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G-007 · General

One firm. Eight weeks. 186 hours back.

A civil engineering firm ran SheetAgent for Civil 3D on live project work: five seats, real deadlines, real clients. After the trial it converted, from five seats to fifteen.

186 hrs

estimated billable time recovered, about $18,600 at a $100/hr rate

498

layouts built

273

layouts updated

1,941

layout audits

1,952

command runs · 71 sessions

“We produced 105 sheets in 4 days, counting several iterations and edits while learning how to use the tool.”
Project engineer at the firm, during the trial

The firm and the work

A civil engineering firm, unnamed at its own request, ran a five-seat trial on its live project work for eight weeks: real deadlines and real clients, not a test drawing. When the trial ended it bought fifteen seats.

Every figure on this page comes from the firm's own Manager Portal report, the same per-command reporting every customer gets.

What the trial measured

The sheet-production work SheetAgent for Civil 3D does, counted command by command: 498 layouts built, 273 updated after the design changed, and 1,941 layout audits, across 1,952 command runs in 71 sessions.

The hours are estimated from those runs: each command has a published minutes-per-run figure, multiplied by how often the firm's seats ran it. Layer management, support viewports, key maps and exhibit work are left out, so the real figure is higher.

What changed in the workflow

Sheets were built from tiles in model space rather than drawn one viewport at a time, and kept current with Update Sheets rather than rebuilt when the design moved. The 273 updates alongside 498 builds are that revision work: absorbed by the set instead of by the drafter. See how sheets stay current after design changes.

The project engineer's own account of the first days is the quote above: 105 sheets in four days, while still learning the tool.

The cross-check that matters. During the trial, the firm's engineers estimated their own recovered time, before seeing any telemetry. Their estimate and the telemetry-based calculation landed in the same range, independently.
Numbers, not testimonials. Every figure above comes straight from the customer's Manager Portal report, the same per-command reporting every customer gets. The firm asked not to be named; the data speaks for itself.

✦Estimated hours = command runs × published minutes-per-run, summed across value-bearing commands over an eight-week period. Excludes layer management, support viewports, key maps, and exhibit workflows. The real figure is higher. The separately quoted figure of about 95 billable hours recovered per seat per year is the conservative cross-customer floor; these case-study numbers reflect one firm’s measured eight-week period.

Workflow examples

Illustrations from Setline's own demo drawings. The firm's drawings are not shown.

A plan and profile sheet built by SheetAgent for Civil 3D: plan viewport, profile viewport, key map, match lines and title block placed on one layout.
A plan and profile sheet built by SheetAgent for Civil 3D: viewports, key map, view labels and sheet number placed.
The SheetAgent Health palette listing drift on built layouts, each finding with the button that settles it.
The Health palette checks built layouts against the model and the template, and flags drift without blocking anyone.

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