Build a modern infrastructure suite the right way, and eventually everyone will abandon Civil 3D for your product. Honestly, there is a huge gap here that someone can come in and fill. It's absurd that I can't dynamically link Station-Offsets to a table without hacking around and making fake Drainage Inlets everywhere. There are so many features missing from the program, but that's okay because we can design or pay someone to design a custom plugin? Fuck that. Their business philosophy is absolute shit. A higher-clock speed dual core would run circles around the top of the line quad-core processors we have for AutoCAD purposes. Multi-Core computers are near useless for ACAD and serve only to let you have other programs open at the same time. Corridors are built with old-school feature lines and can't be snapped to when XREF'd, nor can they be brought in with a data shortcut. The codebase is so freaking dated and incredibly unstable for complex drawings that we have to put 3D objects in their own drawings. It's far from what I would consider a good solution, but it really is the best we have.ĭynamic corridors, survey databases, and dynamic pipe networks are invaluable to a team that requires integrated, accurate, and fast design.Īll of the core concepts are there and work, but it is far, far, from optimal. I've modeled using a wide variety of programs and several industries, but as the industry got bigger (auto, rockets, planes) and the company required more inter-departmental CAD engineering, it seemed only Catia and NX were the preferred systems.Ĭivil 3D has alleviated the uselessness of AutoCAD in the Civil department. The licenses available for Catia are sold A-la carte from Dassault, selling you exactly what you ask for for a price they calculate based on your needs. Solidworks is great for smaller assemblies and can output complex CAD geometry just as well, catering almost towards the small business/beginner college level cad users.Ĭatia is a database powerhouse which has a shitty user interface but in the end has more of a robust capability for large scale modeling and structuring. Solidworks and Catia are both owned by Dassault but I like to see the two products as separate work functions. In terms of modeling, I much prefer Solidworks in terms of user interface and ease of use. Catia is so expensive because of the ala-carte type service that Dassault likes to provide.
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