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Software
modules
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Customise your
HighRoad software with modules to suit your
particular project:
Extra
Roads/Pads Module
This module allows you to design up to 100 roads
and 100 building pads. It extends the HighRoad S
model which designs one pad and one road (this
module is included in HighRoad Plus and Pro
models).
Extra
Points Module
The Extra Points Module increases the current point
capacity by ten times. For example, HighRoad S has
a capacity of 500 points. Adding one Extra Points
Module increases its capacity to 5,000. Adding a
second Extra Points module will increase it to
50,000 points and so on. You can continue to
increase the capacity up to a maximum of 500,000
points.
Intersections
Module
This module provides for the automatic design of
intersections and cul-de-sacs and is one of
HighRoad's most powerful features. It automatically
calculates the horizontal and vertical geometry of
intersections, maintaining the geometry as you make
changes to any of the components of the associated
roads (eg. vertical or horizontal alignment, and
typical section width and crossfall). You really
have to see this in action to appreciate the
enormous amount of work that is being done behind
the scenes.
Datalogger
Module
The Datalogger Module allows upload and download
from electronic data loggers and electronic total
stations from various manufacturers. The module
includes translators for these data formats:
- TOPCON FC4,
related data loggers and total stations using
this format,
- Wild/Leica
GSI,
- Geodimeter
HP48, and
- Sokkia/Sokkisha
SDR.
The data from
these data loggers can be downloaded by direct
connection to the serial port of your computer.
This requires a suitable cable which is not
supplied by Creative Engineering, however we can
provide technical notes with pinout information.
Total stations
which use memory cards, known as PC cards (used to
be called PCMCIA cards), can be used. You will need
either a computer with a card slot or separate card
reader attached to your computer. Some data loggers
(such as some Wild/Leica models) have a proprietary
communications protocol and require download
software provided by the manufacturer.
Import/Export
Module
The Import/Export module includes translators for
these data formats:
- DXF.
You can import terrain data in DXF format such
as topographic map contours, so it can be used
to create a triangulated terrain model. The DXF
import includes a filter to reduce the number of
data points. This is particularly useful when
data is in the form of contour lines which often
have far more points than are needed to create a
triangulated DTM.
You can export drawings of plan, profile and
cross sections as 2D DXF files representing
drawing sheets which make up a project. These
can then be used in a CAD program to finalise
the drawings for construction and pricing
purposes. You can also export the terrain model
in 3D DXF format for use in other software for
the purpose of visualisation or other
modelling.
- NTF.
This data format is developed by the UK Ordnance
Survey for topographic and cadastral maps. It
includes terrain information such as breaklines.
This module's NTF translator allows the import
of NTF data to create terrain models.
- MOSS.
You can import terrain in MOSS format and export
road design data in MOSS format. This format
includes terrain information such as
breaklines.
- CLIP
III. Cross
section data can be exported in this format.
- CivilCAD.
You can import and export terrain data in this
format. This format includes terrain information
such as breaklines.
- GDL.
This allows you to export the terrain model in a
format to suit ArchiCAD. You can read this into
ArchiCAD as a library item.
- Quickdraw
3D. This
translator allows you to export the terrain
model in Quickdraw 3D metafile format. Many
Macintosh programs allow you to view Quickdraw
3D objects (eg the SimpleText application that
comes with MacOS can read and display Quickdraw
3D objects).
3D
Visualisation Module
(Macintosh only
- available for Windows soon)
This module is used in conjunction with the road
design module and allows you to visualise driving
along the road. This is useful to show road design
projects to non-technical stake-holders such as
community groups. It is also useful from a design
point of view to indicate areas of alignment which
have poor sight distance.
The drive
through simulation is created as a Quicktime movie
and can be viewed on most computers. It can also be
placed on a web site for viewing and individual
"birds-eye" views can also be created.
Drawing
Manager Module
The Drawing Manager module provides a window where
you can lay out a set of drawings for a project.
You can place parts of any plan, profile, or cross
sections onto a drawing sheet. Each part is placed
in a frame which can have its own scale and display
options and a link is still maintained with the
design data. Therefore, any changes to the design
are automatically carried through to the drawing
layout. The benefit for you is that you need only
lay out the drawings once, and then plot or export
them whenever design changes are made.
Extra
DTM Module
This module allows you to create an additional
terrain model to model a rock layer or to be used
for tracking construction progress on a road
contract.
When used as a
rock layer you can extract reports of excavation
volumes. When used for progress tracking you can
run quantities whenever a progress claim is to be
submitted or evaluated. HighRoad will list work
done, and work remaining at each cross section of a
road, and at whatever interval you require.
Rockfall
Simulation Module
This module allows the dynamic modelling of
rockfall and is based on the Colorada Rockfall
Simulation Program. You can use this module to help
in the design of rockfall protection measures such
as gabion walls above highways, railways and other
assets that require protection. Contact
Creative Engineering for more
detail about this module.
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