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With the release of AutoCAD Land Development Desktop, Autodesk introduces a powerful application that provides civil engineers, land planners, and surveyors with a set of tools to satisfy common needs in a single out-of-the-box package. Land Development Desktop incorporates many useful tools from its Softdesk 8 predecessor and adds a host of new civil and survey tools. It also includes a full set of GIS-based tools.
Land Development Desktop is actually three products in one: AutoCAD Release 14, AutoCAD Map, and AutoCAD Land Development Desktop. It comes with User's Guides-the actual manuals-for all three programs. The Land Development Desktop package includes one CD-ROM that installs AutoCAD Map, which is the mapping version of AutoCAD Release 14. An additional CD-ROM contains civil/survey tools that install on top of AutoCAD Map. An AutoCAD 2000-based version of Land Development Desktop won't appear until late summer.
AutoCAD Land Development Desktop is actually an upgraded version of Softdesk 8. Land Development Desktop includes many S8 tools and also introduces new features. Those familiar with S8 know that it consists of numerous modules that you purchase individually. With Land Development Desktop, most of the individual modules and their most common...