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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

New Orleans 2022

Where is your next project?

Can you imagine what would happen if you could have a complete view of your area right at the moment you really need it? Even before you draw the first line in a blank AutoCAD or Civil 3D drawing at the very beginning of the preliminary design? Many good things, but given that redesigns and reworks are among the most significant threats to the practicability and sustainability of construction projects worldwide, you would avoid bad decisions and design errors that could lead to time wastage, schedule derailing and cost overruns. In this 30-minute class, Dr. Nick Chanakoulas, Civil Engineer and Head of Customer Success at Plex-Earth, introduces the concept of Remote Surveying. Through project cases, you will learn how to apply its holistic approach by integrating aerial and satellite time-based imagery, detailed terrain modeling, 3D drone data, and real-world design validation techniques in Google Earth's environment, as part of your design process. So, where is your next project?

New Orleans 2022

Leveraging Civil 3D Property Sets for Design and Collaboration

As designers, we tend to focus on what is in front of us when it comes to developing our models and preparing construction drawings for delivery. If we take a step back and think about this more holistically, we can formulate ideas as to how this type of property set data can be leveraged in our daily workflows as well as later down the road. We are currently experiencing a major digital transformation where our Civil 3D models are becoming part of the actual digital deliverable. This will ultimately provide our design teams, clients, and contractors with meaningful data that can be leveraged for interdisciplinary coordination, construction, and asset management purposes. In this session, I'll share tips and tricks on how to leverage metadata and property set data throughout the design development phase to prepare our design models for future integrations into construction and asset management solutions.

New Orleans 2022

How to model a civil engineering like a digital twin without 3D scanning ?

How can we model a civil engineering structure like a digital twin without 3D scanning? If you want to know how to take up the challenge of replicating 62 stations platforms in 4 months, this case study talks about the Marseille subway stations project (In France). Throughout this presentation, we will be demonstrating how to use Civil3D, Subassembly Composer, Dynamo and Excel to reduce the time needed by 4, thereby reducing costs. Firstly, we will show the project and the stakes, then the workflow by way of adaptive profiles and finally we will present the possibilities of developing this idea further. Yes, this Workflow can be compatible with any project. Through this presentation, you can discover a new approach to using Civil 3D now and in the future. This case study can improve skills and offer new possibilities.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Coordinate transformation inside of Civil 3D - working with NTV2 files

For transfomation of coordinates inside of Civil 3D / Map 3D there are two possible ways. The differences between parameter- and affine transformation is shown. The affine transformation is using NTV2 files. In many cases there file for download from surveying offices, but you can also create your own. How that works and the way to implement the NTV2 files into your system are shown.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

The Remote-Survey Era: Preliminary Design in a Rapidly Changing Real World

Have you struggled with “What does my project area look like”? Having a complete understanding of it from the very beginning of the design and construction process, such as the conceptual and preliminary design phases, is a major factor for good decision making. Furthermore, it can be a powerful money and time saver, by allowing you to avoid design errors that could lead to significant rework costs, efforts and delays. Plex-Earth comes to give you the right answers by allowing you to instantly access real-world data from top imagery and terrain providers, like Airbus, Maxar, Nearmap, Hexagon, and Google Maps. All these from the comfort of your office (or home nowadays). In this presentation, we will show you how you can design efficiently without changing your workflow right inside AutoCAD and Civil 3D, and how to migrate your imports to InfraWorks or other design tools.