Civil Site Design v27 introduces major advancements across AI-powered workflows, drainage design, interactive model editing, and 3D visualisation. From intelligent project setup to advanced storage analysis, this release is designed to help engineers spend less time configuring tools and more time delivering great outcomes.

Project Assist AI: Context-Aware Support Inside CAD

Civil Site Design – Project Assist AI

Project Assist AI brings a new level of intelligence directly into the Civil Site Design environment. By understanding both your project data and design context, it provides instant assistance without leaving your drawing.

Whether you’re looking for technical guidance, reviewing specifications, or generating reports, Project Assist AI helps streamline everyday workflows and reduce time spent searching for information.

Tex: Your Technical Assistant and Reporting Tool

Tex generating reports and analysing drawings

Tex acts as your real-time support and reporting assistant, capable of analysing project data, answering technical questions, and generating detailed reports directly from your design.

By combining access to the Civil Site Design skill library with live drawing inspection, Tex can provide context-aware answers and export HTML reports with minimal effort.

Key Benefits

• Generate project reports automatically

• Receive contextual technical support

• Review specifications instantly

• Export reports directly from CAD

Intelligent Sections AI: Create Complex Conditional Sections Faster

Creating conditional cross sections no longer requires manually building complex decision tables.

Simply describe your desired section in plain language, including features such as table drains, bench batters, and retaining walls, and Intelligent Sections AI automatically generates the underlying logic and decision tables.

This dramatically reduces setup time while maintaining design flexibility.

FastTrack: AI-Powered Project Setup

FastTrack Interface

FastTrack, formerly known as Project Assist, helps users move from concept to design faster than ever.

Describe your project at a high level and FastTrack will automatically identify road centrelines, detect curb returns and boundaries, and recommend suitable cross section templates.

FastTrack Automatically:

• Identifies road centrelines

• Detects curb returns

• Recognises project boundaries

• Suggests cross section templates

Visual Model Editing with Interactive Trim Grips

Trim grips being dragged to update extents for a bridge

v27 introduces a more intuitive approach to model trimming.

Instead of manually entering chainages in Model Builder, visual trim grips can now be manipulated directly within the drawing. Simply drag the grips to adjust trim extents instantly.

The result is a faster, more interactive editing workflow with complete control over model limits.

Stage Storage: Advanced Basin Analysis and Visualisation

Storage calculations and 3D basin visualisation

The new Stage Storage tool automates basin and depression storage analysis, helping designers quickly evaluate detention basins and wetlands.

Generate stage-storage tables, calculate spill elevations, and review results within an interactive 3D environment that makes understanding storage behaviour easier than ever.

Key Outputs

• Spill elevations

• Stage-storage tables

• Basin capacity analysis

• Interactive 3D visualisation

Enhanced 3D Visualisation and Sectioning

3D Infrastructure Visualisation

Civil Site Design v27 expands support for native CAD 3D geometry, allowing designers to visualise and section:

• 3D polylines

• Solids

• Meshes

• Faces

These elements can now be viewed alongside Civil Site Design models in Model Viewer, Vertical Grading Editor, and Quick Section Tools.

This provides greater project context and more comprehensive design reviews.

Centralised Pipe Network Management

Pipe Network Interface

Pipe networks now have a dedicated home within the Civil Site Design Tool Space.

The new interface provides a structured, hierarchical view of pipes, structures, and catchments, making network management easier and more organised.

Users can also generate long sections and export network data directly from a single location.

Experience the Future of Civil Design

Civil Site Design v27 delivers one of the most significant updates to the platform to date. With AI-powered assistance, automated design workflows, advanced drainage analysis, interactive editing tools, and enhanced 3D visualisation, v27 helps engineers work smarter and deliver projects with greater confidence.

Upgrade today and discover what’s possible with Civil Site Design v27.