Released in Civil Site Design V23.10, the Excel Export & Excel Link tools were added to improve the way customers could interact with design elements, outside the software.
Excel Export can export design information from your alignments, strings and models directly to an Excel workbook. This can be useful for reporting and reviewing the design. Excel Link can import a Excel workbook data and assign it back to the design. Where there is a requirement to make bulk edits to cross sections in the Design Data Form, the Excel link can be used to create multiple entries from a single workbook.
In this Driveway Layback playlist we start by demonstrating how, with the application of Design Variations in the Design Data Form, users can use the Linearly Vary function to adjust the kerb template codes, forming a layback shape. This manual process is key to understanding how the Excel Link function is then used to automatically apply the Design Variations in a single command.
We have linked the Excel workbook, referenced in the videos, so users can try this themselves and experiment with the different kerb shape variables and apply the Design Variations to a string. https://downloads.civilsurveysolutions.com/CSD/Documents/Drives.xlsx
We've enhanced the superelevation tools to make it easier for you to quickly and easily assess output of rules-based superelevation, and to make it simple for you to use this tool to vary pavement crossfalls and widths.
Civil Site Design, Stringer Topo & Corridor EZ V24.10 forms will accomodate 4K text scaling.
Bulk earthworks play a key part on many projects and determining the volumes can be a time consuming process. Released in Civil Site Design V23.10, the Subgrade Model Manager (SMM) was developed to assist users with creating subgrade surfaces of any model within the project.
In this webinar we demonstrate the best practice for using Model Builder and unpack all the functionality to operate it successfully, using a road and parking bay design.