v2011 [Oct 11, 2011]
Civil Designer 2011 runs on a new graphics platform that includes numerous improvements in addition to allowing you to work in either a 3D or 2D environment. It is much more powerful than the widely respected Civil Designer 6.5 offering you even greater productivity. So look forward to the following benefits:
- Full DWG, DXF and DGN compatibility
-Blocks (symbols)
-Xrefs (embedded drawings)
-Switch between multiple views of your drawing or project
-Edit, cut and paste between views and drawings
-Named viewports to quickly zoom into areas of interest
- Auto-updating layouts keep design and drawings in sync
-3D entities with rendering and light shading
- Control Centre for easy access to blocks, hatch, text, dimension and line styles, DTM surfaces, display centre .
The Support
CONTINUAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
With over 21 years of ongoing development, based on direct feedback from top engineering firms and municipalities, Civil Designer is the premier design solution that helps exceptional engineers realize their visions as they tackle today's service delivery and infrastructure challenges.
The Knowledge Base development team is continually improving Civil Designer to meet our users’ requirements as well as keeping up to date with the latest industry developments. There have been many new functions and enhancements specifically written from our support logs and user feedback that forms an integral part of our service to you. Our Subscription contract ensures that you receive the latest updates as soon as they are released.
TALK TO US - WE WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE
There are very few (if any) software developers that you can call and ask to add a new function and they will look into it! When you are under pressure to perform, Knowledge Base will deliver and go out of its way to customise a solution for you in the shortest time possible.
Our Support Service is also widely used for the resolution of simple problems such as how to approach a design, what the best methodology is in a certain situation, how Civil Designer applies design criteria, what you should look out for when beginning a new design task etc.
UNBEATABLE SUPPORT IN THE INDUSTRY
Our support is regarded as the best in the industry. Our attitude to support is quite simple. We know that time is money, and if you have a problem then we have a problem. We will do everything we can to help you resolve the matter as soon as possible. Your Civil Designer Subscription allows you access to our Customer Support Centre where we offer telephone, email, remote desktop sharing and onsite support services for Civil Designer.
Furthermore, our programmers are not situated in some office shut off to what is happening in the real world, but interact with our clients, sales, training and support staff on a daily basis. We even get them to do a day of support here and there to have them liaise directly with you and to give them a better idea of your needs.
WATER: Water is a program for the full analysis and extended time simulation of fluid handling networks. It includes items such as reservoirs, pump chambers with multiple pumps, valves and all pipe types which are fully editable and can link to external consumption data tables. more...
- Demand patterns for large cities, villages & rural communities
- Link external data tables such as consumption and tariff details
- Customizable pipe database with definable pipe types & sizes
- Pump stations with up to 8 pumps in parallel with various controls
-Display results graphically, in tables or on time-based curves
- View velocities, flows, pressures, losses & hydraulic grade lines
- Also view reservoir levels and pump duty points
-Hydraulic and pressure contour plotting
-SABS 1200 quantities with bedding material/selected backfill
* Culvert clash analysis with crossing services
* Generates layout plan with pipe schedule and long sections
* And so much more…
Stormwater STORM: Stormwater is a network analysis and design program for runoff events which calculates catchment runoff, culvert flows, overflows, and routing and detention storage through user-defined ponds. It also calculates culvert sizes, invert levels and slopes and supports the Illudus, Rational and SWMM runoff models. more...
* Supports Illudas, Rational and EPA SWMM runoff models
* Simulate dual runoffs with partial flow capture and overflows
* Provision for detention storage at inlets
* Standard and user defined culverts
* Graphically define catchment areas with attributes from DTM
* Attenuate runoff by means of detailed reservoir routing
* Hydraulic routing by Continuity Equation or Time Shift method
* Analyzes flow, overflow, capacity, velocity and flow depth
* Calculates optimal culvert size, slope, inlet and outlet levels
* SABS 1200 quantities with bedding material/selected backfill
- Culvert clash analysis with crossing services
-Generates layout plan with pipe schedule and long sections
- And so much more…
SEWER: Sewer is a network analysis and design program with erf connections and interactive drawing functionality for foul water networks. This program calculates inflows with attenuation and dynamic time simulation as well as determining flows, overflows, sizes, invert levels and slopes. more...
Unit flow classes, Harmon formula or hydrograph inflows
Calculates attenuation according to population
Dynamic time simulation with multiple inflow hydrographs
Infiltration by percentage flow or by length of culvert
Pump stations with up to 4 pumps with various controls
Standard and user defined culverts
Culvert hydraulics using proportional flow depth
Analyzes flow, overflow, capacity, velocity and flow depth
Calculates optimal culvert size, slope, inlet and outlet levels
Full erf connection drainage analysis using minimum erf level
SABS 1200 quantities with bedding material/selected backfill
Culvert clash analysis with crossing services
Generates layout plan with pipe schedule and long sections
TURN: Turn provides dynamic and interactive simulation for low speed turning manoeuvres along a specified tracking path which includes cars, trucks, articulated vehicles, trailers, commercial aircraft and forklifts. Easy track path definition and creation with smallest turning circle calculation. more...
Multiple vehicle libraries including TRH17 criteria
User Configurable Vehicles
Easy track path definition and creation
Define way points along the track path
Smallest turning circle calculation
Cargo Point tracking function
Projecting load clearance analyzed
Forward and Reverse movements
Plot output graphs and data tables
Track path to CAD layer with test vehicle profile
Works in conjunction with existing CAD entities
With CIVIL DESIGNER all your design tasks will be faster and easier, and you will be able to do so much more than before.
Full compatibility with DWG, DXF and DGN
Civil Designer runs on our new titanium strength 3D CAD platform that is fully compatible with DWG, DXF, DGN and other drawing formats. Line styles, hatching, fonts, inserts, Xrefs, paper space, model space, live layouts and viewports will all be handled without problems. In addition we also support Caddie CEX, Arcview SHP and Ultimate Cad UCX files.
More powerful DTM
The digital terrain modelling component has been optimized to import 1,3million points in under a minute and can handle more than 16 million points. No other design system can handle large data sets with such ease and speed.
Huge data and image handling ability
Civil Designer is renowned for supporting multiple large bitmaps such as aerial survey photographs or ortho-photos as backdrops to your design. High-level presentations are handled professionally, as bitmaps, 3D views and 3D drive-through's give you the edge on your competition.
Sheet files save you hours of work
Our powerful sheet files allow you to define exactly what the final production drawings should look like saving you hours of postproduction CAD editing. Sheet files can include other drawings, complete title blocks with company logos, data lists and annotations. The improved Sheetfile Editor makes it easy to create and edit these sophisticated drawing templates.
Production drawings update on the fly
Our system will also automatically generate all your final plans as dynamically updating layouts which will reflect all drafting and design changes instantly so that your design and production drawings are always in sync.
Automated Key Plan generation
If you have 100km of highway or a town layout that requires multiple sheets, Civil Designer will generate a key plan to show you where a specific drawing fits in to the whole design with a specified overlap between drawings.
Greater productivity
Every aspect of Civil Designer is designed to get the job done easier and faster, and to make you more productive.
The heavyweight design functionality combined with the ability to track the spatial relationship between design elements and identify issues in your design such as pipe day lighting and clashes with crossing services allows you to focus on the design itself.
But above all, we have ensured that the system remains easy to use and extremely robust, giving you absolute control over every aspect of your design, the way it should be!
