Newsletter - 20 October 2005

Company News

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The IMESA Conference is currently underway at the Feather Market Centre in Port Elizabeth. The conference will continue until 13:00 on Friday 21 October 2005. Please feel free to visit the Knowledge Base team at stands 5 and 6 and stand in line to win one of three USB 2.0 Mini Flash drives with a storing capacity of 1GB.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please find below the link to the map for the Feather Market Centre In Port Elizabeth:

LINK TO MAP:  http://www.sbs.co.za/imesa2005/Imesa2005_map.pdf

 

The Turn module is a versatile and easy to use program that is used extensively in a number of projects to design roundabouts, intersections, parking areas, loading bays and warehouses. This integrated module of Civil Designer simulates the low speed turning manoeuvres of user defined vehicles along a specified tracking path.

You can define the tracking path centre line which can be done automatically or manually. You can also specify the vehicle group file name where an active vehicle may be selected from the Vehicle combo box. In addition, vehicles may be added to the current Vehicle Group file or even deleted from the group. The interval at which the defined track path may be coordinated, can be specified in the Coordination Interval (m) edit box. If you make this value small, the simulation will be accurate but slow. More line entities will also be added to the drawing structure.

TURN MODULE - Tracking Path Click to Enlarge

We support the following vehicle configurations:

• Single unit vehicles;

• Vehicles with trailers;

• Articulated trucks and interlinks, and

• Aircrafts.

The simulation required may be specified in the Simulation Type combo box. You can also specify the direction that the vehicle should travel on the track path. Forward and reverse simulations can be done using any of the above vehicle configurations. In addition, the minimum turning envelopes can be generated by simply indicating a start position and an initial direction of movement. You can then drag the entire envelope to check critical sections of intersections, traffic circles and parking areas. Each simulation displays an output graph which can be used to determine how close the design vehicle is to any point along the path at its maximum steering angle. The Turn module allows you to configure intricate vehicle routes according to the type of vehicle required quickly and effectively and can be one of your best time saving tools ever!

Here are the latest downloads available on the updates page:

• Civil Designer v6.3
  Build 25 (10/10/2005)

• Civil Designer v6.3
  Updated Water Help file (14/05/2004)

• Civil Designer v6.2
  Build 33 (31/05/2004)

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If you are interested in training, please contact your regional office to make your booking as the courses are extremely popular.

 

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Our Customer Consultants will be involved in the following visits and training activities over the next couple of weeks. Please feel free to give us a call on (021) 701-1850. We would be happy to meet up with you to discuss your training or product needs.

Best Regards,
The Knowledge Base Team
www.knowbase.co.za

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