Most important features Added in Release 11.0

Road/Highway Design Controls/Checkings by Standards

• Possibility to specify basic design parameters
• Possibility to change basic design parameters along the route
  

• A new dialog box named as "Design Assistant" to facilitate design controls/checkings

Design Controls/Checkings for horizontal alignment of a route:

• Checking minimum horizontal curve radius
• Checking minimum required proration length in horizontal curves
• Checking maximum horizontal curve radius indicating whether spiral transition curve is needed

• Checking minimum spiral length based on formula
• Checking minimum spiral length based on minimum required proration length

• Checking maximum spiral length based on formula
• Checking Lt length before the starting spiral or after the ending spiral

• Checking ratio of radiuses in compound circular curves
• Checking total length of compound circular curve
• Checking straight part length required between reverse curves (absolute value)
• Checking straight part length required between reverse curves (suitable value)

• Checking minimum straight part length in broken-back curves
• Checking for no horizontal curve needed condition
• Checking minimum length of horizontal curve

Design Controls/Checkings in vertical alignment of a route:

• Checking maximum grade (slope) of project line and determining the maximum slope automatically
• Checking minimum grade (slope) of project line

• Checking minimum vertical curve length required and automatic design of vertical curves
• Checking vertical curve length by stopping sight distance
• Checking vertical curve length by passing sight distance

• Checking maximum grade of project line inside tunnels (absolute value)
• Checking maximum grade of project line inside tunnels (suitable value)

• Analysis and calculations of critical slope lengths required for climbing lanes
• Analysis and calculations regarding sight obstructions for edges cuttings in cross sections
  

• Analysis and calculations of passing forbidden parts regarding horizontal curves
• Checking for horizontal curves not overlapped

Other Important Features Added In This Version

• Possiblity to design and drawing of a variety of serpentine curves including Symmetrical, Assymmetrical, Full serpentine and Half serpentine
• Creation of one text object as paragraph containing horizontal curves information for each IP while extracting profile and sections along a route automaically

• Automatic creation of route's information icon containing all extracting parameters for every extracted route

• Possibility to restationing a route changing kilometers/hectometers along with horizontal curves information when editing a route polyline using PEDIT command with new sub-command "S to Stationing"

• Possibility to specify a new name when copying complex objects having major and minor attached objects
• Possibility to select icons by their importance factors
• Displaying of design controls/checkings icons both in plan and Profiler window
• Possibility to create user comments icons in Profiler window in design control

• Displaying of critical slope length parts and climbing lanes regions in Profiler window
• Displaying edge cuttings regions along with required edge cutting values for every cross section in Profiler window
• Displaying of passing forbidden parts in Profiler window

• Possibility to calculate minimum radius and minium proration length automatically in "Horizontal Curves Information" dialog box

• Displaying of basic design parameters icons in "Horizontal Curves Information", "Line of Project", and "Cross Section Information" dialog boxes
• Possibility to ask for all design controls/checkings for an existing route at once using Batch process
• A new selection mode named as "Narrow mode" for filtering objects in a selection set