New Features

New Features in Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2016

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2016 contains the following new features and enhancements.

The Create Surface From Point Cloud command has been integrated and is now available on the ribbon. The command now provides the ability to adjust the default distance between points in order to change the percentage of points that will be included in the surface.

The following features in the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Productivity Pack 1 have been integrated:

The ability to bring Autodesk InfraWorks 360 data into AutoCAD Civil 3D by referencing a local InfraWorks 360 model has been integrated. The feature has been enhanced with the ability to bring InfraWorks 360 bridges into AutoCAD Civil 3D as 3D solids. For more information, see About Exchanging Data Between AutoCAD Civil 3D and Autodesk InfraWorks.
The ability to create AutoCAD solids from TIN surfaces, pipe networks, and pressure networks has been integrated. For more information, see To Create AutoCAD Solids from AutoCAD Civil 3D TIN Surfaces and To Create AutoCAD Solids from AutoCAD Civil 3D Pipe Networks and Pressure Networks.

An option is now available for creating exclusionary catchments, which exclude other catchments.

An option is now available for selecting alignments by layer to use as width and offset targets for corridors.

The ability to import and export Industry Foundation Class (IFC) files has been added.

You can use the Manage Data Shortcuts command to repair broken data shortcuts and to replace drawing objects with data shortcuts.

You can now label the locations in profile views where pipes and pressure pipes cross an alignment. You can also label the locations in section views where pressure pipes cross a sample line. New properties are available in the Label Style Composer dialog box to support these label types. For more information, see To Label Crossing Pipe Locations in Profile Views and Section Views and To Label Crossing Pressure Pipe Locations in Profile Views and Section Views.
New commands are available for labeling pressure networks in section views.

The Prospector tree can now display project objects that exist in subfolders within the object type folders.
You can now create data references to objects that exist in different Vault projects.

A new Loop Geometry tool is available for repeating specified links until they reach a Surface Target or until they are repeated a specified number of times. The following new sample PKT file is available:
- Loop_Geometry_Example.pkt
You can access the sample PKT files at http://www.autodesk.com/civil3d-subassembly-pkt-files-2016.

For information about new features in AutoCAD, please see the New Features Overview Video and the New Commands and System Variables Reference in the AutoCAD Help.

The following items provide information about some of the new AutoCAD features that specifically enhance civil infrastructure workflows:

You can now attach Autodesk Navisworks coordination models to drawings as external references. For more information, see To Work With Coordination Models.
AutoCAD 2016 includes a number of enhancements for working with point clouds. For more information, see About Working With Point Clouds.

For information about new features in AutoCAD Map 3D, please see the New in This Release topic in the AutoCAD Map 3D Help.