AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Release 2i

Michael Schoenstein
Autodesk GmbH, Hansastr. 28,
80686 Munich, Germany
michael.schoenstein@autodesk.com
© Copyright 2000 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.

Abstract. Land development projects require the skills of numerous design

professionals: land and urban planners, surveyors, civil engineers. Whatever
your contribution, whatever the size of your project, you need a CAD solution
with topographic analysis functionality, real-world coordinate systems, volume
totals, roadway geometry—all in an environment that promotes collaborative
design and analysis. And you need to customize your CAD solution to fit the
way you work. You can have it all with AutoCAD® Land Development
Desktop Release 2i software—your platform for success.

The AutoCAD for Land Development

AutoCAD Land Development Desktop 2i extends AutoCAD Map® 2000i software

with discipline-specific land development features and functionality. These include
powerful and intuitive tools that let you create and label survey points, define and edit
parcels and roadway alignments, automate drafting procedures, create terrain models,
and calculate volumes and contours.
At the core is a centralized project structure that allows you to work more
efficiently on any size or type of project. All of your critical data—points, terrain
models, and alignments—is stored in a central location where it can be shared with
others and used to create drawings. For example, 3D grids, contours, and sections are
all extracted from a project’s terrain model. When the project changes, your entire
project team can quickly react—all working from the same data.

Exploring Your Design Options

AutoCAD Land Development Desktop 2i is perfect for experimenting with what-if

scenarios: How does water flow across this site? What are the average slopes? What
environmental responses may be needed? In just minutes you can combine existing
drawing files (AutoCAD® DWG, MicroStation DGN, and others) with raster
imagery, point data, and polygons from GIS sources (such as ESRI ARC/INFO
coverages) and then build terrain models that display topographic conditions across
the site. Not only do you have a drawing on which to explore design scenarios, but

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you’re also working with centralized project data that streamlines the process. Your
projects can move more efficiently from the initial design phase all the way to final
documentation.
This release incorporates the new features and performance of AutoCAD
2000i, the latest release of AutoCAD software. Internet-enabled design is one benefit,
and so is a 24 percent productivity gain over the previous release. It also provides
land development–specific functionality including DEM support and automated slope
annotation. Upgrade today to gain a critical competitive advantage.

Product Features

AutoCAD® Land Development Desktop 2i software streamlines productivity for each

phase of a project and provides a central location for project data that every
professional on your team can access. It has tools for the entire design team and the
entire design process.

Setting Up the Project and the Drawings

• Store and retrieve drawings and project data as part of a project.

• Use real-world coordinates and exaggerated vertical scale.

Using All the Functionality of AutoCAD Map® 2000i

• Access and compile data from numerous sources, including AutoCAD® DWG,
MicroStation DGN, ESRI ARC/INFO coverages, and many others.
• Create drawings and rubbersheet, digitize, and clean up automatically.

Creating and Managing COGO Point Data

• Have complete control over appearance and visibility of points in drawings.

• Store a virtually unlimited number of COGO points in external project databases.
• Create and retrieve point groups based on various data criteria.
• Associate additional point data, such as borehole values or external databases.

Creating Base Geometry

• Create lines based on bearing, azimuth, turned angle, length, and more.
• Produce curves based on a variety of graphical and geometric input methods.
• Lay out clothoid, sinusoidal, cosinusoidal, and quadratic spirals.