--- title: Civil 3D Reviews meta_title: 'Civil 3D Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 305 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Civil 3D works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 305 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-08' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Civil 3D Reviews **Vendor:** Autodesk **Category:** [Civil Engineering Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/civil-engineering-design) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 305 ## About Civil 3D Autodesk® Civil 3D® software is a civil engineering design and documentation solution that supports Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows on civil infrastructure projects, including roads and highways, rail, site development, airports, and water. Civil 3D helps civil infrastructure professionals improve project delivery, reduce risk, errors, and omissions, and respond faster to project changes. Additionally, users can streamline time-consuming tasks such as corridor design, (road and rail), intersection design, parcel layout, site grading, and piping design with specific tools and customizable design standards.  Civil 3D pricing starts at $275.00 per month, per user. Civil 3D does offer a free trial. Flexible subscription options available. Talk to sales at: (818) 797-9909 ## Civil 3D Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **exceptional design capabilities** of Civil 3D, highlighting its unlimited functions for civil works. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **customizable tools** of Civil 3D, enhancing speed and accuracy in civil engineering projects. (2 reviews) - Users value the **versatility** of Civil 3D, leveraging dynamic modeling and precision for accurate construction documentation. (2 reviews) - Users value the **customizable designs and tools** in Civil 3D, enhancing efficiency in civil engineering projects. (1 reviews) - Users value the **road design and feature line modelling functions** of Civil 3D for their efficiency and effectiveness. (1 reviews) - Users value the **precision of geolocation mapping** in Civil 3D, ensuring accurate site positioning for construction projects. (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Modeling (1 reviews) - Powerful Fun (1 reviews) - Software Power (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users often experience **data loss** issues with Civil 3D, particularly when handling multiple files or large projects. (2 reviews) - Users face **performance issues with large files** in Civil 3D, causing slowdowns and workflow disruptions on less powerful devices. (2 reviews) - Users face **performance issues** with Civil 3D, particularly when working on large projects, causing slowdowns and crashes. (2 reviews) - Users face **slow performance** with Civil 3D, particularly with large files, impacting productivity and work efficiency. (2 reviews) - Users report that **app stability issues** arise when using multiple grading tools, causing Civil 3D to crash frequently. (1 reviews) - Users face **export issues** with Civil 3D, often needing manual copy/paste for data analysis in external software. (1 reviews) - Users find the **high hardware requirements** for Civil 3D challenging, affecting performance and stability during projects. (1 reviews) - Revit Compatibility (1 reviews) - Slow Loading (1 reviews) - Software Instability (1 reviews) ## Civil 3D Reviews ### 1. Nice software a bit clouded with all the stuff on the ribbons. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy H. | Highway Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** How fast the software is when I need to get answers for bosses and other people. I like how I can customize things for people and other staff members. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** How clouded with stuff on the ribbons, and how small the ribbons are. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to model and show people how their land is going to be impacted. ### 2. Complex but Thorough **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark C. | Director of Design Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Surface and Pipe Profiling Tools save hours of time compared to generating Profiles by traditional Drafting methods **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Grading Object instability is the biggest drawback to the Grading Tools **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Be prepared for a lot of Front End Set-up before rolling it out to users. Get professional help with implementation. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Site Balance, Natural Resource Sustainability. Cost Overrun ### 3. Great for civil designers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The power of pipe networks, alignments and on-the-fly updates. C3D is an incredibly powerful tool for most site design and existing conditions. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The COGO portion of the program is lacking and not as intuitive as many add-ons or competitors. Surveyors are best suited to use other programs. Should really get more professional land surveyor input and tailor it to them and not necessarily recent college grads who only know the theory of survey. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently using to map existing above ground and underground infrastruture in a 3D environment for a complex treatment plant. ### 4. Good additions for any civil design. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesus Martin C. | Civil Designer, Civil Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I enjoy the flow of the program, it allows you to personalize to a user needs. Additionally the many ways to connect to more of the autodesk extensions and other programs. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** I do not enjoy at times the complicated it is to navigate through. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Surfaces, cost estimates, and fast calculations. ### 5. All we use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cory C. | Lead Drafter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** great for projects from site survey to completion of project and showing all stages in between **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** some of the surface and corridor information isn't dynamic **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** excellent at bringing all aspects of a project together so everyone is on the same page **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** mapping roadways ans infrastructure for our parish residents ### 6. C Fiene Review of Civil 3D **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher F. | CADD Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Coming from a competitors software, the dynamic updates to designs are extremeny helpul **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The sometimes slow or bloated file reactions, **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use civil 3d for a multitude of uses from roadway designs to site developments, Civil 3ds has benefited our organization by utilizing the dynamic updates readily ### 7. Civil 3D is the Best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen S. | CAD/IT Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Civil 3d makes workflows more efficiant Civil 3D allows my team to work faster and smarter to produce full design plan sets in less time **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Some of the new features like Pressure pipes need more attention paid to them **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better design for retaining walls. Faster/Smarter Grading plans ### 8. SPK Lidar tiles **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dennis D. | Engineer Civil, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** lidar point tiles to surface. I take the surface then exclude to the high water mark. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** not able to reduce the data files. .5 g to 1 g of data that the network system can not handle. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** bathemetry. The civil is showing the ripples and the thalwgs. ### 9. nice tools but still new thinks needed **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** alphons s. | designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** sub assembly composer and the standaard autocad options for the presentation of 2D drawings **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** from 3D to 2D presentation this always need a lot of settings to be set and for some styles you need to set it on to manie places **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** landreclamations and river training ### 10. This better than hand drafting. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** It helps automates some processes like creating profiles, establishing existing grade at specific points. Creating surfaces helps better the site design of the project. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The limiitations of coordinating between disciplines who use revit. Pressure pipes for water design are difficult when rotating horizontal bends or proivding elements such as fire hydrants. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** It super useful for utility design, grading and site geometry. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of profiling helps with pipe clashes and minimum cover requirements. The surface provides easier information with regards to minimum slope requirements. ### 11. Design Smarter **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Being able to produce plan sheets in a 2D deliverable but designing in a 3D environment. Civil 3D unlocks the possibility for engineers to design and build smarter. Allows cross software integration. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** I dislike some of the limitations it has from Revit. One big disadvantage is the lack of integration and smart entities that Revit is capable of. With the new 2020 launch, I am excited to use it with BIM360 and the new dynamo add on. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Corridor modeling is a lifesaver! ### 12. Interactive and Scenarios **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael S. | Application Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Interactive civil design and allowing for multiple design scenarios within a single application **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Long launch times and stability when working through designs with temp files **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping our local communities and our neighbors live more connected lives. Better Infrastructure in those communities ### 13. Sheetsets & Data Shortcuts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sathaphone C. | CAD Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like how data shortcuts work and allow multiple drawings to see designs from other drawings. I like how to sheetsets connects to fields in multiple drawings. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** frequency of how often products are updated **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** designing residential and commercial projects ### 14. Powerful tool for all in one Civil Engineering design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Seth S. | Assistant Professor, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The ability to go from Survey to Construction all in one software **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Some parts of the software can be glitchy at times **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teaching civil design to college students, Civil 3D has been very user friendly for the students ### 15. Unlimited Possibilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like Civil 3d because I get to create and build things. There are so many different tools to learn. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** While using autocad, there are small little tasks that error the program, and make the program fatal error and crash. With this advanced technology, I would guess the little bugs could be fixed. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** I design water mains with Civil 3D, so it is helping me provide clean reliable drinking water to the paying customers, ### 16. Autocad Civil 3D is the best design software I've used to date **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mark c. | CAD Drafter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** There are many features I like, however the surface design features and editing tools are fantastic, as well as the ability to customize workspaces and tools. In recent versions the export/import tools have been improved as well, especially with respect to pdfs and other imgs. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** I do think there are some areas that could be addressed. The main thing is the fact that the drawing file format changes every few years. Any version that is older than the most up to date version of CV3D can not open drawings and/or projects created with the most recent version. This creates a headache and hassle when trying to collaborate w/ other clients and companies who are using an older version of the software. It is unreasonable to expect everybody to instantly upgrade to the newest version of CV3D. It definitely needs to be backwards compatible, at all times. Integrating google earth for overlaying maps should be a priority as well. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** I would tell others don't hesitate if you are a Surveying/Civil Engineering company. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** With CV3D we can provide concept to finish sets of plans, surveying, design, construction layout & staking and are the "one stop shop" for clients. ### 17. Best Program Ever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Surface Creation with various methods Section and profle cration and you can change start and end You can create fauture lines manually **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Worse part is the cost of program I want the program at my home to work and study better. There should be another solution to work different environments. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** In Civil projects, The only programme you need. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** By creation surface, it is really good function to have different methods and you can change elevation data manually. ### 18. I use Civil3D **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Grading tools - grading tools make it really easy to grade sites. Corridors - great way to create designs of more than just roadways. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Pipe networks, especially pressure pipe networks. They seem undeveloped and clunky. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Improve pipe network abilities, allow us to name surface profiles in the surface profile creation window (instead of "Surface (47)") **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Site design and site grading - able to quickly and accurately give a FG surface and earthwork volume ### 19. It gets better! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guy C. | Chief of Parties, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Civil 3d keeps getting better with each revision. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The tool bars are getting too complicated but that could just be my old eyes. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working with Civil 3d to support Trimble Business Center. ### 20. CAD Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Louis D. | CAD Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Starting coordination using BIM 360 in the program **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Speed of data in the cloud process when dealing with large data sets especially with attached GIS and aerial imagery **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** data sharing among team members ### 21. Civil Designer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian B. | Civil Designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** dynamics, connection with all the different objects **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** locking up / versions / pressure pipe styles **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Great way to communicate all civil aspects on a project **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** piping and grading. everything is connected ### 22. I use Civil3D because it is the only tool which meets client needs **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Backwards compatibility, I'm always able to open archived data. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** It gets slower every release. The development process seems to be to add more functions on top of existing ones and never to replace existing functions with better ones. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Minimize your exposure **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solve no unique challenges with Civil3D. Every process I do with it other software can do, but Civil3D is what internal and external clients expect ### 23. Solid CAD package for Roadway Design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John-Mark P. | CADD Applications Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Easy to do corridor modeling, and easy to make changes compared to PowerGeopak Good options for customization Good integration with GIS, including ESRI products Good integration with Infraworks, making it easy to go from conceptual design in Infraworks and import the concept into Civil 3D as a corridor model. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** software crashes often not as easy to use as Infraworks **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Roadway design. Benefits include better stability and ability to handle large datasets compared to 32 bit PowerGeopak. Mandatory corridor modeling in order to build a roadway plan set (and cut cross sections) is a plus because having a 3D model of the roadway makes it easier to find things that could be issues during construction: i.e. curb ramp slopes, conflicts ### 24. C3D Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Glenn R. | Project Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Updating to make it more efficient every tyear **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Compatiblity with older versions is locked out with newer versions **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Site Civil Design, joining site and road grading w/ utilities ### 25. Excellent program to express your creativity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The capability of the program. Your ideas come to life. This is an excellent tool for designing water systems. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Some of the updates change my preferences or some of the useful shortcuts are not available. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Use it, use it, use it... its an excellent tool **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me with pipeline design. I can create a horizontal/vertical profiles for a 300-miles water system. ### 26. Civil 3D **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Civil 3D allows you to layer information and make changes that help you update your deliverables and design quickly (especially when vertically). **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** It is not that easy to make changes on the fly when they are horizontal. WOuld be great to collaborate like you can in other software on the same drawing for large sites. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design Speed is better after the learning curve ### 27. Insanely powerful tool for all aspects of Civil Design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The software has endless possibilities for application for a Civil Engineer **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** This software takes up an enormous amount of computer power. Prepare adequately before investing in the software **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Civil 3D is being used for hydrological analysis and grading analysis. ### 28. What's There is Great, But it's than I Need ... **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Civil 3D is a fantastic civil product with lots of automation and customizability. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Civil 3D as a single product has too high a barrier to entry in cost and training. Even veteran users only make use of about 20% of the application. You are selling brain surgery when what we need are aspirin. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not really an asipirational problem solving user ### 29. Very improved since it’s roll-out **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dana M. R. | CAD Specialist, Government Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Autodesk incorporates our wishlist and has improved **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Grading groups are too fragile and too easy to break **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Corridors used to grade ### 30. Civil 3d from a Land Surveyor's prospective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like how we can easily share our survey data with other departments in our firm to help them with their design. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Although it has many survey features, i feel these were not created by actual surveyors. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are basemapping existing conditions from Survey data. From the field to finished product seems to go relatively smoothly. ### 31. Best 3D modeling experience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mary N. | Site Engineer, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Has very scalable multi-user System. Has reliable clash detection system. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** No any dislike so far total satifaction is in felt among us. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Engineering vital asset. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Has ensured engineering revolution in our company. ### 32. Civil Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like the automation of Civil 3D. I also like the variety of designs you can use the software for. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** I don't like how slow the drawing become with a larger project. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've done multiple projects such as roadways, utilities, subdivisions, and more. The benefits are the automation of updates when there are design changes. ### 33. From Terramodel to Civil 3D: A long journey **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bernard L. | Sr. Civil CAD tech / CAD Manager, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like how C3D objects are linked together so that if the surface changes, the profiles change, and the cross sections change. Much easier to make edits without having to worry about all the other objects you have to change. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The learning curve is pretty steep. It takes quite a while to learn everything. We didn't have anyone to help with templates and styles when we first started. That delayed getting going in the program. I have assumed that role for the last five years so I've had to learn the ins and outs of C3D. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** It is well worth it to make the switch. Get some help with the templates and styles to start, then learn as you go. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are better able to work across multiple satellite offices in multiple locations since we are all using the same software now. There is a lot of power in C3D and great features. ### 34. Civil 3D for municipal projects. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry B. | Engineering Tech, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The integrated data base. I know it has been around awhile but having started in Land Desktop where any change required you rebuild each piece of your model having changes cascade through the model is incredible. I do many more design iterations due to the fact that I get such quick feedback. Whoever built this Thank you. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** I would like to see expanded tutorials or maybe classes on your products with overviews of what the designers envision the product being used for. InfraWorks looks like a great tool to use for initial public meetings however I am finding the tutorials lacking. Recruit some people who use the program to give a class their view is different then the software designers. When I reset text style in MLeader the changes cascade, great .... until it resets all the attachment points that I have customized. The GIS import shp is great I end up using it a lot. Take a look at the import data dialog box very clunky hard to select and deselect attributes to bring in. Also is it possible to create some sort of auto label and look at gdb files as we are using them more. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has accelerated the time we can get projects out to bid. ### 35. Lot of Survey & Civil Design small jobs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The updating of components that are all linked dynamically **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The slowness of working with X-refs. Almost all in this industry use multiple x-refs in any particular project and the memory management with x-refs attached is abysmal. We have small jobs, I can't imagine how firms with very large sites with details X-refs can function efficiently with these issues **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Make sure you have a big machine with a big graphics card and fast data flow to your storage directories if they are on a server or NAS **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy Surfaces, Property resolution and property mosaics. Easy overlay into GIS ### 36. Powerful for Civil Engineering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like how it easily incorporates AutoCad. Makes grading easy and the pipe networks are easy to understand. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The program has a lot of bugs from version to version. Also it is not easily backward compatible. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to simplify workflow, also to design more efficiently and quickly. The benefits I have is seen is, I can draw objects in a 2D plan view and quickly realize it in profiles and 3D environments. ### 37. Very useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** the automation and intelligence of objects in all aspects of civil design **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** stability and performance. As good as it is the crashes and lack of consistency in performance at times is frustating **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** develop and work on a workflow in addition to the implementation plan **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** eathworks volumetrics for mining design ### 38. Civil 3D **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Grading tools in Civil 3D are great. We love finding the best workflows for our tasks. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Handling LiDAR data for creation of topographic land surfaces. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Custom templates for your workflows are critical. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** We create solutions to erosion control and water quality issues on private lands across the entire US. ### 39. Works but needs work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** Dynamic updating of Civil 3D Objects. Surface tools and corridors. Annotation and analysis tools **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Performance issues, crashing and minor fixes that should be easy have not been addressed by Autodesk for YEARS! **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** File performance with multiple Civil 3D objects in source file. SLOW file opening with multiple data shortcuts. ### 40. Great UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The user interface of the program. It's easy to navigate and makes efficiency better. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** The installation part. It is a large installation package and takes a while to install. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Get training **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Civil 3D has solved multiple problems for the company. Being able to visualize the end result is great. ### 41. easy, faster and good visualization effects **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Libu K. | Assistant Engineer, Highways & Drainage,UK, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The main advantage of Civil 3D is that its very user friendly, easier to understand and easier to work on. Autodesk Civil 3D has so many Plugins which is connected to diffrent models we are working on which makes us design the drainage models in different softwares and easily load it in Civil 3D using different plugins.I am maily working on Drainage side and modelling. The models i prepare in Drawnet or Microdrainage can easily be loaded in Civil 3d and can easily be mdelled as it is compatibile with almost every design softwares. Even the highway design can done using Civil 3D. The main advantage is that the realistic visualization effects the Autodesk Civil 3D provides make the designing and the correction faster and eaier. The visualization makes it easy for us to find the errors on a regular basis and can be easily resolved. The user interface is so user friendly and self explanatory. Once you are used to the commands, the working will become more easier and faster. The autosave option is a lifesaver as the software might crash sometimes. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Spmetimes the Civil 3D will clash after showing some fatal error. So its always better to save the drawings on a regular basis rather than trying it to save it in the end. Takes time to load the drawings which are bit heavy and larger sized files. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** once you are used to the interface, it will be easy to work on **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good visualization effects and good user interface ### 42. Great design product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** dynamic ability to change design elements to meet your needs **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** point customization is limited to only the number, elevation and description. would be nice to add other entities to be able to add label functionality **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** site volume computations are quick and can help in the design process ### 43. Civil 3D Technical Specialist **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yvonne S. | Principle, Sr. Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** That I can fairly easily come up with conceptual to full construction documents with ease. Corridor design has gotten better but wish there was more easily ways to manipulate when design changes. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** THE CRASHING! That it no longer is connected to google earth. I wish the corridor editor gave us more control. Grading features could use more ways to manipulate when design changes. **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** use CADMasters for your reseller if your a small company with no IT department. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been forced to use this product as there is no other product on the market. As far as benefits, my clients like what I produce. ### 44. Hancock's Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I enjoy the grading tools, and the ability to model surfaces to multiple levels of accuracy **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** I dislike having to deselect every object every time I exit a C3D properties menu **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** Have someone more familiar with the program create templates, styles, etc. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Land development problems. ### 45. Very LIkely! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like the advancements that have been made recently in grading surface. Especially with relative featurelines. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** Surface Triangulation can still be cumbersome and time consuming **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining models throughout permitting and construction provides us the ability to make changes quicker and more efficiently. ### 46. water mains **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like the ability to customize blocks and the ease of use. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** pressure pipes lack of parts and inability of changing pressure parts in profile in c3d 2019 **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Installation of new water mains with minimal disturbance to other utility's and customers. ### 47. It has been a roller coaster **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** I like the dynamic nature. It does a good job of organizing information and making it available to edit. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** C3D needs great improvement in annotation and plan production functionality. Tools for keeping track of design decisions are also lacking. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transportation Infrastructure ### 48. The best for infrastructure **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** The ability to model, design and create drawings for many infrastructure projects all in one program. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** some times the software can be slow and laggy with large surfaces and corridors. **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** identifying alignments and corridor selection for highway and rail projects. ### 49. CAD Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** getting better and better into integrating more functionality that will increase productivity in any level of the design **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** options that are removed without notice and that affects the work flow **Recommendations to others considering Civil 3D:** very useful, easy to integrate into your workflow **What problems is Civil 3D solving and how is that benefiting you?** more productive ### 50. Easy Peasy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Civil 3D?** C3D is very user friendly despite it being a strong software that can do a lot of functions. **What do you dislike about Civil 3D?** VR compatibility. 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