As I mentioned in my last post, I have been told by a number of professionals that Civil 3D is overkill for their needs. These professionals are involved in small residential and commercial projects. Projects so small that creating a FG surface is more than the budget can handle. For many of these people, Civil 3D seems to be too much for their needs. I will offer another practice my firm uses on simple engineering plans to get the most out of these projects using Civil 3D.
Pool and septic plans are ideal examples of simple plans. The finished product may require a few elevation labels if the new features are designed close to existing grade. Perhaps a contour line or two will appear on the plan. Often an FG surface is deemed overkill since there is no need for profiles, cross sections or even soil movement numbers. We do a lot of septic plans and we have come up with a way to get a dynamic septic field model that makes the process much faster than we have ever seen with AutoCAD or Land Desktop.
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