Should I learn Revit, Autocad or Civil 3D if I want to go in the design field after graduating civil engineering?

Answer 1

Learn Civil 3d as that's the industry standard. Civil is always the exception to the rule. From the Architecture side, we get the civil 3d autocad file with points and bring it into Revit to make the topo, etc. We can always revert back to AutoCAD to get the job done if need be.

Answer 2

Certainly, the staples would be as Seth mentioned, Revit for Structural, AutoCAD Civil 3D for Civil design. 2D AutoCAD is truly on the way out, and Revit allows export to .dwg files, so because Revit and AutoCAD are significantly different in operation, I would stick with one. My choice being Revit. In any event, on top of that, learn all of the Autodesk Building Suite, which includes Navisworks, a vital role in BIM clash detection.

Answer 3

Civil 3D is the way the go, for sure. One point to note about Revit (I cannot speak for Civil 3D), is that it has all of the 2D capabilities of AutoCAD. Case in point: I trained an office in how to use Revit for their projects. At one point in the week, the owner came into the class, and mentioned to one of the designers "Well, at some point, you can jump back to AutoCAD to finish the job". I explained to them that Revit isn't just for modeling pretty things; those "pretty things" can have views created of them, dimensions placed on them, and views placed on sheets, and the job is finished. Because I do not know AutoCAD Civil 3D, I am not sure (but would assume) that it is the same, in that respect.

Answer 4

What kind of Design? Structural design?

Revit is being more and more used for structural design, but AutoCAD 2D has been the staple for many years. Civil 3D would be used more for land development.

Hope this helps,

Seth L.