In this webinar, CGS Labs experts presented the newest features, enhancements, and fixes in the CGS Labs Civil Solutions 2026.1, designed to make your infrastructure design workflows more efficient, flexible, and precise.
Thank you to everyone who attended the webinar live and especially those who contributed with questions.
In this release, several improvements were made for all users of Plateia, Ferrovia, and Aquaterra, presented by their respective product managers:
- Klemen Ozimek: Plateia Product Manager
- Petra Tihole: Ferrovia Product Manager
- Jan Cunja: Aquaterra and AutoSign Product Manager
Read further to discover how the latest version updates can improve your daily design work and project efficiency.
Designed With Users in Mind
One of the defining characteristics of the 2026.1 release is that a significant number of updates were driven directly by user feedback. Our team focused on “quality of life” improvements, meaning eliminating repetitive tasks and ensuring your data is kept during iterative design changes. We also worked on minor performance enhancements to bring you better and smoother experience.
Here is a recap of the key features demonstrated during the session.
Common Enhancements Across the Suite
Several updates apply to the entire CGS Labs Civil Solutions family (Plateia, Ferrovia, and Aquaterra), improving core usability.
New Intuitive Labeling Interface
We have completely overhauled the settings for Main Elements and Sample Lines labels. The new interface includes a dynamic preview window, so you can see changes to text height, positioning, and style in real-time. Crucially, label settings are now stored independently for each alignment. This means you can have different label styles for your main axis versus your secondary ones without them overwriting each other.
Plateia: Support for the New Polish Standard
For roadway engineers, the focus of the update was on compliance and flexibility.
Plateia now fully supports the updated Polish roadway standards (WR-D). This includes redefined road categories, updated design speeds, and new algorithms for calculating curve widening based on design vehicles.
Autosign: Enhanced editing and visualisations
The 2026.1 update introduces features that make editing easier and visualisations more accurate.
Quicker Sign Editing
You can now edit text on existing signs without having to delete and recreate the element (even those with 3D representations). This new Edit Text command significantly speeds up updates when sign content changes.
Improved Ghost Islands
We’ve refined the Ghost Island tool to offer dynamic control over hatch directions and added a “filled tip” option. Crucially, 3D draping has been optimised, ensuring markings conform perfectly to the terrain surface for accurate BIM models.
Ferrovia: Railway Design Precision
The updates to Ferrovia tackle data integrity and interoperability, addressing some of the most common requests from rail engineers.
Cant Editor Improvements
The Cant Editor has been transformed into a flexible tool with many improvements: you can now copy and paste directly to and from Excel, allowing for complex external calculations. Also, the software now preserves your cant data when you make minor edits to the alignment geometry, preventing the frustration of lost work during design tweaks.
Automatic Planimetry
The “Insert Railway” command now features an Automatic Planimetry option. This automatically generates the planimetric quantities (areas for ballast, sleepers, etc.) for rail elements the moment they are inserted, streamlining the Quantity Take-Off (QTO) process.
There is more…Are you ready to try it out?
The 2026.1 update is already available and supports Autodesk AutoCAD / Civil 3D versions 2020-2026 and BricsCAD versions V23-26. We encourage all users to download the latest build to take advantage of these updates.
The webinar addressed even more updates in detail, and you can watch the complete session on-demand here.
For an even more detailed information of the release, read the CGS Labs Software Release notes.