Better Understand Existing Conditions

• Gather images, Lidar, CAD, and GIS data
• Display data in 2D and 3D
• Visualize proposed infrastructure

Analyze Information to Inform Decisions

• Conduct spatial analysis to see trends
• Identify priority areas
• Analyze impacts of new structures

Easily Communicate Project Options

• Quickly model and visualize designs
• Show intent with photorealistic visuals
• Create maps to support feasibility

Create and Evaluate Design Ideas Faster

• Gather images, Lidar, CAD, and GIS data
• Display data in 2D and 3D
• Lay out, model, and visualize designs

Create More Design Options

• Speed up design with wizard-driven tools
• Minimize mistakes with linked elements
• Spend less time documenting

Predictably Evaluate Project Performance

• Easily check designs against criteria
• Simulate what-if scenarios
• Generate photorealistic renderings

Collect and Process Data Faster

• Manage data from a many sources
• Collect and process data simultaneously
• Enhance insight into existing conditions

Enhance Collaboration

• Share information more effectively
• Easily update the 3D design model
• Help identify problems earlier

Improve Predictability

• Work in 3D from the start
• Enable Minimize errors with automated processes
• Create more effective deliverables

Create Consistent Designs

• Design in an AutoCAD® environment
• Improve accuracy with rules-based standards
• Work quickly with templates and workflows

Optimize with Analysis

• Calculate voltage drop and flicker
• Calculate underground cable tension
• Calculate overhead sag for wind and ice

Deliver More Complete Documentation

• Deliver documentation in a single package
• Provide more complete engineering data
• Automate bills of materials creation

Win New Work

• Present more project alternatives
• Deliver realistic models and visuals
• More easily accommodate design-build projects

Minimize Project Risks

• Improve project team coordination
• Reduce construction documentation errors
• Identify issues before construction

Attract Top Talent

• Attract Autodesk-trained graduates
• Inspire innovation with modern technology
• Improve career development opportunities

Produce Better Design

• Reduce errors with model-based tools
• Optimize with integrated analysis
• Minimize documentation errors

Improve Coordination

• Coordinate information across teams
• Provide more complete, standardized data
• Identify issues earlier to reduce rework

Achieve Greater Transparency

• Attract accurate bids with better models
• Improve cost estimate accuracy
• Show impact with photorealistic visuals

Increase Design Efficiency

• Improve knowledge transfer
• Optimize workflows to reduce rework
• Incorporate industry design standards

Improve Materials Use

• Optimize materials with engineering analysis
• Improve design to construction processes
• Deliver accurate estimates

Improve Data Confidence

• Reduce time-consuming processes
• Minimize as-built backlogs
• Deliver design data to the enterprise

Explore Constructability Virtually

• Aggregate data for whole project review
• Understand scope of labor and materials
• Coordinate site and workflow planning

Improve Cost Reliability

• Rapidly generate material takeoffs
• Evaluate the cost of design alternatives
• Resolve conflicts before construction

Better Predict Project Outcomes

• Simulate schedules and logistics in 4D
• Assess and quantify scope changes
• Easily communicate plans to stakeholders