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Chapter 1 Introduction
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What Is AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop?
AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Release 2 is part of the Land
Development Solutions II suite of applications for professionals in the
land planning and development industries. The Land Development
Solutions II suite includes:
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AutoCAD
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Land Development Desktop Release 2: This is the
AutoCAD for Land Development professionals. It provides a base
level of functionality that meets the needs of everyone in the land
development process, including land planners, surveyors, civil
engineers, drafters, and anyone who creates supporting documents.
AutoCAD Land Development Desktop provides an Application
Programming Interface (API), so that other add-on products can be
designed to work with AutoCAD Land Development Desktop.
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Autodesk
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Survey Release 2: An add-on to AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop that provides a streamlined ability to
communicate survey data to and from the field.
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Autodesk
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Civil Design Release 2: An add-on to AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop that provides transportation and site
engineering tools, and hydrology and hydraulics design and
analysis.
This guide introduces you to AutoCAD Land Development Desktop.
For more information about Autodesk Survey and Autodesk Civil
Design, see the Autodesk Survey User’s Guide and the Autodesk Civil
Design User’s Guide.