Stafford County, Virginia recently posted a progress rendering of a project I'm working on. The model was built with a land surveyed surface, Civil 3D corridors, pipe networks and so on. I then brought everything together in Autodesk Infraworks then Autodesk 3D Studio Max for a little cleanup. I then imported the model into Epic Twinmotion. The model is still in progress so I'll post the final renderings once it is complete.
I've had several people ask, is there a free 3D CAD software. I suggest them to try Autodesk TinkerCAD. TinkeCAD is a free online based CAD application. It runs in your browser. The best browsers are Google Chrome, Safari 13 (or newer) and Microsoft Edge. The operating systems are Windows 10, Apple MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 or later and Google Chrome OS on Chromebooks. I use Windows 11 and it runs without any issues. The 3D models can be exported in a number of different file formats such as STL, OBJ, GLTF, USDZ (iPad app only), and SVG. These files can be imported into various 3D software for animations and 3D printing.
Try it out and Tinker.
AutoCAD 2026 has hit the shelves. Time to play with the new features.
https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/overview
Autodesk University 2025 Call for Proposals is open.
https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/conference/call-for-proposals
Here is an intersection I'm working on. It's build with AutoCAD/Civil 3D. The flythrough is created with Epic Twinmotion. I hope to have buildings added soon.
