Top Must Have Civil Engineering Software

Being a civil engineer never expect a life away from computers. Friends, it is a technology time and no one can live without technology and software. I know Civil engineering software are useful for designers and planner who sit in office, but don’t run away from these and make yourself proficient in civil engineering software which may take you long way in professional life.

Almost every company prefers professionals who stand out of the queue and offer something to deal with technology. Below is a list of Civil engineering software which are helpful from career point of view and expertise in some of these will offer you better job position in coming future.

Top 10 Civil Engineering Software list

AutoCAD

Autodesk product AutoCAD is a civil engineering design and drawing software. It is one of the best engineering software which has many features includes design, precision, 2D and 3D modeling. AutoCAD is a powerful and must learn software for all civil engineering professional as you cannot imagine a engineering life without AutoCAD. I rated it first in the category of Civil engineering software list. 

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STAAD.Pro

STADD pro is a design software address all the need of the structural engineering. It is a must learn software for civil engineering professionals and I ranked it second in civil engineering software list.
STAADPro has everything to deal with structural engineering needs including many user interference features, visualization tools, powerful analysis and many more.

MS Project

MS Project is a project management software which is especially designed for project related activities like planning, budgeting, tracking and resource management. It is developed by Microsoft and useful in category of civil engineering software list.

Primavera

It is a project management software developed by Oracle Corporation. This software is a complete solution to determine and track project time lines and resource making. Primavera is also a must learn software for a civil engineer.

STAAD.foundation

STAAD.foundation is for foundation solution which easily can solve your complex base designing problems. It can be used to design spread, strip, pile, hexagonal and octagonal foundations. If you are a fulltime designer then this is must have software.

RAM Concept

It is an advanced design of reinforcement and post tensioned concrete slab software which includes design of all the slabs like one way and two way slabs.

Microstation

MicroStation is a drawing software which is useful to integrate the CAD program which makes files into 3D and 2D. You can create and interact with 3D CAD and 2D CAD models and designs.

Civil Designer

Civil Designer is a software of civil design which fulfills the requirement of civil engineering design. It comes with many models including water, survey, sewer and storm water modules.

STAAD.beava

STAAD.beava is a software program to design bridge while dealing with many factors like live load, dead load, wind load and moving loads.

ASCAD

ASCAD is a useful software for civil engineers and land surveyors to design and draw civil engineering drawing considering standard IS codes and rules.

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Never let your learning habit dies and always try to learn as many software possibly from all civil engineering software listed above. However few of software are useful for specific purpose only therefore learn as per your professional needs and requirements. Lastly, I will recommend every civil engineer to get familiar with at least AutoCAD, MS Project and Primavera.

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