Road - highway animation --simulation civil 3d - 3ds max

In the final stage of road design we use our project plans to make a visualization of the project, many tools can give us a beautiful animation to show our project to the world because as you know not all people can read and understand engineer plans.

 I use 3Ds max design with civil view mainly for my visualization, you can add trees and cars and make things move as you which, I am beginner in that beside I don’t have too much time to make visualization for every project I do.

My main task is to make sure that the geometric design of the road is best I can do, but I really enjoy making my project moving.

This is one of my projects.

Nemdili.T

Vehicles speed 100/60 km/h

Camera at 1.2m

Camera speed 80 km/h

PL 3000-3000-3000-2500

TP 250-250-2200

Animation

Another one

Road design software plan (AutoCAD Civil 3D, Dynamite VSP and 3 Ds Max)

If you are a transportation engineer, you need to use one of that software of road design, the most of them are integrated with AutoCAD, and for the rest, in general you need to convert the output plan (scheme) to an AutoCAD format to print it.

For me I already use lot of software including Civil 3D, Covadis, Piste and Polaris.  Every software has its prosperities, but for me I find Autodesk Civil 3D the most powerful and easy of use with a clear disadvantage that it need powerful computer to run it properly.

I am using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and I think the most powerful option in this software is that you can change your design(Alignments, curves ….) even if you are in the end stages of your road design without need to repeat any of the previous work.

Beside the interface of the software is very helpful and smart (integrated with AutoCAD) and you can find all the commands on front of you.

Download AutoCAD Civil 3D for trial.

If you want to make a professional visualization for your road, Autodesk make it very easy with Autodesk Dynamite VSP or Autodesk Civil Visualization Extension for Autodesk 3 DS Max, this software Extension make thing very easy for a civil engineer to use 3 Ds Max for his project visualization. All you need is to export your Civil 3D work with Autodesk Dynamite VSP Exporter for AutoCAD Civil 3D than import it with Civil Visualization Extension and make your road simulation.

 DownloadAutodesk 3 DS Max design for trial.

Download Civil Visualization Extension if you already subscribe to Autodesk products.

N. Tayeb