Civil Tools

When viewing Civil 3D drawings in Autodesk Forma, you can perform alignment awareness and civil infrastructure-specific design review workflows. The available tools enhance the design review process for infrastructure projects by allowing you to interact with models in the context of project alignments.

You can navigate along baseline geometry, track positions with stationing information, create cuts perpendicular to the baseline, and query the model. This functionality empowers a broad range of stakeholders, including BIM/CAD Managers, Project Managers, QA/QC personnel, and civil/design engineers. They can effectively collaborate on infrastructure projects within Autodesk Forma. This enhanced workflow streamlines access to critical model information, enabling more efficient and inclusive design reviews.

In addition, creating an issue while there is geometry selected in the Civil Tools panel will store the selection as part of the issue.

Understand Alignments in Civil Tools

You can recognize, highlight, and select linear geometry, or alignments, from infrastructure design.

While “alignment” is commonly used to describe linear geometry in Civil 3D, the actual 3D shape represented is the profile, which combines both horizontal and vertical geometry. Because of this, civil tools require the profile geometry of the drawing to be visible in the 3D view. This is accomplished by specifying profile settings in Civil 3D before uploading to Autodesk Forma, as described in View Civil 3D Drawings.

Create Issues with Civil Alignments

In Autodesk Forma, you can create issues in the viewer, in the context of the open models or views, and their associated clash data. If you create an issue while there is geometry selected in the Civil Tools panel, the selection is saved as part of the issue. When another project member opens the issue, the Civil Tools panel state is restored including the profile selection, current station, and cut plane. Visual settings such as profile highlight, station tracker, and sectioning are included in the issue snapshot.