Advanced Road Design

Comprehensive Tools — Complete Control

Advanced Road Design (ARD) has been developed to

provide Australian based road design and outputs
directly inside AutoCAD® Civil 3D®. Our philosophy
of combining template and string based design, as
well as automating common design elements such as
intersections and roundabouts, provides a familiar and
complete set of tools for rapid creation and output of
your road subdivision, reconstruction, rural, highway Plotting and Publishing to
and other design projects. Australian Drafting Standards
Built for the AutoCAD® Civil 3D® design environment, Your design is done – the next step is publishing it in
ARD features a streamlined design interface to merge AutoCAD® Civil 3D® so you can plot your tender and
seamlessly with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and work with Civil construction plans. ARD has all the tools you need to
3D® objects. Centralised design tools make it easy for rapidly generate industry standard outputs of your
you to edit any design element without having to search designs directly inside AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, ready for
through multiple commands or run sequential routines. immediate plotting.
With the ARD Vertical Design Windows you get complete With ARD you can interactively control the sheet layout,
access to any selected design element including editing scales, layers and linetypes as well as what to present
the vertical design and cross-sections, establishing cut/ in your outputs. Plotting output styles can be saved for
fill bulking factors, generating summary volume reports reuse, and you can output them to separate drawings or
and creating surface models of your designs. as layouts in the current AutoCAD® drawing.
Setout, plan plotting of the models and slope patterns
Multiple Dynamic Vertical Design
are all created directly inside your AutoCAD® drawing.
Windows
Critical to your design and optimisation process is the General Road Design
ability to review multiple vertical designs and road
With dynamic interactions between elements, the
design elements simultaneously, with all cross-sections
ability to mix cross-section and string elements and the
and other dependent elements updating dynamically as
ability to build your own models using any collection of
you make edits. Any road element can be opened into
strings and codes from your designed road elements, it
a resizable, repositionable design window allowing you
is easy to generate designs for any purpose, including
to manage the interaction between related components
road subdivisions, reconstruction works, car parks, open
and make informed design decisions.
channels, general site regrading, etc.
Each Vertical Design Window provides direct control
over the vertical design as well as the ability to review
and edit cross-sections for the selected design element.
Advanced design tools allow you to establish a vertical
design based on the existing surface levels or the vertical
design of any other design element.
With a centralized design centre accessed from the
Vertical Design Window you can easily edit your cross-
sections including assigning alignment/string controls
and establishing design constraints. As you make design
changes your cross-sections instantly update, including
recalculation of subgrades and volumes.
Get the control you want and the instant access you need
using Vertical Design Windows.

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Road Design for Subdivision
With ARD you can completely automate your road
subdivision design processes using intelligent objects to
handle common design elements such as intersections,
kerb returns, cul-de-sacs, roundabouts and knuckles.
Kerb returns automatically and dynamically position
themselves both horizontally and vertically to the
intersecting roads. Design wizards allow for user
creation of single or multi radius kerb returns, or use
of your own alignments. The auto kerb return function
creates multiple kerb returns at once, all matched to the
intersecting roads and with cross-sections automatically
matching between the main and side roads.
Cul-de-sac design can be parametrically driven with
support for circular, asymmetric, tear-drop, Y and
T-shaped configurations or your own alignment. After
setting the values ARD will lay it out horizontally and
vertically to match the incoming Road and with cross-
sections automatically matching the road at either end.
The Roundabout tools allow the designer to quickly
establish levels around your selected island and edge of
carriageway alignments to suit your intersection levels,
as well as assigning cross-sections to describe your
internal island.
Localised road widenings are easily achieved using the
Knuckle tool, which creates localised widenings that stay
attached to the road as you make design changes.
At the click of a button a surface model is created
incorporating all the road, kerb returns, cul-de-sacs,
roundabouts and knuckles including all trimming of
strings at intersections and automatic inclusion of
boundaries.
Road Reconstruction
ARD has been developed with road reconstruction in
mind. Featuring advanced cross-section subgrade tools,
independent vertical and/or horizontal control over any
part of your cross-section, and the ability to form models
using any collection of independently graded strings and
cross-section codes, ARD is the premium design tool for
road reconstruction works.
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Specific vertical design tools are included to help
automate road reconstruction processes, including
the ability to automatically design based on resheet/
overlay depths, match surface controls and string/code
projections, as well as displaying design ‘envelopes’
(projections from another string/code at grade).
Advanced cross-section design tools allow you to
manage your cross-sections easily and the dynamic
cross-section viewer allows you to review your edits as
you make them.
Using the subgrade design tools you can generate
accurate volume outputs through multiple layers, with
automatic adjustment of pavement layer depths to
match existing surfaces.
ARD’s advanced modeling tools allow you to put
together any collection of roads, strings and cross-
section codes, over user-selected chainage ranges, to
allow for all your design requirements.
Major Road and Highway Design
When doing larger scale designs that may include
service roads, multiple divided carriageways and
grade separated intersections, complete user control,
design controlled batter outputs, as well as scalability
are critical factors in your design efficiency. The ARD
design environment is a proven performer on large
scale projects, with customers reporting excellent
performance when designing single projects in excess of
20km and managing surface data containing millions of
points.
ARD includes specific design tools for highway designers
in managing grade separated roads, as well as intelligent
design tools for managing multiple benching conditions
and open drains.
Civil Survey Solutions is Australia’s leading provider
of AutoCAD-based design solutions for the civil and
survey industry. We develop application software
to improve your productivity and provide industry-
experienced professionals for implementation,
training and ongoing technical support.
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