Autodesk

As a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk delivers the broadest product portfolio, helping over 9 million customers, including every member of the Fortune 100, to continually innovate through the digital design, visualization, and simulation of real-world project performance. From architecture, manufacturing, transportation, and utilities to telecommunications, video games, television, and film, Autodesk customers are leading the 2D and 3D design world by improving their design processes through increased efficiency and productivity. In fact, the last 14 Academy Award® winners for Best Visual Effects used Autodesk® software. By enhancing collaboration and communication and digitally improving the real-world performance of projects before they are built, Autodesk customers are solving their business challenges, avoiding costly rework, accelerating project cycles and time to market, and ultimately gaining competitive advantage.

Autodesk in utilities

Industry leading 2D and 3D digital design technology from Autodesk (www.autodesk.com/utilities) improves the way utility infrastructure gets built and managed. Extend the accuracy, precision, and value of infrastructure information to design, build, operate, and maintain water, wastewater, and electric and gas networks more efficiently and sustainably.

Autodesk design technology can help improve how our nation's water utilities design, update and manage aging water utility infrastructure to support urbanization.  Autodesk water/waste water solutions make it easier to consolidate and share accurate model-based design information for reporting and decision analysis and to help improve productivity, efficiency and responsiveness.  Only Autodesk provides extensive and coordinated model-based water/waste water utility solutions that span design to management, and provide improved data availability for everyone that needs to keep data and water flowing.

Autodesk technology will help improve how our electric and gas utilities provide and manage sustainable power generation, address grid modernization and intelligent grid initiatives.  Autodesk electric and gas solutions can help improve productivity, efficiency and responsiveness by making it easier to consolidate and share accurate information.   Only Autodesk provides extensive and coordinated model-based gas and electric utility solutions that span design to management. Autodesk solutions can help you get to data you need to perform your job quickly and provide easy sharing of design and as-built information ­- helping keep the lights on and the gas flowing. 

Design matters: Design is the entry point to the utility network modeling process.  Efficient, standardized designs and design processes are critical to safe, reliable, and sustainable operations.  With Autodesk solutions, utilities can leverage design across the infrastructure lifecycle.  Network modeling, an intelligent and comprehensive process of visualizing, simulating, and analyzing utility infrastructure assets, is critical for utilities managing today's complex and intelligent networks and assets. 

Autodesk Utility software products help improve design processes and increase operational efficiency by leveraging design information across the utility asset lifecycle.  With purpose-built products on the AutoCAD foundation, utilities can more quickly and accurately design and map distribution networks, and can integrate, access and share design, as-built and geospatial data across business processes to extend the reach and value of infrastructure asset information.  Autodesk products remove data silos, provide tools to build standardization and accuracy into the engineering process, and integrate design and as-built data.  Electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities can now share better quality data between engineering, GIS and field operations teams which helps to support all aspects of the asset lifecycle, including sustainability, intelligent grid, and grid modernization initiatives.  Autodesk software products used to design and manage utility infrastructure include the following:

General design

AutoCAD^® software - Create schematics, lay out floor plans, and perform general design and drafting on the world's leading CAD software.

Distribution Network Design

AutoCAD® Raster Design software - Easily incorporate satellite data, photos, scanned drawings, and other raster imagery into your designs.

Autodesk^® Utility Design software (North America only) - Design, analyze and document electric and gas distribution networks with a comprehensive design and construction documentation solution.

AutoCAD® Civil 3D software - Design, analyze, and document utility water distribution networks with a comprehensive design and construction documentation solution.

Network Model Management

AutoCAD^® Map 3D software - Bridge the gap between design and geospatial engineering to create and maintain maps, network layouts, and facility data in a familiar AutoCAD environment.

Autodesk® Topobase^TM software - Maintain a complete network asset model in a relational database -integrate information to your asset management and operational engineering systems.

Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities Design

AutoCAD® Civil 3D software - Design, analyze, and document utility distribution networks with a comprehensive design and construction documentation solution

Autodesk® Revit® Structure software - extends building information modeling (BIM) for structural engineering firms from design to fabrication.

AutoCAD^® MEP software - tools made specifically for building systems design, improve design accuracy by automating drafting tasks, and better coordinate design information by sharing designs among architects, structural engineers, and other design professionals using the well-known DWG file format.

AutoCAD^® P&ID software - Create, modify, and manage piping and instrumentation diagrams. Built on the AutoCAD® platform, AutoCAD P&ID is familiar, easy to use, and boosts productivity.

Collaboration

Autodesk^® Buzzsaw^® software - Simplify and centralize all project-related documents and information, enabling the successful execution of your projects based on timely decisions and accurate information

Autodesk^® Design Review software - Easily and securely view, print, measure, and annotate design information in the office or n the field accelerating reviews.

Autodesk MapGuide^® Enterprise software - Quickly and easily deliver design and spatial data for operations visualization, vehicle tracking, mobile work orders, and field data access.

Autodesk^® LandXplorer^TM Studio Professional software - Create digital city models, so public, government, construction, and business community stakeholders can visualize urban designs and infrastructure projects before they're built

Autodesk^® NavisWorks^® Manage software - Reliably share, combine, review, and polish detailed 3D design models of any size in multiple formats.