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Advanced Road Design V14 - New Features

Advanced Road Design V14 extends on the fully dynamic design drafting environment of ARD V13, with consolidation of features and new functionality.

In summary, we've made it easier to:

create strings and adopt existing surface levels
add sections where you need on a string
match slopes on your cross sections
control auto modelling and plan linework.

As well as making significant speed improvements on large data sets, we've addressed numerous customer reported issues.

"I missed out on the features of ARD V13" - If you missed out on our V13 release, please see below for the summary of features we introduced in ARD V13.

New Licensing System

We found some problems with the performance of the Reprise License Manager to various customers, particularly in a network environment. Depending on network configuration and controls, some customers experienced sporadic stoppages in the Reprise license manager.

We have moved from Reprise to Infralution - the Infralution licensing system allows for much greater control and management by Civil Survey Solutions, so we can more quickly and more directly address any issues that may arise. It's now far simpler to obtain a standalone license, and network license administration is more streamlined.

You will have a new Serial Number for this version, across all CAD platforms. If you haven't received yours, please contact the Subscription Co-ordinator.

Adding Extra Section Sampling On-The-Fly

It's always been a bit annoying when you're in the middle of modelling or applying an edit in the Design Data form, and you find that you want extra cross section sampling applied to the string. Because changes are applied at sampled cross sections, you need to add them.

Historically, you had to resample the road.

Well, we've added to the ribbon, menu and toolbar the ability to open a form and quickly add cross section sampling.

Recognising that you often want to do this in conjunction with design edits or modelling, we've also added this functionality to the Vertical Grading Editor, Design Data Form and Model Builder. Quickly add extra sampling, without shutting down what you're in the middle of.

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Get Control of Auto Model and the Linework in the Drawing

Auto Model creates a trimmed surface of all your roads, kerb returns, cul-de-sacs, knuckles and roundabouts. But sometimes, you want to quickly omit certain road strings, or add extra strings such as wandering footpaths, retaining walls and car park strings.

Now you can - accessible from the Toggle Surface Display form is a new tab that allows you to include and exclude strings from the Auto Model surface.

ARD automatically draws all linework for all strings (and their cross sections) - with this new functionality added you can also tell ARD not to display linework for any strings you create.

Get the output you want - surface and linework - with minimum effort.

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Quick Creation of Draped Strings

We've introduced a Drape Strings command for you to quickly convert your alignments into Strings, complete with an assigned template (if desired) and draped onto a surface. We support updating of all draped profiles from the Updated Draped Strings command.

Speed up creating design components that need to be draped on a surface.

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New Variation - Match Slopes

Many designers just want to read the elevations/offsets of two codes on their design, and use this to set the slope to a design code.

Well, this is the variation for you! When you want to extend the design crossfall from a sawcut location out to your design left/right edge, this tool will work perfectly. No more using Road Matching Model, or creating a string and editing elevations.

You can even set a grade break to apply to the calculated slope.

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Various Fixes and Improvements

**New command - Create String from 3D Polyline (BricsCAD and AutoCAD versions only) - turns a 3D polyline into an alignment and string, adopting the 3D polyline elevations
**New command - Set All Sump Levels. If you want to change all pit sumps to match the outgoing pipe invert, or you want to assign a sump to each pit, this command will apply a global change to all pit sumps. When you've got hundreds of pits, this is a real time saver.
**New command - Find Pit. Type in a pit name/label and zoom to it in the drawing
**New command - House Connection Report - Added a new function to output House Connection details to a comma delimited file - ready for opening directly in Excel
**New command - Open Data Folder - opens a form to quickly navigate to outputs and the data, such as plot drawing files, reports, the settings folder, etc
**New command - Edit Settings File - opens a form to allow quick opening of selected settings files for edit
**New command - Point file for COGO Point Import - built with Civil 3D in mind, this command will allow you to quickly pick codes and strings to setout and creates a file ready for import into Civil 3D. File is comma delimited and lists point number, easting, northing, elevation and description. Type arduv7c3dpoints at the command line to run this one
Fixed a plot issue displaying added Codes - was not able to edit the text size
Improved the pipes VGE to include colour highlight on the pipe slope when it goes outside the pipe min/max slope range
Updated multiple pipe slope button and located next to existing pipe slope button.
Updated corridor output for Civil 3D 2013 - correctly outputs subgrade shapes
Fixed a bug in the Delete Line tool for ARD Surfaces - if you snapped onto the corner of a triangle it would not resolve the deletion
Added additional setting controls in the Miscellaneous tab

Save setting: auto save a backup of your ARD data every x hours, and make a backup when you open a project
Turn on ARD alignment tracker
More control over widths of section linework displayed for strings.
Speed options - select to save surface data to file to speed up calculations, as required

MX Genio input/output has been enhanced and improved
Fixed a long section plot error resulting from showing cut/fill on a string that isn't designed for the full length of the alignment
Fixed an error generated when cul-de-sacs, kerb returns or knuckles were created and then the connecting codes of the road/s are removed
Various speed improvements made to road design
Fixed a speed issue showing a multitude of pipes on the road VGE window

Advanced Road Design V13 - New Features

Dynamic Plan Drafting

Linework representing roads/strings from Total Model and other design models will now be produced automatically. The linework will also automatically update when changes are made to the design. The colour and linetype of the linework can be customised by the user and users can toggle the linework on/off in the new Toggle Surface Display command.

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Dynamic Surface Modelling

The new ARD Quick Surface is used to created dynamic design surface models that will automatically update when changes are made to the design.

The display of these surfaces can be controlled in the new Toggle Surface Display command and surface styles can be assigned using the new Create/Edit Surface command. The Create/Edit Surface command can be used to assign an analysis such as a slopes analysis to the surface.

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Model Builder

Superseding the Model Manager and Build Models commands, Model Builder is a new tool that allows users to graphically stitch together a design model. The Model Builder command is an improved version of the Build Models command and the model being created/edited is displayed in model space, rather than in a dialog box. By default, an ARD Quick Surface is produced. This surface will automatically update when design changes are made.

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Driveway Creation Tools

The new Driveway Creation Tools allow users to design roads and other design features, and simultaneously check driveways for vertical clearance. Driveways can be easily defined using AutoCAD Polylines and vertical design checks are applied automatically when vertical changes to a road are made. Users have the ability create their own layback shape and also vehicle clearance templates.

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Roundabout Creation Tools Improvement

The roundabout creation process has been simplified and streamlined as follows:

circular alignments are now supported - no need to have a small gap at the end (Civil 3D 2013 only)
in the Create Roundabouts form, there is a new button to auto populate the Roads and Kerb Returns that make up the intersection - one click button to establish the intersection details
the surface build process in the background has been streamlined and the 'Roundabout' surface will automatically update as design changes are made to the Road and/or Kerb Return Strings - users will only need to edit the central island to enforce an update of the roundabout intersection
In the Vertical Grading Editor, the software will detect alignments that are closed (within a gap tolerance) and the start and end IP elevations will be automatically set to match on another (so, moving the first IP up/down will automatically reset the last IP levels to match)

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Multi Setout Routine

Superseding the existing Setout command, the new Multi Setout command allows users to setout multiple roads or strings using a setout style. A setout style can be created by the user and is setup to define what features of the road/string are to be setout, how the point data is displayed, and how the information is to be reported.