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Easily Managed Workflow
GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite gives you the technology to easily manage your entire project workflow with the Project Manager interface. This feature assists you with tracking project files, recording project histories and saving design project settings. Project Manager virtually steps you through the design process and populates repetitive design data for you automatically.
Organized in a real-world project workflow, the Project Manager interface lets you retrieve tools at the appropriate step in the design process. From a single dialog, you can manage existing ground sections and profiles, proposed alignments, cross sections, earthworks and reporting. By saving and exact history of the project, Project Manager enables engineers to share work and quickly recall projects at any time.
A unique 3-Port Viewer interactively synchronizes your work in three separate files or views: plan, profile and cross section. This eliminates the need to switch between files for review of the design results in multiple drawings. For example, you can preview the right-of-way impacts from the cut and fill slopes in plan view, while assessing the earthwork impact in cross section view.
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Integrated Plans Production
GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite includes an extensive set of plans production tools for annotating, labeling, sheet composition and tabular arrangements for plan, profile and cross section sheets. These tools are common to all modules included in the suite to eliminate inconsistencies between discipline-specific activities. Accurate information is extracted from a common geometry database that can be accessed from all modules by multiple users. To ensure consistency and conform to design standards, the software draws design features according to user-defined symbology used by the entire project team. Additionally you can generate construction quantities from these graphics and transfer the quantities to programs such as AASHTO Trans*port software for a comprehensive project estimate.
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Design Standardization
You can choose from multiple options for standardizing your production results. Each module utilizes a discipline-specific database and preference files for customizing your design output. Customizable feature management ensures field surveys are consistent with each deliverable as your company determines the method for representing existing conditions. This takes the guesswork out of recognizing features such as waterlines or utility structures when reviewing data delivered from the field.
The Design and Computation Manager ensures that your implementation of consistent drafting standards will result in accurate project quantity calculations, improving the quality of your project deliverable. You can place design features using custom-defined symbology and automatically compute and accurate estimate of construction costs at any phase of the project. You have the flexibility to define methods for computing pavement quantities and customize the inclusion of tabular data on plan sheets. The suite delivers a set of sample files to assist you in a quick startup; all are completely modifiable.
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Intelligent Roadway Design
GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite offers powerful tools for developing any roadway design, from the most complex interchange designs to basic subdivision roads. You can develop corridor studies, as well as simple roadway designs, with the composite section tool in the software’s Site module. Intersections and roundabouts are designed with minimal effort as well, as you can interactively develop edges of pavements, quickly determine the impacts and validate your design decisions in real time. The software produces highly accurate results when generating slope limits, balancing earthworks and calculating project quantities.
Advanced Criteria routines allow for complex decision-making to be accomplished in a single process while producing proposed cross sections. The user-customizable routines enable you to address a limitless array of practical uses, from controlling standard placement of design features-such as curbs, guardrails and retaining walls-to analyzing existing conditions and automatically making design decisions. Criteria can draw complex roadways and adjoining structures according to your predefined standards-greatly improving productivity and accuracy of design.
A 3-Port Criteria application extends the traditional design process into a threefold approach. As you create your proposed design in plan, profile or cross section files, the design feature automatically draws in all three files. For example, a ditch grade can be generated in profile view from the proposed cross section as it is being created and, simultaneously slope limits are drawn into plan view. All impacts of a proposed roadway section are viewed at one time in the 3-Port Viewer mode.
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Field-to-Finish Integration
The suite allows for complete field-to-finish project integration. With survey data management, site development tools, complex roadway design capability, bridge design and analysis functions and more, all modules communicate with one another seamlessly. An all-inclusive package of design tools allows you to handle any design circumstance without translating data, adjusting your preferred workflows, or modifying your current deliverables. You control all output whether it is topo display, plan sheet appearance, quantity calculation methods or construction stakeout format. Intelligent associativity between design disciplines removes risk of error and ensures consistent, accurate plan production – actually improving constructability of your project.
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