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AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Release 2i 1

Michael Schoenstein Autodesk GmbH, Hansastr. 28, 80686 Munich, [email protected] © Copyright 2000 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. Abstract. Land development projects require the skills of numerous design professionals: land and urban planners, surveyors, civil engineers. Whatever your contribution, whatever the size of your project, you need a CAD solution with topographic analysis functionality, real-world coordinate systems, volume totals, roadway geometry—all in an environment that promotes collaborative design and analysis. And you need to customize your CAD solution to fit the way you work. You can have it all with AutoCAD® Land Development Desktop Release 2i software—your platform for success.

The AutoCAD for Land Development AutoCAD Land Development Desktop 2i extends AutoCAD Map® 2000i software with discipline-specific land development features and functionality. These include powerful and intuitive tools that let you create and label survey points, define and edit parcels and roadway alignments, automate drafting procedures, create terrain models, and calculate volumes and contours. At the core is a centralized project structure that allows you to work more efficiently on any size or type of project. All of your critical data—points, terrain models, and alignments—is stored in a central location where it can be shared with others and used to create drawings. For example, 3D grids, contours, and sections are all extracted from a project’s terrain model. When the project changes, your entire project team can quickly react—all working from the same data.

Exploring Your Design Options AutoCAD Land Development Desktop 2i is perfect for experimenting with what-if scenarios: How does water flow across this site? What are the average slopes? What environmental responses may be needed? In just minutes you can combine existing drawing files (AutoCAD® DWG, MicroStation DGN, and others) with raster imagery, point data, and polygons from GIS sources (such as ESRI ARC/INFO coverages) and then build terrain models that display topographic conditions across the site. Not only do you have a drawing on which to explore design scenarios, but 1

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you’re also working with centralized project data that streamlines the process. Your projects can move more efficiently from the initial design phase all the way to final documentation. This release incorporates the new features and performance of AutoCAD 2000i, the latest release of AutoCAD software. Internet-enabled design is one benefit, and so is a 24 percent productivity gain over the previous release. It also provides land development–specific functionality including DEM and automated slope annotation. day to gain a critical competitive advantage.

Product Features AutoCAD® Land Development Desktop 2i software streamlines productivity for each phase of a project and provides a central location for project data that every professional on your team can access. It has tools for the entire design team and the entire design process. Setting Up the Project and the Drawings

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Store and retrieve drawings and project data as part of a project. Use real-world coordinates and exaggerated vertical scale.

Using All the Functionality of AutoCAD Map® 2000i

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Access and compile data from numerous sources, including AutoCAD® DWG, MicroStation DGN, ESRI ARC/INFO coverages, and many others. Create drawings and rubbersheet, digitize, and clean up automatically.

Creating and Managing COGO Point Data

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Have complete control over appearance and visibility of points in drawings. Store a virtually unlimited number of COGO points in external project databases. Create and retrieve point groups based on various data criteria. Associate additional point data, such as borehole values or external databases.

Creating Base Geometry

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Create lines based on bearing, azimuth, turned angle, length, and more. Produce curves based on a variety of graphical and geometric input methods. Lay out clothoid, sinusoidal, cosinusoidal, and quadratic spirals.