River modeling extension available for AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012

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SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Autodesk Project River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012, a technology preview of new infrastructure planning and design functionality from the AEC Infrastructure Modeling Product Line Group, is available for download and trial on Autodesk Labs. 

Project River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 (available in both 32-bit and 64-bit) is a sophisticated river modeling software package that supports HEC-RAS within the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 environment. According to Autodesk, this technology preview of River Analysis makes it easier for infrastructure planners, engineers, and designers to compute water surface profiles for modeling rivers, bridges, culverts, spillways, levees, floodplain and floodway delineations, stream diversions, channel improvements, and split flows.

The River Analysis extension for Civil 3D 2012 and Map 3D 2012 allows users to do the following:

• Automate HEC-RAS cross section cutting, water surface analysis, flood plain mapping, and all related modeling tasks.
• Utilize numerous automation mapping tools for extracting cross sections from various digital terrain sources including contours, TINs, DTMs, DEMs, LiDAR data, survey files, surveyed cross sections, etc.
• Perform sophisticated bridge and culvert analysis as well as automating the process of designing and analyzing roadway crossings.
• Automate mapping of bank station locations, channel and overland flow lengths, levee locations, ineffective flow areas, and Manning’s roughness data from topographic map data.
• Perform automated bridge scour computations for FHWA and state DOT roadway studies.
• Automatically generate floodplain and floodway maps, ready for FEMA and other agency submittals.