The firm I just started working at seems not to use there Civil 3d licenses. They bought them with a subscription several years ago thinking they would use them but haven’t. They mostly use regular 2d Autocad 2007. Being new I am getting a lot of the “fun stuff” to do and would like to do it in an efficient way. One task I was given was to count the area of various surfaces on a recently completed project to estimate maintenance costs. First I had to create polygons around the various surfaces like lawns, asphalt, planting beds etc and then calculate the total area of each category. They suggested I do this in Autocad. It ended up being a real pain when I had to make adjustments to the polygons then manually change the area in the table. Really I think this would have been most easily done in GIS but the landscape architects at my firm do not use GIS.
