Sarah’s jaw dropped. The balance was almost perfect. The old design from Phase 2 had required trucking in 8,000 yards of fill, a budget-busting disaster. Her design, following the land’s natural ridge, was dirt-neutral.
"I think so."
He handed the plan back. "Good work, Klein. Send it to the developer. And save that Land Desktop file somewhere safe. That's not just a drawing. That's the answer to a lawsuit." Autodesk AutoCAD 2004 --land Desktop -civil Design
She quickly drafted the stormwater plan. Using the Parcel tools, she laid out lots that followed the contours, not fought them. Each house pad would require minimal grading. Each drainage swale flowed naturally to a new, dry pond she’d located in that hidden swale. Sarah’s jaw dropped
Sarah’s heart sank. Phase 2 had been a disaster—retaining walls built where there should have been swales, storm drains that flowed uphill (according to the neighbors’ flooded basements). The developer was blaming the engineering firm. Henderson was blaming the previous junior engineer, who had quit. Now, it was her mess. Her design, following the land’s natural ridge, was
By Tuesday midnight, she had a clean, closed parcel boundary. By Wednesday morning, she’d imported the new GPS survey points from the field crew. This was where the magic—and the terror—of Land Desktop began.
He walked away. Sarah saved her file: Maple_Creek_Phase3.dwg . She leaned back, looked at the clean, precise lines on her screen—the contours, the alignments, the parcel boundaries.