Archicad for Civil Engineer

[Anonymous]

Hello there! I am new here. My name is Dino and I am from Croatia, Zagreb.

I finished school for Civil Engineering and I was working most time in Autocad. Once I went for "Extra learning" classes with my dad's colegue, he taught me how to work ( basics ) in Archicad, and i like it!
My plan is to finish Civil Engineer University, but I do not know do I need to know to work in Archicad because it's main is purpose for architects? Can I make bridges, roads and rail roads in archicad? What do you think is it better to expand my knowledge in Archicad ( for buildings, roads, rail roads and Bridges ) or to dismiss all that and jump to autodesk products for that purposes. Please I need some info and advices.

[Anonymous]

Rlcosta wrote:

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:

Link wrote:
Yeah that's great mate - knock yourself out.

Cheers,
Link.

Yeh,I go to great detail/presentation in explaining to clients what opening a window does...especially when coupling contaminant tracing

Since you clearly don't like Archicad, may I ask what you are doing on this forum?

Well, I would like it much better if they started developing the program the way it should be developed... HTH

[Anonymous]

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:

Rlcosta wrote:

DesignEngineerBIM wrote:
Yeh,I go to great detail/presentation in explaining to clients what opening a window does...especially when coupling contaminant tracing

Since you clearly don't like Archicad, may I ask what you are doing on this forum?

Well, I would like it much better if they started developing the program the way it should be developed... HTH

Ok I'll bite....I'm guessing your not an architect....I don't recall a project that the design was immediately influenced by finite state maths...feel free to add an example.

[Anonymous]

Rlcosta wrote:

Ok I'll bite....I'm guessing your not an architect....I don't recall a project that the design was immediately influenced by finite state maths...feel free to add an example.

Yep, Not an Architect...I am A Design Engineer (Civil,Construction, Geotech and Environmental)
The bar has been lifted and all in good time...

[Anonymous]

Please do not feed Trolls.

[Barry Kelly]

OK I think we will leave this conversation there.

If anyone has anything relevant to add about using Archicad for Civil Engineering then please continue to post.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

I called 3D ART and guy said to me that for roads, railroads "best" program is All plan and for buildings archicad. Well I have in plan to learn archicad first then All plan or maybe someone has better advice which product ( maybe from Autodesk ) to learn in which i can make roads, railroads and bridges?

[Anonymous]

For ROADS and RAILROADS I suggest you to use "Plateia 2015" and "Ferrovia 2015" (made by CGS plus d.o.o. Slovenia) which runs on AutoCAD and BricsCAD Pro.

http://www.cgsplus.com/Software.aspx

[Erwin Edel]

I have a purely architectural engineering background, but my gut feeling would be that ArchiCADs toolset isn't what you would look for in civil engineering tasks.

I'm sure you would be able to get results, but it would not be a very productive efficient route.

As suggested by others: have a look at online job descriptions or find a community dedicated to civil engineering. The more local, the better.

I think Bentley is pretty popular along side AutoDESK in the civil engineering community.

[Anonymous]

CroFake wrote:
I called 3D ART and guy said to me that for roads, railroads "best" program is All plan and for buildings archicad. Well I have in plan to learn archicad first then All plan or maybe someone has better advice which product ( maybe from Autodesk ) to learn in which i can make roads, railroads and bridges?

Our university here has just changed from Revit and done a deal with Bentley because of Stand7 FEM (deal broker). The next big move hopefully will be to Comsol due to its app developing capabilities, you are better off giving in and linking with them,as no one uses NAG products down under.

http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/8718/Application-Builder-...

LOL, love the reference to the Solar BBQ Design (Thats gold)
HTH

[Anonymous]

That's typical... LOL, when challenged run off and have a sook and then delete posts.
If thats your response then your clients are going to be very disappointed with YOU.