CGS Labs Civil Solutions

Autosign provides several country-specific road-signaling libraries defined by national guidelines, including traffic signs, longitudinal road markings, crossing road markings, and various other pavement markings.

Users also have an advanced option to create a custom library of their own traffic signs blocks and use them in the designs with the same features that are available with the original Autosign signs.

Available localized libraries of country-specific traffic signs and road marking with 3D/BIM support:

Autosign incorporates a broad collection of street furniture such as road gantries, traffic lights, and many more.

When you are working on road design projects in either Civil 3D, AutoCAD or BricsCAD, Autosign can be used to draw and plan a complete road signalization and prepare the necessary documentation.

You can link Autosign signaling elements (traffic signs and road markings) to the information of your Civil 3D alignment, or any other Polyline alignment in your drawing.

Parking lot design tool enables a parametric design of parking lots. To speed up the design process, Autosign provides a wide variety of floor markings that can be assigned to the design: single lines, double lines, dashed lines, coloring, and many more. Users can either take advantage of the predefined markings that are specific to individual countries* or they can choose to define markings with custom parameters that can be saved for repeated use.

All floor markings created with Autosign can be projected on the road surface or any other surface of the DTM, creating 3D floor markings, with assigned BIM properties.

The parking lot design report is another handy feature that will provide you with a detailed table of quantities which can be either included directly in the design or exported to XLS format for further use.

Autosign creates traffic signs, portals, road markings, and other side road objects as 3D solid objects. Based on this you can easily create attractive 3D visualizations, and use the 3D model for sight analysis and safety measures.

Autosign creates traffic signs, portals, road markings, and other side road objects as BIM objects (3D solid objects with assigned Property Set data), that can be viewed and manipulated in Autodesk Navisworks and InfraWorks or exchanged through the IFC 4.2 file format to be used in any BIM-ready software solution.

Check for possible collisions (clashes) that may occur between 3D traffic signs and other 3D BIM sub-models in your project. Analyze collisions, and find the best solutions to avoid them – all within your CAD drawing.

Autosign comes with detailed and customizable reporting capabilities for every traffic sign and road marking placed in the design, including new and existing signs listing, quantities take-off, and export to Excel feature.

Autosign provides the option to import earth surface data (raster imagery and elevation data) from Google Maps directly into your CAD drawing to help visualize areas where the projects are located.

You can also export your 3D designs directly to Google Earth. In this way, you can create accurate visualizations on the exact location of the project.

AUTOPATH includes several country-specific reference vehicle libraries defined by national guidelines, and an extended collection of vehicles from different manufacturers, covering aircraft, buses, cranes, emergency vehicles, trucks, agricultural machinery and more.

In the latest version, Autopath gets an extensive number of vehicle libraries and utility vehicle types added to the existing vehicle list, vehicle types ranging from agricultural vehicles, emergency vehicles, buses, trucks, trailers for wind turbine transport, cranes, forklifts and more.

Using the Horizontal or Vertical Analysis feature, you can easily and quickly simulate vehicle maneuvers and check transportability. Autopath works in AutoCAD, Civil 3D or BricsCAD environments. You can check for possible conflicts and inconsistencies of the vehicle path with other vehicles or with built objects. You can also create a steering wheel report – graphic diagram, presenting the intensity of rotation of the vehicle wheels along the vehicle path.

Vehicle movement animations in the form of trajectories that are created in CAD drawing using Autopath can be easily exported to Google Earth. There you can quickly create presentations for the client and the interested public and share your analysis results online, allowing other participants in the project to provide you with quality, up-to-date feedback.

Autopath comes with advanced reporting capabilities for each swept path analysis made. Reports include names and types of used vehicles, vehicle schematics with detailed dimensions, steering wheel turning diagram showing turning angles, turn wheels on stop sections, maximal vehicle steering angle and more. Reports can be exported to PDF and other formats.

Autopath also provides extended vehicle customisation option enabling users to customize available vehicles in libraries provided. Or create completely new vehicles with multiple axles, steering options and unlimited vehicle contour or shape definition.

Autopath provides the option to insert raster Imagery and elevation data (Google Earth Surface data) and Street View capabilities within the CAD drawing to help clients, investors, or the interested public to visualize areas where swept path analysis is taking place.

Combining such data with CAD BIM infrastructural or architectural models offers immersive visualization capabilities and great value analysis. Autopath comes with an extensive list of supported coordinate systems worldwide to enable convenient data insertion.

With the new video-recorder tool, you can easily and very quickly create animations of the swept paths and vehicle movements and instantly share them with your clients for review.

CGS Labs solutions provide extensive BIM data support not limited to CAD platforms in use. 3D roadway, railway or river channel models are generated as detailed 3D solid objects with extended BIM metadata attached to objects, or as multiple surfaces for use with computer guided machines etc..

Aquaterra offers capable Property Manager for adding and changing 3D solids property data, which enables COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) compatibility.

Aquaterra 3D models and attribute data can be exported to IFC files. IFC export format is regularly updated according to buildingSMART International specifications.

Clash detection tool enables designer to search for possible collisions among selected 3D solid objects within the drawing itself thus saving the time to export models and create clash analysis in third party applications outside CAD environment.

The Surface creation tool is included in CGS Labs software to produce a detailed Digital Terrain Model (DTM) based on various surveys or other input data: total station data files, points, break lines, blocks, etc. This offers the possibility to use Aquaterra on plain AutoCAD or BricsCAD. Aquaterra supports also surfaces from Civil 3D and BricsCAD (V20 or newer).

Creation of complex slopes with multiple conditions in cut or fill gives users the capability to cover various design scenarios and geometry requirements for all kind of road projects, from simple forest road design to complex intersection geometry design. Furthermore, creating ponds, parking areas, platforms, road, rail tracks, river channels, and other features is easier and faster with CGS Labs grading functionality.

Channel and river bed 3D model can be created as 3D surface or 3D solid model. 3D surface model can be generated automatically from 3D channel or river bed cross sections definition and terrain model, or it can be built with the grading function. 3D solid model is created on the basis of cross-section areas, with materials and volumes defined as extended data. All solid models, including extended data, can be imported into Autodesk Infraworks, Navisworks and can be used in various BIM workflows.

Aquaterra provides a wide range of advanced alignment, profile geometry design, and editing tools. They include P(V)I design, floating and fixed elements design, alignment design created from the existing polyline, or ultimately creating a best-fit alignment based on existing channel or river bed survey data. A number of alignment labels, reports and data export options give you the flexibility to cover a wide range of user requirements.

Water level lines represent data obtained from hydraulic calculation software (MIKE FLOOD or HEC-RAS). They are displayed relative to the specific alignment in the drawing. To present side objects like channels, dykes, property limits, etc., you can define smart lines in the layout and project them to profile and/or cross section views. The Smart lines functionality is connected with the point’s projection, which offers similar projection options, but dedicated to point objects along any alignment.

Enter 1D, 2D water levels or combined calculations and design new or edit existing channel and river bed cross sections geometry. Add dykes and other objects using the large set of tools available. Recalculate water levels and check geometry changes impact for accurate project evaluation.

Groins are a rigid hydraulic structures built from a bank in rivers that interrupt water flow and limit the movement of sediment. Aquaterra supports design of groins along selected banks as 2D elements with varying gradient values.

Aquaterra calculates material quantity take-off and features a QTO data export tool with custom defined Pay Item (Bill of materials) options. It gives users the possibility to link material defined in the drawing with a material database in cost estimate software, thus supporting digital data transfer and fast cost recalculation when project changes arise.

Mass haul diagram presents a graphical view of the material moved in the proposed design site. Mass haul diagrams help designers and contractors understand where gross material movements occur and compare the economies of alternative designs.

MIKE FLOOD by DHI is an advanced professional flood modeling solution that enables simulation of any flood problem. It can involve rivers, floodplains, flooding in streets, drainage networks, coastal areas, dams, levee and dike breaches, or any combination of these.

Aquaterra’s integrated MIKE FLOOD interface transfers graphical data into MIKE FLOOD where water flow calculations are made. These results are transferred back into Aquaterra where water levels can be displayed in profile and cross section.

MIKE FLOOD 2D results (floodplain lines) export to Aquaterra is also supported for drawing production within the CAD environment.

HEC-RAS is an established software for one-dimensional steady flow and two-dimensional unsteady flow hydraulic calculations.

Aquaterra’s integrated HEC-RAS interface enables the transfer of channel or river geometry from a CAD environment into HEC-RAS where water flow calculations are made. Calculation results can be transferred back into Aquaterra where calculated water levels are displayed in profile and cross sections. Taking into account the results, engineers can now modify existing channel or river topography, using Aquaterra’s advanced cross-section design and editing tools.

Through Aquaterra’s interface, geometry can also be imported directly from HEC-RAS, edited in Aquaterra and sent back to HEC-RAS for further analysis.

BIM (3D solid) model of the infrastructure can be quickly visualized directly into Google Earth. This allows us to present the project in an environment that enables the user to have exceptional visual performances.

CGS Labs solutions provide extensive BIM data support not limited to CAD platforms in use. 3D roadway, railway or river channel models are generated as detailed 3D solid objects with extended BIM metadata attached to objects, or as multiple surfaces for use with computer guided machines etc.

Ferrovia offers capable Property Manager for adding and changing 3D solids property data, which enables COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) compatibility.

Ferrovia 3D models and attribute data can be exported to IFC files. IFC export format is regularly updated according to buildingSMART International specifications.

Clash detection tool enables designer to search for possible collisions among selected 3D solid objects within the drawing itself thus saving the time to export models and create clash analysis in third party applications outside CAD environment.

The Surface creation tool is included in CGS Labs software to produce a detailed Digital Terrain Model (DTM) based on various surveys or other input data: total station data files, points, break lines, blocks, etc. This offers the possibility to use Ferrovia on plain AutoCAD or BricsCAD. Plateia supports also surfaces from Civil 3D and BricsCAD (V20 or newer).

Creation of complex slopes with multiple conditions in cut or fill gives users the capability to cover various design scenarios and geometry requirements for all kind of road projects, from simple forest road design to complex intersection geometry design. Furthermore, creating ponds, parking areas, platforms, road, rail tracks, river channels, and other features is easier and faster with CGS Labs grading functionality.

Ferrovia provides a wide set of advanced alignment, profile geometry design, and editing tools. They include P(V)I design, floating and fixed elements design, parallel alignment design, and alignment design created from the existing polyline, or ultimately creating a best-fit alignment based on existing rail track survey data. Various alignment labeling, reports, and data export options provide the flexibility needed to cover a wide range of user requirements.

Ferrovia supports a number of linear and nonlinear transition curves: Clothoid and a range of cubic parabolas, including; cubic parabola, modified cubic parabola, Czech parabola and Romanian parabola Imbonatatita. Supported nonlinear parabolas include sinusoidal, Cosines, Bloss and S–curve parabola. Transition curves apply uniformly to horizontal transition curves and to cant gradients areas.

In turnout design you can take advantage of automatic turnout insertion, turnout parameter editing, and automatic turnout repositioning when alignment geometry changes apply. Included are various turnout types: straight-line turnouts (non-transformable), curve turnouts, symmetrical, and turnout crossings. Alongside predefined turnout geometry, a turnout catalogue provides users with the ability to edit or add custom geometry turnouts. Turnout reports provide the user with the tools to list turnout parameters and values in turnout tables, either in drawing or in external table files.

Create rail connections interactively between parallel or non-parallel rail tracks in tangent or in curve with the geometry preview option. Having the advantage of using the same or different turnout types for rail connection gives users a wide range of geometry options to fit rail connections within constraint areas and limited design possibilities. Detailed design and editing of vertical connections in profile view add value to the comprehensive yet comfortable use of Ferrovia rail connection tools.

Ferrovia makes it possible to design and edit rail track cross sections in a detailed way with almost no geometry limitations to the final project design. Adding multiple rail tracks to a single cross section gives users control over the geometry between various rail tracks, rail tracks and roads or other infrastructure objects your project requires, and lets you define these areas with great accuracy and detail.

Rail track 3D models can be created as a 3D surface or 3D solid model. 3D rail track surface models can be generated automatically from 3D rail-track cross-section geometry and terrain model, or it can be built with the grading function. The 3D solid model is created based on cross-section areas, where materials and volumes can be defined as extended data. With 3D solid tunnels, bridges and similar objects can be represented as well. Solid objects can be aligned with arcs and transition curves. All solid models, including extended data, can be imported into Autodesk Infraworks, Navisworks and then used in various BIM workflows.

Ferrovia calculates material quantity take-off and features a QTO data export tool with custom defined Pay Item (Bill of Materials) options. It gives users the possibility to link material defined in the drawing with a material database in cost estimate software, thus supporting digital data transfer and fast cost recalculation when project changes arise.