Known limitations and roadmap

A transparent summary of what GeoDin® Ground does well today, what it deliberately does not do, and what is planned. Keep this page bookmarked — it is refreshed as the plug-in evolves.

Known limitations today

Import is one-way

Edits made in Civil 3D — moving, deleting, or reshaping boreholes, surfaces, or solids — do not propagate back to the GeoDin® database. This is deliberate: Civil 3D drawings are easy to change by accident, and the GeoDin® database is protected from those changes. See GeoDin® and GeoDin® Ground: where each fits for the rationale.

Layer matching has no semantic hints

When Draw Surfaces and Volumes interpolates between boreholes, it matches layers by soil type alone. In geologically simple sites this works very well. In complex stratigraphies — where, for example, two distinct clay layers of different ages should not be bonded — the algorithm may connect them anyway.

Workaround today: use virtual logs to constrain the interpolation, or clean up the result with Civil 3D's own solid-editing tools.

Report-quality geological hatching lives in GeoDin®

Inside Civil 3D, soil units are communicated through Civil 3D layer colours only. Wrapping a cylinder with a standards-compliant hatch pattern (for example, a full USCS pattern) is not available out-of-the-box.

Workaround today: for a legal-quality, standards-compliant cross-section, produce it in GeoDin® itself, which supports 11 international hatching standards.

Some data in the GeoDin® database is not yet visualised

GeoDin® Ground currently does not render samples, classification test results, CPT detail, SPT values, or groundwater readings inside Civil 3D. The full record remains available in GeoDin® and via attached documents. See What comes across from the GeoDin® database for the full list.

No dedicated cross-section command inside the plug-in

To cut a cross-section through the ground model today, use Civil 3D's native alignment and section tools — intersect an alignment plane with the generated surfaces.

Roadmap

The GeoDin® and Autodesk teams are collaborating on the following areas. This is a directional list; release timing and scope may change.

Richer layer-matching input

Let users tag layers with additional information — for example, geological age, genesis, or depositional environment — so the plug-in can match corresponding layers more reliably instead of bonding every layer with the same soil type. This is the primary improvement queued for complex stratigraphies.

Native cross-section command

A dedicated cross-section command inside GeoDin® Ground's ribbon — faster than the Civil 3D alignment + section workflow and tuned for geotechnical use.

Volumetric quantity calculations

Expanded calculations that surface volumetric information directly from the ground model, to support design bills of quantities and carbon/cost modelling.

Better merges of geophysics data

Improved ability to combine geophysical datasets with borehole-derived ground models, to help plan site investigations and reduce drilling while maintaining design confidence.

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For current release notes, see Release Notes. If there is a limitation that blocks your work, let us know — the team uses customer input directly to prioritise the roadmap.