Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Ultimate 2014, EDU

Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Ultimate 2014 - New License, 1 additional user, EDU ,NLM <b>3D design tools for civil infrastructure</b>

Infrastructure Design Suite is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure design and engineering solution that combines intelligent, model-based tools to help you gain more accurate, accessible, and actionable insight. Unique access to Autodesk civil infrastructure software provides benefits throughout the execution and lifecycle of transportation, land, utility, and water projects.

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Understand and communicate project dependencies better
- Explore and communicate design concepts
- Get projects approved faster and help win work
- Promote greater visibility into project constructability

Maintain more consistent data, context, processes
- Aggregate data from a variety of formats
- Develop more consistent, accurate construction documentation
- Apply industry standards more easily

Respond more quickly to change
- Gain greater flexibility to make design changes
- Apply discipline-specific tools for a more streamlined process
- Optimize designs by conducting engineering analysis

Aggregate and visualize data more effectively
- Manage data from many sources
- Build large data-rich city models
- Enhance insight into existing conditions

Analyze information to help inform decisions
- Conduct spatial analysis to help see trends
- Facilitate identification of priority locations
- Analyze impacts of new developments

Communicate project options more easily
- More quickly model and visualize alternatives
- Show intent with realistic visuals more effectively
- Create thematic maps to support reporting requirements

Create more consistent designs
- Design in an AutoCAD environment
- Improve accuracy with rules-based standards
- Work more 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 bill of materials creation

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Create better proposals
- Demonstrate a better understanding of project needs
- Create more realistic proposals of design alternatives
- Communicate options more effectively

Minimize project dependencies
- Create visualizations to help validate design decisions
- Help minimize construction documentation errors
- Facilitate the identification of issues before construction

Improve profitability
- Use tools to help decrease hours on fixed-cost projects
- Accommodate last-minute changes more easily
- Support productivity with more consistent data

Produce better designs
- Minimize errors with model-based tools
- Optimize with integrated analysis
- Minimize documentation errors

Improve coordination
- Share information with teams and stakeholders
- Generate documentation that is a by-product of the design
- Help identify issues earlier to minimize errors in the field

Achieve greater transparency
- Attract more competitive bids
- Improve cost estimate accuracy
- Demonstrate impact with more realistic visuals

Promote design efficiency
- Improve knowledge transfer
- Optimize workflows to minimize rework
- Incorporate industry design standards

Improve materials use
- Optimize materials with engineering analysis
- Improve design to construction processes
- Deliver more accurate estimates

Improve data confidence
- Help 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 better
- Coordinate site and workflow planning more effectively

Improve cost reliability
- Generate material takeoffs more rapidly
- Evaluate the cost of design alternatives
- Help resolve conflicts before construction

Improve prediction of project outcomes
- Simulate schedules and logistics in 4D
- Assess and quantify scope changes
- Communicate plans to stakeholders more easily