Autodesk AutoCAD Land Desktop 2004 (often referred to as Land Desktop 2004) is a civil and land-development design solution built on AutoCAD 2004 that combined surveying, terrain modeling, grading, corridor design, and parcel and site-layout tools tailored for small-to-mid‑sized civil engineering and land‑planning projects. Below is a concise, practical piece covering its key features, workflows, strengths, limitations, and typical use cases.
| Feature Category | Capabilities | |----------------|--------------| | | COGO point management, traverse analysis, linework prep from field data | | DTM & Surfaces | Contour generation, volume calculations (cut/fill), 3D surface modeling | | Alignments | Horizontal and vertical road/project alignments with superelevation | | Parcels & COGO | Parcel labeling, automated lot layout, right-of-way definition | | Hydrology | Basic pipe networks (storm/sewer) with inverts and profiles | | Core CAD | Full AutoCAD 2002/2004 base (layers, blocks, Xrefs, etc.) | autodesk autocad 2004 land desktop civil design hot