V16.1

Readme for Civil Site Design for Civil 3D, AutoCAD

and BricsCAD

V16.1

This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Civil Site Design versions as described above. Civil Site Design for Civil 3D is available for:

Multiple AutoCAD Civil 3D based releases: o AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 (64bit only)

Civil Site Design for AutoCAD is available for:

Multiple AutoCAD based releases: o AutoCAD 2012 to AutoCAD 2016 (64bit only) o All AutoCAD derivatives (eg: AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D) release

versions 2012 to 2016 (64bit only)

BricsCAD V16 (64bit install)

Name Change

This product was previously known as Advanced Road Design.

Civil Site Design adopts all technical functionality of Advanced Road Design. This is a name change only. From version 16.1 onwards, the name of the product is changed to Civil Site Design. .

Installation Instructions

You do not need to uninstall any previous versions of Civil Site Design.

This installation will install over the top of any previous Advanced Road Design installation. There are additional questions upon installation regarding country and platform. This is a multi-year platform installer. Additional user inputs during installation are as follows:

Be sure to select the right Country – if incorrect selection is made then uninstallation is recommended before reinstall. Please note this will remove all user settings for the software.

Licensing Instructions

This installation uses the Advanced Road Design V16 License.

In order to minimise disruption with the change in name, the licensing system still looks for the Advanced Road Design V16 license key (standalone and network). If you already have the network licensing established or already have Advanced Road Design V16 licensed, the software will continue to use that licensing and no licensing update is required.

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New Features

Model Viewer

Model Viewer is available from multiple Ribbon/Menu/Toolbar tabs in the software. Model Viewer enables real-time fully rendered 3D viewing and analysis of your designs. Core functionality includes:

- Right click to open the VGE, Cross section Window, Design Data form, extract volumes and generate outputs

- Assignment of materials based on design codes

- Exaggeration control - Aerial photo drape directly from an

image inserted into the drawing (.jpg, .bmp and .png supported)

- Sight distance analysis along a road and at intersections

- Drive through along a string, with user control over speed, eye and target position and visibility of the target. Click button video output

- Inclusion of objects (.obj files) - Inclusion of labels for Roads, Design

Data form entries and user defined - Output screenshots and generate fly overs based on selected views.

Please refer to the Appendix at the back of this document for detailed information on Model Viewer.

Welcome Screen

The Welcome Screen will display when you first run a Civil Site Design command for the day. The Welcome Screen serves a number of purposes, which include: - Automated software version checking. Users will be notified if their software is out of date and will have the ability to download and install the latest - A live news/events page will keep users notified of upcoming training events, webcasts, and much more - Access to the Civil Site Design blog, YouTube, and technical support pages - Access to quick start tutorials, the help system, and readme notes Users have the ability to set the display frequency of the Welcome Screen or turn it off completely. Version checking can be done independently of the Welcome Screen.

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Roads

Cross Section Plotting

There is a new cross section plotting routine, accompanied by functionality known as object „tagging‟.

You can stay old school - Access to the current plot engine is still available. Your „old‟ plots should open in the new plot engine (check carefully though because some functionality differs).

We‟ve made the following improvements:

Streamlined Interface

- Freely navigate the drawing with the plotting form open

- It‟s now far easier to see what you‟ve added with the new Treeview list

- Settings are grouped

- Bands are grouped

- The „Annotations‟ (drawn items on the sections) are grouped

- Less buttons and less clutter

- Double click edit items – right click to edit or delete

Click button update of section outputs

- Display Update Status. Set this to auto and every change in the list of inputs will update the plot preview

- Outputted Sheets can Dynamically Update

- While you‟re editing the VGE click the rebuild button to regenerate your section sheets

- Set dynamic update controls to regenerate all your section output sheets, for all strings, as you save design changes

New Bands

- You can now add extra Bands to your output sections

- Design Code Band

- You can now report the design Codes (including translation of the names for local code name requirements) in a band

- Layer Band

- Report offsets of any objects on selected layer/s in a band. Objects can also be „tagged‟ with a name (see below).

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Tagging Objects in the Drawing for Inclusion on Sections

- Use lines, polylines, circles, arcs to add Offsets and information to the cross sections. Name objects for inclusion in the sections, both in the bands and on the display

Offset Filtering Controls and Band ‘Grouping’

- Plot any surface (from Civil 3D or Civil Site Design) and intelligently filter the triangles. Filter based on grade break, height difference, offset or chord height difference.

- Clean display of important features, regardless of the data source

- Selectively filter grade breaks in each Surface

- Choose how the band contributes to the offsets of other bands – either add it to the „pool of offsets or treat it on its own

Band Text Display Controls Enhanced – Label Styles

- Don‟t settle for a single line and „top left‟ centred text – apply Label Styles for the bands. Justify the text where you want in the band, use ticks instead of lines and add blocks in the band.

More customisation Controls

- You can now use a block for the headings, in case you want something completely different to the „standard‟ box and text offering

- Show sample lines in each Heading, to help correlate between the band and the drawn display

- In-band cranking is now supported, if that‟s your thing

- The old layer list is gone – work natively with the layers you have created in the drawing.

Grading

This ribbon has been enhanced to include functionality previously only contained in the Roads tab – Model Builder and surface creation/editing tools have been included on this ribbon tab

Data Share

This extends the functionality of the software for multi user collaboration. New functionality includes:

Create Share

o Share data from the CSD project folder and select what objects are shared o Data can be shared directly from the source project folder (known as a local

share) or to a „shared‟ network location o Data sharing extends across all CSD data types:

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Surfaces

Alignments Strings Pipe Networks

o Civil 3D data (surfaces and alignments) can be shared to the CSD data folder (it will then be treated as CSD object data)

Sync Share

o Click button update of anything shared from the source project/drawing o Changes are reflected automatically in all drawings/projects that are

referencing (reading) the Shared data

Read Share

o Establishes a link to any Shared data o Users can pick a Share folder, then choose what individual items/objects to

read into their project o All shared data is „read only‟ but can be used like any other object created in

the drawing o Automatically updates when the source data is updated (or the shared folder

is updated, pending how the data was shared)

Resolved Issues / Minor Improvements Note: We are moving away from displaying error notifications in Notepad and for this release we have created a new dialog for the display of error notifications. At this stage, not all error notifications will be displayed in this new dialog, however we plan to work on adding more over the next few releases.

Roads

Using All Roads (Total Model) for volume calculation now no longer includes strings with templates applied to them Volume Report - If calculation settings have been applied (for example between codes or rock surface has been changed), than these settings will be saved and used locally for the current project only.

Auto Plot allows user to setup cross section plots that utilise the new cross section engine.

Fixed - Deleting a knuckle wasn‟t updating the road cross sections without a road resample

Fixed – Kerb returns plotted name wasn‟t applied

Fixed - Breakline not functioning correctly through the centre of certain types of cul-de-sacs

Fixed - The AutoCAD Output command now has a tick box to omit XData – this will stop it from being updated automatically whenever the AutoCAD Output command is run.

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Pipes

The default cover applied to drainage pipes was being incorrectly applied – the pipe cover was being calculated twice in certain circumstances.

An issue with accuracy of setting pipe slopes using the Set Pipe Slope command in the pipe vertical grading editor has been fixed - this was rounding the slope to the nearest 0.1%

Fixed - Services set by obvert revert to invert in the VGE

Fixed - Cross sections that overlapped around a corner would display the wrong location of pipework

Software now uses the Lot Number to name the auto created house connections. format is H-[Software Number] Lot[Lot Number]

Fixed - If there is only one pipe in the system and you move a pipe end up/down you can get erratic results. This is because it is checking for HGL and setting slopes to achieve capacity results.

Fixed - When you delete a house connection including pits & pipes ARD does not remove it from the txt file, has to be manually done. It also keeps the co-ordinates so if you want to recreate with another name in the same location it defaults to the previous name.

Fixed – Values setup in the drainage inflow dialog were not being saved

Known Issues When created Roads, Kerb Returns and other Strings the following message may

display:

This message is advising that the Default Surface , as defined in the Global Drawing Settings, is not available in the current drawing. The current drawing settings (Local Drawing Settings) will not have a surface assigned. This can be fixed by doing the following:

o Run the command Roads Tab > Settings Panel > Active Drawing o On the Design Settings tab, assign a Default Surface Name using the

picklist The message was included following introduction of Data Sharing, where the surface used in a project to create Strings is critical to be included and shared to other projects.

In the Cross Section Plotting command, it is recommended that users do not use the Copy option on any Height Difference, Layers/Tagged Objects and Build Surface entries. The copied item will not update when changes are made to that entry. If an additional entry is required of this type, it is recommended to create as a new entry

In the Cross Section Plotting command, using the pick list to start the CSD Built Models command will display inactive (or incomplete) controls: Start/End range controls and Merge controls. These tools should not be used.

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Appendix – Model Viewer Help Information

Important Information about the Base Surface The Base Surface in Model Viewer was developed to provide the user with a general representation of the existing terrain - this surface is not an accurate representation of the existing surface specified. The software will re-triangulate the existing surface using the triangle points that make up the existing surface. The only boundaries (hide boundaries) added to the Base Surface are taken from the extents of the design surfaces specified when the Trim Base option is ticked on. At this stage, we have not developed a “paste surface” routine in the software. This is planned for next year. A „paste surface‟ routine would correctly split the triangles of the existing surface data using the extents of the design surfaces and therefore respect the existing triangulation. So in order to more accurately represent this surface, the user could either add more points to the existing surface or add more strings to the design surface, whereby levels of the string are matched to the existing surface. Run Model Viewer Locally (from –DATA folder) By default, all Model Viewer settings are accessed/stored in the Visualisation folder located in the common-10 location. C:\ProgramData\CSS\ARD\Common\common-10\Visualisation This means that styles created or textures added to Model Viewer are stored in the location above and only accessible to the user on that machine. If one of these styles is edited, than all other projects which use that style could be affected. By running the Run Local command, all settings for Model Viewer are stored in the –DATA folder location for the project and therefore become independent. All 3d models and aerial images will also be placed in this location. This means that by running this command, users can share their project with other users (or to the technical support team) and the styles and textures as specified by the originally designer will be used. Model Viewer Corruption (running the Reset command) If for whatever reason data in Model Viewer becomes corrupted, the user can run the Reset command, which is available in the Utilities tab found in the Viewer Settings. Restart Model Viewer after doing this.

** Warning ** – All data (including 3d models) will be removed from the project. Welcome Screen Videos (for BriscCAD users) BricsCAD users may not be able to watch some videos within the Welcome Screen. If this is the case, hold down shift and select the video link (for the blog entry or YouTube) to open in a new IE window – this should allow you to watch the video. Video Output (for BriscCAD users) BricsCAD users may not be able to record videos from Model Viewer, if this is the case than the following addition to the bricscad.exe.config file will need to be made. This file is found in the directory C:\Program Files\Bricsys\BricsCAD V15 en_US. Add the following to the file inside the <configuration> tag. <runtime> <generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/> </runtime> Video output formats

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Model Viewer only supports the output of AVI files. However, the free program Handbrake can be used to convert or compress the file outputted by Model Viewer. Download Handbrake - https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Recording video

When recording a video in Model Viewer, ensure that the Model Viewer window is left as is and no other windows are moved over this location. The video is created by taking screenshots and other windows may appear in the final video if moved within the extents of the Model Viewer window. It is recommended you don‟t use your computer whilst the record is in progress. Assign Materials to Triangle

This command may not work properly when the triangle selected has a material applied that is transparent. Turn off transparency from the Material Groups command prior to running this command. Vertical Exaggeration & 3d Models

It is not recommended that 3d models are added whilst a vertical exaggeration is set to Model Viewer. This can affect how levels are set to the object when the „drape elevation‟ option is used. Sight Distance In this version, the Sight Distance command will not take into account 3d models added to Model Viewer. This feature will be added in a future release of the software. Sight Distance Updating As long as the Sight Distance tab is opened on the ribbon, Model Viewer will update the sight distance check after refreshing Model Viewer. Aerial image drape supported formats Common image formats such as bmp, png, and gif are currently supported in Model Viewer. ECW files are not currently supported. If you wish to use an ECW file, than ER Mapper can be used to convert the

ECW to a JPG. ER Mapper - http://erdas-er-mapper.software.informer.com/download/ Rotation of image for aerial image drape

In this version, the software only supports rotation of the image up to 180 degrees. If it is required to rotate the image further, than it is suggested to flip the image using a program such as paint.net and re-importing into CAD. What is Trim Base? If Trim Base is checked on, than the extents of the surface specified will be used as a hide boundary on the Base Surface.

My design surface is not triangulating correctly and applying the correct materials?

This can occur when the last code on your design cross section is matched to the existing surface (at the same location as the batter). To resolve this, raise this code by 10mm My design surface is not trimming the base surface properly?

If the design surface is not trimming the base surface correctly, then there may be an issue with your design surface boundary. The best option to resolve this issue is to build your design surface using Model Builder and remove triangles using either CSD boundaries or by using the Delete Edge command. Does anyone actually read readme’s? I run Model Viewer from the ribbon, but the window does not display?

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If you run Model Viewer, but the window does not display then it could be possibly be displayed on a secondary screen. To ensure the window is displayed on your primary screen, try the following:

1) Click the icon in the taskbar to ensure that the program has focus. Then hold down the

Windows key and press the right-arrow a few times

2) Try the steps outlined in this blog (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-

off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/)

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V16.1

Readme for Advanced Road Design for Civil 3D,

AutoCAD and BricsCAD

V16.00

This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Advanced Road Design versions as described above. Advanced Road Design for Civil 3D is available for:

Multiple AutoCAD Civil 3D based releases: o AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016

Advanced Road Design for AutoCAD is available for:

Multiple AutoCAD based releases: o AutoCAD 2012 to AutoCAD 2016 o All AutoCAD derivatives (eg: AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D) release

versions 2012 to 2016

BricsCAD V15 (32bit and 64bit installs) .

Installation Instructions

You do not need to uninstall any previous versions of Advanced Road Design. This installation will install over the top of any previous ARD installation.

Network Installation Notes

A new version of the Network License Manager is available – this version addresses issues with proxy servers. See more details and install from the Civil Survey Solutions Subscription Centre – http://subscriptions.civilsurveysolutions.com.au

Installation Location Change

For Autodesk installations, there has been a requirement to change the installation location for the software. Previously the software was being installed to the C:\ProgramData folder. All installations new install the software to C:\Program Files.

About Licensing

This version uses the Infralution Licensing. For the ARD V16, release, all subscription customers will have received a new Serial Number (Activation Key) for this version. The V16 license key will activate any ARD V16 across all platforms (eg: ARD V16 on AutoCAD 2016 and ARD V16 on AutoCAD 2012 will both access the same license file). You can obtain your Serial Number directly from the Civil Survey Solutions Subscription Centre: http://advancedroaddesign.com.au/ardau/index.php/subscription-login

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New Features

Roads

Volumes Report o The Volumes report has been completely re-written. You can now toggle

between any strings to review volume reports in an interactive display window, and display summary volumes. You can establish your own column display outputs for volume information, and output to .csv files and as Tables directly in the drawing.

The new Volumes report will display when the volumes button is selected on the

Vertical Grading Editor window

Auto Plotting o You can now plot all Strings at once, for both long and cross

sections o You can set default plotting behaviour to apply to new

projects o Whenever new strings are introduced, the Auto Plot Settings

form will display for you to manage outputs of the new string/s

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General

Labels o New Labelling tools have been introduced.

Users can establish Label Styles to manage display of labels for different objects. Labels can consist of any combination of blocks, text objects and polyline objects. Grip edit of objects within the label group is fully supported, and text can be oriented relative to any line in the label style. Depending on the label, grip edit relocation of the label marker is also supported. You can now create Label Styles and generate Labels for the following objects:

o In Plan: Surface Labels: this includes spot elevations and slope direction

labels Elevations on Polyline: displays elevation and other information at

the vertices of a polyline Chainage (Station) at Polyline: displays chainage (station)

information for an alignment at a polyline vertex – the text position can be moved along the polyline and oriented relative to the polyline.

Pipe Network labels: display pit and pipe information on plan House Connection Labels: display house connection information on

plan

o Labels can be access from the General Ribbon Tab, Roads Ribbon tab and Pipes Ribbon tab.

o AutoCAD and BricsCAD users will have direct menu/ribbon access to the following additional label types

Multi String – labels codes in plan along a String VC Labels – labels vertical geometry on plan, along an alignment Distance – labels distances along polyline tangents

Backup option now includes the 7zip format. 7zip is a free file zip utility.

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Enhanced Features

Roads

Model Builder and Auto Model o Previously, including Auto Model created a trimmed model of all roads, kerb

returns, cul-des-sacs, knuckles and roundabouts, from which you could then append additional string objects and edit the model. If Auto Model changed, with inclusion of new strings or changes to kerb return radii, the entries in the Model Builder form did not update. Now, when you reopen your Model it will update all Auto Model entries.

Resolved Issues

Roads

The Reference Line command incorrectly calculated crossfalls when the Crossfall from Table option was selected

Model builder didn‟t correctly trim intersections that included roundabouts, when users opted to start with the automatic road model

Model builder included LBAT and RBAT codes on strings that did not have templates assigned, with these two codes set with an elevation of zero. These codes are now not included

When you edited a String in the Multi Setout form, it would reset the Point Number and Order columns back to zero.

The NSW Super Tables allow for a centreline offset to be included – this was not being applied.

Pipes

House connections now display on the Vertical Grading Editor – in the previous version the linework of the house connection did not display

In the Pipe Properties, the Level Adjustment was not being applied when From Surface was selected for the pit top lid level

The Plot to File option now includes more control over the output .dwg – previously the software built a .dwg using ACAD.dwt as the originating drawing

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Known Issues

The Plot to File option may use ACAD.dwt as the originating drawing when creating output files. We are still working on resolving this. Users impacted by this would need to set the Units of the drawing and type ADC at the command line to transfer data from a „good‟ drawing/template to the output drawing.

Labelling o If using a text Anchor to Symbol control, the symbol that is being anchored

must be above the text in the list and flagged to be an anchor for text o Changing label styles in the Surface Label Styles form, then using Move

Label, will result in an apparent duplication of labels using the old and new style. Click on Add/Update labels to restore the labels correctly

Grading o The new Volumes tool will not correctly describe grading volumes. Use the

Civil 3D volume tools or the Advanced Road Design Surface Volumes command, or the Volumes button on the Grading form

o Grading Strings are not output to long and cross section outputs in the Auto Plot routine

o Grading will trim between two adjoining sections only – it will not resolve grading between non-adjacent lines without overlapping

When creating a kerb return, there is an option to set the Connection Point Code. This can only be applied at the time of creating the kerb return – changing it later will not update the kerb connection. The kerb return would need to be deleted and recreated using the Delete button on the kerb return form.

Adding a curve to a service pipe that results in intersecting of a sewer or drainage network twice, will not register any intersections/clashes.

In Advanced Road Design for BricsCAD, ensure MTFLAGS (for multi-threading), is turned OFF. Some users have experienced the software crashing when this system variable is turned on.

When assigning Sewer Manhole symbols, it is possible to automatically assign the symbol from one Pit Type to the next selected Pit Type, if that second Pit Type did not already have a symbol actively defined. Once the symbol is set by the user, it does not get edited when toggling between Pit Types.

If curved pipes are given a negative radius they will not update display on road long and cross sections, even if they are subsequently deleted. First, change the radius value on curved pipes to a positive value, then edit/delete as appropriate.

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Tables (BricsCAD Customers Only)

If you cannot create BricsCAD tables from the Advanced Road Design table output commands, there is an option to revert to standard CAD entity tables. The process is:

Open the Active Drawing Settings > Styles Tab

Tick on the option „Draw Tables as Lines and Text‟ When you select table output, the pick list of available table styles will change to match with the ARD Table Styles you have set up.

About Editing the BricsCAD Table output – ARD Table Styles

Users can edit the table output by opening the file ardtablestyles.txt in the ARD Settings folder – this table sets out the text font, text heights (and row heights) for the title, headings and data rows. Edit in Notepad as required: A view of a sample file is below for your reference and to „see‟ the format of the file

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Important information - .NET Framework 3.5.1

If you're experiencing issues running Advanced Road Design (i.e. you receive an 'Unknown command' whilst running the software), ensure that Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 is turned on. You can turn on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 by following these steps... 1. Type 'Windows Features' in the Windows Start menu 2. Run 'Turn Windows Features on or off'. 3. Ensure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 is ticked on.