List Of Essential Civil Engineering Softwares

Civil engineers and civil engineering students are often in need of using softwares. Their are several software that can be useful to a civil engineer. But in most cases the famous softwares are used in to solve real life civil engineering problem solution. There are many softwares and of course there are some famous sofwares. For analysis, for designing and for management of the project theses softwares play a vital role in most of the cases. Here are the list of most used civil engineering softwares and they are sorted according to their application areas:

Management Softwares :

• MS Project
• Primavera
• Project Kick Start
• Smarta

Analysis/Design Based Softwares :

• Staad Pro
• GTS
• STRAP
• Sap 2000
• Struds
• ETABS
• NISA
• GT Strudl
• Xsteel
• MicroStation
• Ansys

Modelling Softwares :

• ArchiCAD
• AutoCAD Rivet
• D Studio MAx
• PDS
• PDMS
• SP 3D
• Tekla Structures
• Photoshop

Water Tanks :

• ESR GSR

Quantity & Estimation Softwares :

• QE PRO

Geotechnical Softwares :

• Plaxis
• Geo

GPS/GIS Softwares :

• Arc View
• GeoMatics

Sewer Modelling Softwares :

• Kanal ++

Water Distribution Network :

• Aqua++

Highways :

• MXRoads
• HDM
• AutoPlotter
• Heads

Green Buildings :

• Ecotect
• Visual Doe
• Energy +
• IES
• Dialux

 

Drafting Softwares :

• Vector Works
• Maya
• Rhino

Foundation Design Softwares :

• SAFE
• STAAD Foundation

PSC Girder Design Softwares :

• MIDAS
• ADAPT-ABI

Offshore Platform Design Softwares :

• SACS