Civil 3D add-in
Britech-C3D
More than 400 commands for Civil 3D, on seven ribbon tabs. The work you repeat every day, from survey points to the sheet set, in fewer steps.
- Civil 3D 2022 to 2027
- Windows 64-bit
- Free for 30 days
What's inside
Seven tabs, one for each kind of work
Each tab of the ribbon groups its tools into panels. Choose a tab to see what it holds; the help site describes every command.
Britech Drafting
The everyday drawing work, done in fewer steps: polylines, blocks, layers and measurements.
Polylines
- Join polylines
- Curve solver
- Circles to polylines and back
- Self-intersection check
- Average path
Modify
- Rotate, align and flip
- Scale in XY or in Z only
- Flatten
Layers
- Layer Manager
- Layer Map, from survey layers to your template
- Demolition layers
Blocks
- Block along a path
- Block colour, linetype and name
View and utilities
- Entity Tracker
- Linetype Editor
- Purge the model
Britech Survey
From field data to a working base: points, point groups, inquiries and the formats surveys arrive in.
Survey
- Description keys
- Feature library (FXL) import
- Survey working folder
Points
- 3D points
- Stake features
- Lot corners
- Connect points
- Random daylight points
Point editing
- Grade points along a line or an object
- Elevations from feature lines, profiles or text
- Renumber and pack points
Point groups
- Point group browser
- Display manager
- Groups that update themselves
Inquiry
- Inverse
- Station and offset
- Design against as-built
- Lot fit
Import and export
- SHP, KML and point files
- User-defined properties
- Street-level imagery at a picked point
Britech Site
Surfaces, grading and parcels: build the ground, shape it, and check what it does.
Surfaces
- Quick surfaces
- Breaklines
- Hide boundaries
- TIN faces to DXF
Surface analysis
- Grid-to-ground distortion
- Copy analyses between surfaces
- Export and import contour, slope, elevation and direction analyses
Feature lines
- Mirror, move and fillet
- High and low points
- Feature line tracker
Grading
- Dynamic grading, updated as you work
- Quick daylight
- Building pads
- Curbs
- Stairs
Parcels
- Offset parcels
- Traverse and map check
- Area statistics
- Hash marks
Catchments
- Catchments from the surface
- Split and merge
- Catchment labels
Britech Design
Alignments, profiles, corridors and pipe networks, with the links that keep them in step.
Alignments
- From objects, feature lines or surfaces
- Join alignments
- Compare two alignments
Profiles
- Polyline to profile
- Wall and pipe profiles
- Offset and stretch
- Prune PVIs
- Vertical curve calculator
Corridors and sections
- Sections at PVIs
- Polylines from corridors
- Match subassembly properties
Pipe networks
- Networks from polylines or points
- Merge networks
- Swap parts
- Rename parts
Pipe editing
- Pipe Network Editor, as a spreadsheet
- Adjust a pipe run
- Raise and lower
- Rims to the surface
Dynamic links
- Points and profiles linked to surfaces and alignments
- Sewer lateral links
- Structure depth
Britech Annotate
Labels, text and styles to your standard, without editing each one by hand.
Labels
- Add labels by dragging
- Dynamic labels
- Text to labels
- Topo station labels
Text standards
- Audit text against the standard
- Sum and average numbers in text
- Standardise text
Styles
- Import, export and compare styles
- Rename and purge styles
- Style Table Editor
Notes and scale
- Notes palette
- Text and leaders
- Annotation scale tools
Britech Output
Sheets, legends and reports: from a finished design to a set ready to issue.
Sheet Creator
- View frames along an alignment or a site grid
- Create and update layouts
- Sheets from closed shapes
- Renumber a sheet set
Navigate
- Jump between plan, profile and section
- Viewport configuration
- Visibility Manager
Legend
- Drawing legend
- Legend Builder
Reports and export
- Pipe cover table
- Pipe and structure reports
- Quantity takeoff
- Table export
- Vertical curve table
Britech Parking
A parking lot laid out from its boundary, then edited, numbered and counted.
Set up
- A parking lot from its boundary
Lay out
- Rows and stalls
- Islands
- Accessible parking
- Access roads
Edit
- Layout iterations
- Stall numbering
Manage
- Count, report and verify the stalls
Every tab also ends with the Britech panel: About, Help, Check for updates and Sign in. Read the help for each command, with pictures.
A closer look
Built around how the work is done
Compare two alignments, station by station
Pick a main and a comparison alignment with their profiles, choose the geometry points, an interval and any extra stations, and read one table of stations, coordinates, elevations and offsets. Print it, or save it to a file.
- Station equations taken into account
- Profile geometry points included when you want them
Profiles and points that follow the design
Link a profile's PVIs to a surface, to another profile or to the PVI beside them, and link points to a surface, a profile, an alignment or a feature line. When the master changes, the elevations follow, and a point's description can carry its station and offset.
- Links update by themselves, or when you ask
- The Entity Tracker shows which objects are linked
Stake a design in one pass
Set the interval, the points at PIs and on curves, the offset and the point numbering once, keep them as a preset, and stake the features you pick with the descriptions your crew expects.
- Presets for each kind of staking
- Small curves and radius points handled your way
The licence
Sign in, work, and add seats when you need them
There is no key to type. You sign in from Civil 3D with your account, and your company's seats follow its people.
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Create an account
On the licence portal, with your work email and your company's name. Whoever creates it is the company's owner.
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Try it for 30 days
Install the add-in and sign in from Civil 3D. The trial is given once per account and once per computer.
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Buy seats
Your company's owner buys seats on the portal. They are ready as soon as the payment arrives.
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Your team signs in
The owner invites colleagues. Each computer that signs in takes a seat, and signing out gives it back.
Requirements
What it needs, and how it installs
Requirements
- Civil 3D
- 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027
- Windows
- 64-bit
- Account
- One on the licence portal, for the trial and for seats
- Internet
- To sign in. Offline, it keeps working for up to 44 days
Installation and updates
- Installer
- For you alone, with no administrator rights, or for everyone on the computer
- Loading
- Civil 3D loads it at start; the seven tabs appear on the ribbon
- Updates
- Checked once a day, installed when Civil 3D closes
- Download
- The current release, on the licence portal
Try Britech-C3D free for 30 days
Create an account, install the add-in and sign in from Civil 3D. Buy seats for your team when you are ready.