Civil Engineering Softwares you should Know

Here the lists of Some Important Civil Engineering  Softwares :

1. AutoCad
2. Microsoft Office ( Excel, Power Point, Word )
3. Revit
4. STAAD Pro
5. SAP 2000
6. ETABS
7. Google Sketchups
8. 3d Home Architect
9. 3d Max
10. Bently Road Network

If you studying this course, try as much as possible to learn some of these softwares. Most students start with AutoCad, you can start with it for now. Microsoft Office ( Excel, Power Point, Word ) is also a very crucial software.

AutoCAD is a dying program…Autodesk has already stated that they will no longer be updating AutoCAD and will only focus on Revit. 
Structural analysis software is heading into the FEM realm where SCIA Engineer currently lies. RAM Structural is very outdated and programs like Staad | Staad and RISA are headed to major analysis changes. SCIA is not commonly used in the United States yet, but is used in Europe frequently. The only issue with SCIA is that it has quite a bit of bugs as a great deal of the software is newly created.

The softwares that you should learn basically depends upon the sub field of Civil Engineering you are working in. But there are some softwares that every civil engineer should know to work on like AUTOCAD and MS Excel( don’t underestimate it)
Apart from that the softwares which may be useful are

Structural Analysis and Design: STAAD Pro, ETABS, SAP 2000 etc.

Numerical Analysis and mathematical operations: MATLAB, Mathematica, PTC Mathcad etc.

Simulations and Finite Element Analysis : ANSYS, ABAQUS etc.

Project Management: Primavera, MS Project

Geoinformatics : Arc GIS, GeoMedia Professional

AUTOCAD Civil 3D(different from AUTOCAD) is another very useful software.