Game-Like Technology Delivers Dynamic Civil Design in 3D

摘要

The 3D environment should provide civil engineers with more than just a visualization tool-it should facilitate dynamic design and support complex analysis within a real-time, interactive environment. The Carlson Precision 3D - Culverts 2015, the first in a series of precision engineering applications from Carlson Software, changes the way engineers design stormwater-related systems. The tool automatically imports a digital terrain model pulled from CAD, Google or other source as an intelligently mapped multi-textured environment. Roads are asphaltic, embankment dams are represented as an earthen material, rock cuts look like a rock material, etc. and pavements, shoulders and fill/cut slopes are distinctively colored for clarity.