done with the Regular version I should say.

At my previous job I was using Civil3D2010 (darn economy Goverment job did lay offs) and now I'm using CAD2012 with new employer and I'm realizing that there are a lot of functions/commands that I don't have.

Thank-you for taking time to look over my post

A Young Civil Engineer determined to do great things one day.

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No, you can do none of those features you listed in plain AutoCad 2012 (or earlier/newer versions). As a civil engineer you really do need either AutoCad Civil 3D or some other civil design software package.

You can always manually draw profiles in AutoCad by calculating the levels etc yourself although that is tedious and within probably a month it would have been cheaper for the company to pay for Civil 3D instead.

Dink Thank-You. That is what I thought, I just wanted to make sure, before I proposed purchasing Civil3D to my supervisors.

Did you just decide to ignore my post?

SLW, yes I saw your post and that is what I need for the current project I'm working on, but I work for a small goverment municipality and our MIS Dept. gave me a "NO GO" on permission to download. That is one difference I have realized between Public and Private Sector. Working in Public Sector any changes to the CPU must be approved by several supervisors, where as in Private Sector you have way more freedom.

Thank-you for that link, it is a wonderful tool to know about.

Lots O'Luck getting the purchase of Civil 3D approved

... and this would be the same MIS Dept. that bought a seat of plain AutoCAD?

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Damn, that is a nice link there SLW210, thanks!

Moonh are you producing plans from field data and if so are you using a total station ? Most of the newer ones have a dxf ability as a output file obviously helps.

I would push the MIS staff write a request stating the facts about time savings if you could get one of the freebies, use sites like this as support that others have vetted the software. Theres a number of surface modler source code out there so you provide the code to your MIS to prove it will not harm your network.

All I can say one particualr task 20mins now a couple of seconds.