Sarah’s jaw dropped. The balance was almost perfect. The old design from Phase 2 had required trucking in 8,000 yards of fill, a budget-busting disaster. Her design, following the land’s natural ridge, was dirt-neutral.
At 2 PM, Henderson shuffled over. "How's the disaster?" he asked, not unkindly. Autodesk AutoCAD 2004 --land Desktop -civil Design
The others in the office treated Land Desktop like a necessary evil. They used it to import a point file, draw a few polylines, then export everything back to vanilla AutoCAD to "do the real work." Sarah knew better. She’d spent the summer learning the Terrain Model Explorer, the Contour tools, and the mysterious COGO input system that everyone else feared. Sarah’s jaw dropped
"You fixed the drainage."
He picked up the plan. He traced the new cul-de-sac with his finger. He looked at the proposed contours, then back at the old survey points. He grunted. Her design, following the land’s natural ridge, was