Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 3D design software for entertainment, natural resources, manufacturing, engineering, construction, and civil infrastructure, announced the release of AutoCAD Utility Design 2015, is a model-based design solution for electrical distribution networks that combines design and documentation with standards-driven workflows and analysis. Utility designers and engineers can improve productivity, analyse and optimise network designs for performance and reliability, and deliver more consistent and co-ordinated construction documentation, all in a familiar AutoCAD software environment. Autodesk AutoCAD Utility Design 2015 model-based design software helps deliver Building Information Modeling (BIM) for overhead and underground electric distribution that combines design and documentation with rules-driven, standards, workflows and analysis. Designers and engineers can design, analyze, and deliver more productive and consistent electric distribution designs and documentation—all in a familiar AutoCAD environment. Ideally suited for designers and engineers at utility companies and engineering and construction (E/C) firms, AutoCAD Utility Design helps to improve design productivity and consistency with easy-to-use templates and customizable standards and workflows that help simplify the network layout process; analyze network layout to optimize asset selection and sizing; and deliver more consistent and coordinated construction documentation and materials and cost estimates—all in a familiar AutoCAD environment.