Civil Designer User Group Workshops

The first set of user group sessions kicked off in East London on 17 May 2007. The user group meetings have been designed in order to provide clients with an opportunity to receive interactive workshops presented by the Knowledge Base software developers within their fields of expertise.

Arcus Gibb and Africon were among the first to receive presentations covering Sewer House Connections in the Sewer module as well as the latest SWMM methodology in the Stormwater module. The sessions delivered by Stormwater Developer Johan Swart and National Key Accounts Manager Reece Hanning also provided a sneak preview on new functionality in the upcoming 6.5 version.

Other user group meetings conducted in the Mpumalanga region on 23 - 24 May included presentations at Endecon, Tumber Fourie, Mbombela Local Municipality, and the Department of Agriculture. During these sessions the Roads Developer Dawid du Toit focused on Quantities and Templates in the current Civil Designer version and also reviewed some of the new functionality in the upcoming version. Seen in the picture: Staff members at Tumber Fourie Nelspruit with Dawid du Toit and David Bredenkamp from Knowledge Base.

Product News 

AUXILLARY LANES

	The upcoming Civil Designer 6.5 version allows the addition of Auxillary Lanes in the Roads Module via a simple dialogue, facilitating the creation of climbing lanes, drop off areas, bus embankments and other lanes. The function allows you to specify the left or right alignment, the width, the start and end
chainage position, the taper lead-in and lead-out length and the layer works template to be applied before the auxillary lane is automatically created. The Auxillary Lanes Function also includes a 'Speed Profiles' tool which calculates the point on an ascent at which a climbing lane should be positioned.

Civil Designer Training Opportunities

Visits & Training Activities

Tech Tip

Drainage Network

Using the Drainage Network function to show dominant water routes over a grid surface.
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Customer Quote

Bernard Masher
Du Plessis & Burger Consulting Engineers, Nelspruit
A FIRST OF ITS KIND

"With this project our focus was on a major bulk irrigation water supply system, bulk electricity supply, road infrastructure, irrigation land and agro-business developments, making design software like Civil Designer invaluable."

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Support & Development

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CURRENT VERSION: CIVIL DESIGNER 6.4

Here are the latest downloads available on the updates page:

• Civil Designer v6.4
  Build 9 (14/05/2007)
• Civil Designer v6.4
  Build 4 (05/12/2006)
• Civil Designer v6.4
  Hasp Driver Update (13/02/2007) 

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