A coordinate- and command-based software used for specialized land surveying, terrain modeling, and basic alignment design.

The "Land Desktop Companion" is a specialized version of Civil 3D designed for users transitioning from the legacy Land Desktop platform.

The standard process involves signing into your Autodesk Account at register.autodesk.com

Note: Autodesk no longer issues new licenses for 2009, but they will help activate existing, unused licenses.

Modern Autodesk Civil 3D fully supports infrastructure design workflows and includes built-in tools to migrate older Land Desktop data.