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Readme for Advanced Road Design

2012.03, 2011.18 and 2010.18 This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Advanced Road Design Hot Fix version 2012.03, 2011.18 and 2010.18.

Installation Instructions

Upgrade/Update: This installation is a full version of Advanced Road Design, utilising the .NET programming interface. The update build is available, which will update the program files. The update version relies upon a full build of ARD to already be installed. You do not need to uninstall any previous versions of Advanced Road Design. Your old menu system will be unloaded as part of the design process.

General This release includes all previous updates for the 2010/2011/2012 release. See below for information on previous release version Readme files.

Improved Features The following features have been improved:

ARD Roads

Road long sections now can display textual information on the pipes – the labelling options are however controlled from the Cross Section Plot settings -> Select Tab.

A comments field has been added in the Variations to enable grouping of variations.

ARD Pipes

There are extra items available in the drainage reports – nominal diameter, internal diameter and outer diameter.

Resolved Issues This installation includes resolution to a number of issues including: ARD Roads

Creating a new road and immediately adding extra sections does not result in a crash

Various start-up and license checking issues have been resolved

The issue with the Change Alignment Descriptors form displaying and not closing has been resolved

A quirk in Setout has been resolved – if certain chainage ranges and codes were set, the sampled sections for the Road were altered and a Resample was required to repair the problem

Changing between drawings with the Design Data form or Vertical grading Editor window or Cross Section window being open has been resolved – these windows auto close when switching drawings

An issue with adding extra codes to display in the cross section plotting and not being able to remove the codes has been resolved

Issues running Build Models have been resolved – this command will now create a surface from the model strings.

ARD Pipes

Box sections now show as rectangles on long and cross section plots – previously these displayed as ellipses in all views and in plot outputs

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2012.02, 2011.17 and 2010.17 This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Advanced Road Design Hot Fix version 2012.02, 2011.17 and 2010.17.


This is an update to ARD 2012.02, 2011.17 and 2010.17. These versions should be installed before running this update hot fix

General This release is an update to ARD 2012.02, 2011.17 and 2010.17.


ARD Roads

High/Low points are now dynamically labelled on the VGE with chainage and level information.


Datum control for Long Sections has been fixed.

NSW Super tables are able to be applied

ARD Pipes

Pick boxes for pit and pipe types were not auto populating – this has been fixed. Users can now open any create/edit form for pipes and pits and immediately select pipe/pit types

When creating pits, the option to assign the pit to the Road was greyed out – this has been fixed

House connection constraints are now applied to Sewer pipe networks and are displayed on the Vertical Grading Editor window

Some issued with applying user specific datum controls on pipe long sections has been addressed.

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2012.01, 2011.16 and 2010.16 This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Advanced Road Design version 2012.01, 2011.16 and 2010.16.


Upgrade/Update: This installation is a new version of Advanced Road Design, utilising the .NET programming interface. You do not need to uninstall any previous versions of Advanced Road Design. Your old menu system will be unloaded as part of the design process.

Licensing Information

ARD is now installed and licensed using the Reprise Licensing System – please refer to Appendix 1 at the end of this document for information about this licensing system, as well as the Network Installation Guide that is available when you start the installation process using the CD.

General This release includes all previous updates for the 2010/2011/2012 release. See below for information on previous release version Readme files.

ARD Data and Settings Files Conversion – VBA Customers

ARD 2011 .NET software updates your current project data, as well as the program settings. Please see Appendix 2 below for more information on this.

New Features The following new features are included in this release:

Data Sharing. Two new commands are included to allow users to readily share Road and Pipe data between projects. Shared data is „read only‟ to the receiver of the data. Users can click to update the data if/when it is changed by the data creator. Commands are located in the Menu, Toolbar and Ribbon. Ribbon Access: General Tab > Data Sharing Panel. Commands are:

o Share Data: this allows pushing of Roads and Pipes data from teh current drawing into a user defined location – this becomes a Shared Folder

o Read Data Share: this allows Roads and/or Pipes data to be read from a Shared Folder location – users pick the Shared Folder and the drawing/s in the Shared Folder from which to reference data.


Help Systems

The Roads Help, Pipes Help and General Help Systems have all been updated to fully reflect the latest features and behaviours of the software.

Roads help now has two command listings – one matches the Ribbon Panel groupings and one is an A-Z command listing

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ARD Roads

Design Constraint – display and updating o Design constraints now display on the VGE and Cross Section windows o Design constraints dynamically update as changes are made o Click on the Update or Refresh buttons on the VGE if design constraints do

not dynamically redraw

ARD Pipes

Speed improvements have been made when creating catchments – in large data sets there could be a delay between creating catchments and turning to AutoCAD control

When Trench Volumes are output, a .csv file is created in the –Data folder (inside the AdvRoads-10 folder) including the name of the network selected


When using Assign Plotting Layers, the Set Default buttons didn‟t work – they are now operational again

Design Constraints o In certain situations the Design Constraints displayed information for incorrect

chainages on the Cross Section Windows – this has been resolved.

Setout removes extra sampling when plotting from the VGE – resolved

When you rebuild a surface from the VGE, all breaklines outputted from the previous surface output is completely removed.

Multi Section Batters: a bug with Copy Surface has been resolved

A problem with plotting multiple Strings that had different start chainages on a long section has been resolved

Auto Create Corridor ran slowly or exceeded the computer memory on larger jobs. This has been addressed and users should be able to generate a Civil 3d corridor from large data sets.

A number of „unable to calculate chainage‟ errors have been addressed.

Civil 3D Alignment Superelevation can now be applied to selected codes on the ARD cross sections

Adding in Conditional Templates prevented users from editing Templates – this has been addressed.

ARD Pipes

HGL Calculations at Pits when Partial Pipe Water Flow is selected o ARD uses Hazel‟s formula to calculate pit loss coefficients, with the

coefficients being based on flows into the pit. When Partial Pipe Water levels was selected for the top of HGL levels, the partial flow velocity was used to calculate pit losses. This resulted in excessive pit losses. The pit loss is now calculated based on full pipe flow at the pit

When creating a service obstruction from a 3D polylines, selecting to adopt the Obvert level from the vertices of the 3D polyline resulted in these elevations being applied to the invert – this has been addressed

Speed issues when applying catchments on large data sets has been addressed

Known Issues The following is a list of known issues with the software ARD Roads

First opening of the Design Data form may be slow on 64bit machines

The legacy Super Tables (used extensively in NSW) are not able to be applied

The Vertical Grading Editor – Colour Control file includes a parameter to set the Text Size – this is not yet enabled. Use the VGE Settings form to control text sizes.

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Multiple subgrade layers that match to surface is currently not supported – only the last layer can be set to „match to surface‟

ARD Pipes

Manually setting Datums for each pipe is not implemented

If there is zero flow in a pipe then the Mannings capacity will not be displayed on the long section plot

The Edit Pipe slope command will show the current pipe GRADE, even if the user has selected to use slopes for the pipe calculations. The value will however be correctly applied based on the user setting of slope or grade. This is a display/recall issue only.

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2012.00 This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Advanced Road Design version 2012 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012


You do not need to uninstall any previous versions of Advanced Road Design. Your old menu system will be unloaded as part of the design process.


New Users

For standalone installations, the licensing system will be installed automatically and is activated when an Advanced Road Design command is run. The Reprise Licensing System is used for managing licenses. For network installations, please refer to the installation guide and follow instructions to install and active the licensing system on the selected server.

New Users


General This release includes all previous updates for the 2011 release. See below for information on previous release version Readme files.

ARD Data and Settings Files Conversion – Existing Customers


ARD Settings File RELOCATION

In line with our company name change, this installation will install (by default) the Settings folder (also known as the Common folder) into the following locations: Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ CSS\ARD\Common Windows 7 or Vista: C:\ProgramData\CSS\ARD\Common

Previous Installations – Settings Files Copied Over

If users have elected to leave their settings in the default settings location, this installation will copy the entire contents of the Settings (Common) folder, including subdirectories, to the above Settings location. If users have manually adjusted the location of the Settings Path, it will be required to use the Advanced Road Command Set Settings Path to re-establish the location of the settings after install.

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2010.15 and 2011.15 This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of Advanced Road Design version 2010.15 and 2011.15.





General This release includes all previous updates for the 2011 release. See below for information on previous release version Readme files. ARD2010.14 and ARD2011.14 is now available for Civil 3D 2011 64bit and 32bit machines and for Civil 3D 2010 32bit machines.




ARD Pipes

You can now toggle on for a pit to be a pressure pit, allowing the HGL to be above the surface

The most upstream pits in each branch of a network now do not insert bypass pit flows into the pipe. Previously a conservative design approach was adopted by putting all catchment flow through the pipe, even if the pit inlet capacity was insufficient for the catchment inflow

Resolved Issues ARD Roads

Deleting items in the ARD Super Tables o A problem deleting a selected row in the ARD Super Tables form has been

fixed

Plotting o A problem with plotting certain pipe section geometry on the long section has

been resolved ARD Pipes

HGL Plot from DRAINS o The long section plot was not storing the HGL from Drains, in the previous

ARD release. This has been rectified.

Long Section Plotting – Pit levels

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o An incorrect representation of pit lid levels has been resolved. Previously the pit levels were set to the surface regardless of the Pit property settings

Known Issues The following is a list of known issues with the software File Conversions and working with files containing long file paths

Windows has a limit of 260 characters when selecting files (and their paths) for copying or editing.

ARD now includes some error trapping to advise if file paths are too long ARD Roads First opening of the Design Data form may be slow on some computers


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Speed o Speed of processing over a network has been improved by between 15 and

250 times, depending on the function being executed o Road computations have been optimised to improve performance opening a

road in the VGE and recomputing road sections

ARD Pipes

Time of Concentration Calculations – Specified Overland Flow Roughness o Users can now overtype an overland flow roughness if required.

Resolved Issues ARD Roads

Extend Long section Plot Command o An issue with extending the long section plot has been resolved and will

perform as expected

VGE – creating and storing IP‟s o We have resolved a bug in the Civil 3D API that resulted in IP‟s being deleted

in certain alignment geometric conditions

Cross Section Plotting of Named Surfaces

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o A bug when plotting Names Surfaces has been resolved

Model Manager o The trim option when creating a model from Model Manager has been

reinstated. ARD Pipes

Sag Pit Depths o In certain situations the sag pit depths were not displayed – this has been

resolved

Long Section Plotting – Pit levels o An incorrect representation of pit lid levels has been resolved. Previously the

pit levels were set to the surface regardless of the Pit property settings

ARD General

An issue with selecting a new Data folder has been resolved. Previously, the user needed to create a .txt file in order to set a new location.


First opening of the Design Data form may be slow on some computers


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ARD Roads

Speed o Speed has been improved for opening and working with VGE windows,

particularly for larger jobs

ARD Create Corridor o This command has been reinstated o It is now easier to create the subassembly components for the corridor o See below for instructions on using the reinstated Corridor output command

The Use Other Roads option when creating/resampling an ARD object now supports sampling of multiple other roads/strings

ARD Pipes

When setting up plotting of the HGL details you can now set it to show the „Minor‟ or Major storm – previously the user had to set a storm ARI.

Plotting outputs are now set to output to Index Colours instead of RGB colours

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Resolved Issues This installation includes resolution to a number of issues including: Licensing

An issue with the software crashing if the user didn‟t authorize the software has been resolved. Now ARD simply issues warning messages and stops, giving the user back control of Civil 3D

ARD Roads

Recognising new alignments o In the previous versions, ARD didn‟t allow creation of Roads/Strings from

new alignments created by the user. The user needed to close and reopen the drawing in order for ARD to read in these alignments for use. This issue has been resolved

Using the Use Points option when creating/resampling a ARD Object o Previously, the user was unable to select a Point Group in order to sample

and create sections based on points. This issue has been resolved.

NSW Super o This command has been reinstated

Civil 3D Alignment Super o This command has been reinstated

ARD Corridor Output o This command has been reinstated. Please see below for instructions on its

use ARD Pipes

Surface Output Layer o The surface output layer is now set in the Active Drawing Settings –

previously the default layer prefix was 0

Pipe Flows in Reports – Setting the ARI o An issue with the plot reports not displaying the ARI set by the user has been

addressed

Catchments o An issue with duplicate catchments has been resolved

ARD General

An issue with selecting a new Data folder has been resolved. Previously, the user needed to create a .txt file in order to set a new location.


First opening of the Design Data form may be slow in some projects


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Using the Auto Create Corridor Command To use the Auto Create Corridor command there are three setup items to be completed:

1. The ARD subassembly (named cadappsBasicLane) must be imported into Civil 3D 2. The drawing must contain an assembly named CORRIDOR-EZY and have the above

subassembly applied to the left and right sides of the assembly marker 3. The Create Corridor Command Settings must either be set to match the sampling of

ARD or be set to not add any corridor sampling

Step 1 - Add the ARD Subassembly

1. Display the Tool Palettes and click on the palette you would like the ARD subassembly added to.

2. From the Ribbon, click on Insert Tab > Import Panel Slideout > Import Subassemblies

3. Click on the icon and browse to the ARD Settings Folder. This is (by default) located at the following locations:

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\CADApps\ARD\Common\Common-10 Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\CADApps\ARD\Common\Common-10

Note: If you have set the location of the Settings folder yourself, click on the General Tab > Open Settings Folder and review the settings location

4. Select the file ARD-Corridor.pkt file 5. Click OK to import the subassembly to the tool palette – a new

subassembly named cadappsBasicLane will now be added to the tool palette

Step 2 – Create an Assembly

6. In the drawing where you have created your road network, from the Ribbon, click Home Tab > Create Design Panel > Assembly Dropdown > Create Assembly

7. Name the assembly CORRIDOR-EZY 8. From the Tool Palette, click on cadappsBasicLane and add this assembly to the left

and right sides of the CORRIDOR-EZY assembly End result should be as follows:

Note: You can drag and drop this complete assembly into the Tool Palette for re-use on any drawing.

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Step 3 – Control the Create Corridor Command Settings

9. Click on the Settings tab of the Civil 3D Toolspace. 10. Expand Corridor, then Command, then right click on the

Create Corridor Command Settings and select Edit Command Settings...

11. Expand the Assembly Insertion Defaults and set the Frequency options to 10000 and set all Points options to False

12. Click OK to apply these settings controls and exit

Step 4 – Make the Corridor

From the Ribbon Click on RoadsTab > Modelling Panel > Auto Create Corridor

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New Features The following new features are included in this release:

Cross Section View Windows now display all ARD Pipes that are crossing or parallel to a cross section. From the Cross Section View window, click on the Settings button and turn on to display pipes. This is a dynamic link, so editing the pipe vertical gradings will update the cross section windows

Default colour settings can be established for the Vertical Grading Editor window and the Build Models window. These are set in the Active/Global Drawing Settings.


ARD Roads

Design Constraint – display and updating o Design constraints now display on the VGE and Cross Section windows o Design constraints dynamically update as changes are made o Click on the Update or Refresh buttons on the VGE if design constraints do

not dynamically redraw

ARD Pipes

When a pit is created, it now stores the [Design Surface] as the surface to obtain top of pit levels from. If you go into the Active Drawing Settings and change the Design

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Surrface after creating a pit, ARD no longer references the previously set Design Surface for created pits.

Pipes and pits will now check for levels on both the Design Surface and Existing Surface nominated. Previously, levels for the pit lid were only checked against the Design Surface. Pipe cover was calculated against the Design Surface. Now, if the Design Surface does not extend where a pit or pipe is located, that pit or pipe will look at and use the Natural Surface levels.

The Export to Drains utility now uniquely names the pits, pipes, catchments and bypasses at the time of export to Watercom Drains. Previously, ARD provided duplicate names for different elements going across to Watercom Drains, and the user was forced to rename these elements.

Speed improvements have been made in ARD Pipes


Display Surface Model as 3D Faces o An issue preventing you from selecting a 3D mesh file has now been

resolved.

Design Constraints o In certain situations the Design Constraints could display incorrect reference

point levels. This has been fixed

Point Not on Entity Errors o In certain data sets, an error message reading „Point Not On Entity‟ could

occur. These errors have been found and corrected.

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A bug with ARD creating and assigning layers has been resolved


First opening of the Design Data form may be slow in some projects


The functionality to export a Civil 3D corridor from ARD is not yet implemented in this version. Neither the Add CADApps Catalogue nor the Auto Create Corridor commands are implemented at this time

The Alignment Superelevation command in the Design Data form does not import the Civil 3D alignment superelevation – this is functionality yet to be implemented


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Readme for Advanced Road Design 2011.11 This readme contains important information regarding the installation and use of the Advanced Road Design 2011.11.





General This release contains a minor bug fix to long section plotting.

Resolved Issues This installation includes resolution to the following issue.

Long Section Plotting resulting in an “Unable to Calculate Chainage” error.

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General This release includes all previous updates for the 2011 release. See below for information on previous release version Readme files. ARD2011.10 is now available for Civil 3D 2011 64bit and 32bit machines.



New Features The following new features are included in this release ARD Vertical Grading Editor Window – Colour Control

Users can now control the colour of text and linework displayed in the Vertical Grading Editor Windows. A new command has been added in the Ribbon: Roads Tab Settings Panel Settings Slideout Set Vertical Grading Window Colours This command will enable the setting of colours in the Vertical Grading Editor Windows. Items are related to the display as follows:

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Click on Save As to save a style of colours, and click on Load Style to load a colour palette. Note: Users can pre-set the VGE colours in the Active Drawing Settings and Global Drawing Settings forms, from the Vertical Grading Editor tab.


ARD Roads

Build Models – Default Colour Control o Users can now set the default colours to display in the Build Models form. o Default models can be set in the Active Drawing Settings – Modelling tab

ARD Roads

Sag pit calculations when attached to a Road. The behaviour of sag pits has been adjusted as follows

o Sag pit attached to a Road: sag pit depth of flow is computed. If the depth is less than the gutter flow depth, no bypass is applied and all flow enters the pit. If the depth if greater than the gutter depth, depth is set to gutter top and flow calculated into the pit to the gutter top. All other flow considered bypass

o Sag pit not attached to a Road: computes the depth to have the inflow and assumes no bypass

Resolved Issues This installation includes resolution to a number of issues including: Network – License Release

An issue with Settings not being kept has been resolved. For certain projects, the ARD settings were not being stored and default software values were being applied. The settings values are now being correctly stored for all projects.

ARD Roads

Flickering UCS Icon o An issue with a flickering screen when using the VGE, Cross Section

windows or Design Data form has been addressed.

Frozen Layers o An issue with the layer AR-Marker being un-frozen has been resolved.

Previously, if this layer was frozen the software would remove Templates from both the public and local libraries

Plotting

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o Using the Plot to File option for Long and Cross plotting now works as expected. Previously, plotting long and cross sections to file either resulted in no external drawing files being created, or one drawing file created with multiple overlapping sheets.

o Setting layers using the AutoCAD layer index colours is now carried through into the outputs – previously it would output the RGB colour equivalent.

o Pipe networks are now able to be displayed on the long and cross section plots

Setting ARD Colours o If an ARD colour is set by selecting an AutoCAD Index colour, this will be

used in the outputted linework in the drawing. Previously the software used RGB colours for all outputs to the drawing

Templates – creating a kerb from the CL of a template resulted in an error. This has been addressed and users can now create kerb sections directly off the CL

Vertical Grading Editor o An issue where clicking on Create Surface created copies of the surface and

generated an error message have been resolved.

Design Data Form o In some geometric conditions, the Variation of „Set Code Levels to Match

Surface‟ did not adopt the offset of a selected alignment at all cross sections. This issue has been resolved.

o Batter Overrides Batter overrides now behave as per previous versions. If a cut or fill

slope parameter is left blank, ARD will not apply a batter unless a maximum batter offset alignment is specified. Previously, 0 needed to be typed into the cut or fill fields for this behaviour to occur

o Design Constraints were not displayed in the Vertical Grading Editor window. Users can now select a colour for display of the constraints and they are included on the Vertical Grading Editor window. Special Note: After adding Design Constraints users will need to either close and reopen the VGE window, or click on the Update Display button on the VGE window to force the Design Constraint/s to display

Plot Cross Sections o Section by Feature Line has been reinstated for cross section plotting

Cross Section Viewer Window o Slope values are now reported as 1:X when the slope is greater than 10%,

and lines with 0.0 as the end offset are given the correct slope/position

Model Builder o An issue with the display of linework for large co-ordinate drawing files has

been resolved.

ARD Pipes

A number of improvements listed in the ARD 2011.01 release were not fully implemented – these have now been fully implemented.

Pipes are now displayed on the Road Cross Sections and Long Sections

A bug with calculation of pit bypasses has been resolved – previously sag pit calculations were not allowing for bypass from the pit

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First opening of the Design Data form is slow


The Object Projection for cross section windows does not currently support the display of pipe networks.


The Create Roundabout tool does not model correctly using Auto Model – users will need to use Model Manager to include the Roundabout Strings in a surface model



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Users MUST ensure that BOTH the Design Surface and Natural Surface being used for the pit/pipe level calculations extend across ALL pipes and pits in the network. Error messages will display if this EITHER surface levels cannot be assigned to any pipe or pit in the network.

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Upgrade/Update: This installation is a new version of Advanced Road Design, version 2011 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 64 BIT. You do not need to uninstall any previous versions of Advanced Road Design. The installation will use the common folder from previously installed ARD 2010 installation/s.

Licensing

New Licensing System: A new licensing system has been included for this product release. You must activate this software using your current valid license key in order to use it. Note: The license keys you used for previous versions of ARD are not usable with Advanced Road Design 2011. Your organisation will be issued with new license keys for the product, they can be used when authorising all versions of ARD 2011.

Standalone Installations: After installing the software, start AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and run an ARD command you will receive a message that the software is not licensed and a prompt to supply your license key. Input your license key for software authorisation to occur. The license authorisation process occurs automatically on your computer – file transfer and activation occurs across the web and the license is recorded on our license server. Note: You must have an internet connection in order to license this software – if you are unable to obtain an internet connection please email us at [email protected]. Please consult the Installation Guide for additional information on how to activate a Standalone license of Advanced Road Design. Network Installations: Network licensing is reliant on two components: the application (Advanced Road Design) and the license server. It is advised that you set up the license server software and obtain a software license for the server prior to installing Advanced Road Design onto any workstations. Please consult the Installation Guide for additional information on how to set up a floating network license for Advanced Road Design.

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General

THIS IS AN AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D 2011 64 BIT RELEASE This build has been specifically developed to provide a software solution for

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 64 bit customers.

All forms have been updated for the new .net programming environment. Some minor interface changes will be evident in this release, however the intention has been to match existing software functionality and presentation as closely as possible.

ARD Data and Settings Files Conversion –

Existing Customers ARD 2011.01 will make a copy of your current settings folder and the previous ARD Data for a project in the data format supported by ARD 2011.01. Your current project data can still be opened and edited using ARD 2010 (or previous), however all designs and edits made with ARD 2011.01 will occur in the data copy. ARD Settings Folder Conversion

The file format for many of the Settings files has changed, in preparation for enabling inclusion of the ARD settings inside the drawing file. The settings conversion process will occur automatically when you open an existing or start a new project. ARD 2011.01 will read the existing Common folder files and create a SUB FOLDER inside your current settings folder called Common-10 with the converted settings files it requires.

Note: Your current settings files will continue to be used for ARD 2010 and earlier versions.

ARD Data Conversion

When you open a current ARD project in ARD 2011.01 a message will display advising that the data is to be converted. The current data and folder structure will be unchanged. A copy of the data will be converted and placed in a folder named AdvRoads-10 and will be located in the same location as the current AdvRoads folder:

Note: Your current data files will continue to be used for ARD 2010 and earlier versions

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New Features The following new features are included in this release ARD Roads

Multiple, detachable cross section windows Users can now show many cross section windows for multiple roads, and can arrange them as desired on screen. All cross section windows will update as changes are made to the road long section or cross sections and operate at floating (modeless) windows. This functionality replaces the attached cross section that displayed with the Vertical Grading Editor. Middle mouse button provides zoom and pan control.

Commands include:

Open Cross Section Window

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Select Panel>Open Cross Section. Menu: Roads>Select/Open/Edit>Open Cross Section Window

This command allows the user to select an ARD Object (Road, String, Kerb Return, Cul-de-sac, Knuckle) and chainage and to display a cross section window for that ARD object and for the selected chainage.

Tile Cross Section Windows

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Select Panel>Open Cross Section Window Dropdown>Tile Cross Section. Menu: Roads>Select/Open/Edit>Tile Cross Section Window

This command sorts and presents the open cross section windows in a tiled arrangement, starting from the top left and sorting by ARD Object Name (Road, String, Cul-de-sac, etc) then Chainage. Order is top to bottom, then left to right

Open Cross Section Window

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Select Panel>Open Cross Section Window Dropdown>Close Cross Section Windows. Menu: Roads>Select/Open/Edit>Close Cross Section Window

This command closes all open Cross Section Windows

Cross Section Window Defaults

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Settings Panel Slideout>Cross Section Window Defaults Menu: Roads>Settings>Cross Section Window – Default View Settings

This command allows the user to establish what textual information is displayed when a cross section window is opened.

Cross Section Window Object Display

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Settings Panel Slideout>Cross Section Window Object Display Menu: Roads>Settings>Cross Section Window – Default Objects to Display

This command allows the user to display extra information in the cross section windows including extra surfaces, alignments, ARD Objects and pipe networks This command is also accessible from any open Cross Section Window

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Build Models A new Model Manager interface has been developed. Users can now create models using an interactive display – simply tick on/off the ARD Objects to include, then graphically select and edit portions of each Object to remove selected Codes. All Roads and Codes that are included in the model are highlighted, and trimmed/excluded Codes are greyed out. Edits are stored in a list and can be readily edited and viewed in the interactive display. You are able to save copies of the models and build surfaces in the drawing.

Build Models

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Modelling Panel>Auto Model Dropdown>Build Models. Menu: Roads>Outputs>Build Models

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Open Vertical Grading Windows. Previously this was achieved via the Select and Open the Vertical Grading Editor command.

Open Vertical Grading Window

Ribbon: ARD Roads>Select Panel>Open Vertical Grading. Menu: Roads>Select/Open/Edit>Open Vertical Grading Editor Window

o Command buttons have been revamped to open the following design windows:

Template Editor Cross Section Window Design Data Form

o The underlying graphics engine has been improved

Design Data Form o The design data form is now Modeless, so as changes are made in this

window all open Cross Section Windows will update. o The form has been revamped to include icons for many of the command

buttons o A Cross Section Synchronise button is included to do the following:

Open two Cross Section Windows that are set to react to the Start Chainage and End Chainage values for any entry in the design data form being edited

Whenever pressed, update the chainages of these two cross section windows to match the Start/End chainage of the current entry being edited.

o Command buttons have been included to open the following design windows Vertical Grading Editor Cross Section Window Template Editor

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Kerb flow widths and depths were previously calculated using the parameter of „Road Code for Top of Drainage Pit‟ in the settings. There is now an extra field for the user to specify a separate code for the software to use in calculating the cross section to calculate kerb flow widths and depths

Blockage factor calculations have been improved. Previously, % blockage was applied to the inflow only, leading to inconsistent results in low flow situations. Now, the % blockage is applied to both the inflow capacity and gutter flow to better represent the pit performance when partially blocked

The Pit Tables tab of the Pipes Settings form now includes an import function to read in the gutter flow/inflow values from a file. The file format needs to be space or tab delimited, with two fields of information per row (gutter flow/flow depth inflow). This will facilitate easier transfer of data from Excel spreadsheets – save to a space/tab delimited file and import that file.

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Resolved Issues This installation resolves a number of bugs & issues, including: 64 Bit Support

This build is for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 customers running the software on a 64 bit computer. ARD has been reconfigured to operate in a 64 bit environment and without use of the Visual Basic (VBA) programming environment.

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An issue with incorrect section volume information on long sections has been resolved. Previously, the section volume information was provided based on all Road sections, instead of the road sections used for plotting

An issue with deleting legacy strings has been resolved. Previously, if a user set up legacy string controls and then removed the string, the software would not open the Road with the broken reference

Masking on cross sections has been re-enabled. Previously the masking did not apply during cross section plotting.

The Use Points command on the Add/Edit Roads form may not include the last point in a selected point group in some instances

In certain circumstances the text rounding on the cross section chainage can remove the trailing zeros to two decimal places, but display the third decimal place. This may occur for chainages that are within 6mm of a whole number

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The blockage calculations have been adjusted to address concerns with the method of calculation. Previously, when a blockage factor was applied, this % factor was used to reduce the inflow capacity only. This results in immediate pit bypass occurring. The new calculation method applied the blockage reduction factor to both the flow to pit and inflow capacity

Some issues with incorrect bypass calculations have been resolved. There was an error summing up multiply split bypasses

An issue with pits not finding road cross sections has been resolved.

After importing changes from Watercom DRAINS users can now show this information on the long sections. Previously the software replaced the DRAINS outputs with the software‟s hydrology calculations

ARD Pipes expected a certain layer to exist in the ARD Layer List – this has been resolved

An issue with plotting parallel/crossing pipes on the long sections has been resolved. Previously, if the user plotted the long section downstream then the pipes did not display correctly on the long section.

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The Create Roundabout tool does not model correctly using Auto Model – users will need to use Model Manager to include the Roundabout Strings in a surface model


On some machines, a lag in the graphics can be experienced on larger jobs with multiple alignment controls – this is due to a recurrent drawing refresh in AutoCAD. Users can speed up the graphics update by turning off the UCS icon – type UCSICON at the command line and type Off

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Users MUST ensure that BOTH the Design Surface and Natural Surface being used for the pit/pipe level calculations extend across ALL pipes and pits in the network. Error messages will display if this EITHER surface levels cannot be assigned to any pipe or pit in the network.

Retired Commands The following is a list of commands that have not been brought forward into the 2011.01 release:

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Draw Bus/Parking Bay Alignments o This command has been superseded by Civil 3D Offset Alignments – refer to

the Civil 3D alignment documentation for more information on using Offset Alignments for bus/parking bay alignments

Create/Edit Subgrades and Datums o These tools have been abandoned. Users can still apply these subgrade

templates, but will not be able to create these subgrade types or edit ones that have been created

o Users are encouraged to use the subgrade tools available via the Create/Edit Section command

Select and Open the Vertical Grading Editor o Superseded by the Open Vertical Grading Window command. Functionality

carried across

Vertical Grading Editor o Retired in favour of the Open Vertical Grading Window command.

Design Data Form o Retired in favour of the Select and Open the Design Data Form command.

Variations o Superelevation of the subgrade has been removed – this is unused for the

current subgrade functionality o Copy Existing Surface – removed

Drainage

This has been superseded by ARD Pipes and is not currently being carried forward into this release

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Sewer

This has been superseded by ARD Pipes and is not currently being carried forward into this release.

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Appendix 1 New Licensing System: A new licensing system has been included for this product release. You must activate this software using your current valid license key in order to use it. Note: The license keys you used for previous versions of ARD are not usable with Advanced Road Design 2011. Your organisation will be issued with new license keys for the product, they can be used when authorising all versions of ARD 2011.

Standalone Installations: After installing the software, start AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and run an ARD command you will receive a message that the software is not licensed and a prompt to supply your license key. Input your license key for software authorisation to occur. The license authorisation process occurs automatically on your computer – file transfer and activation occurs across the web and the license is recorded on our license server. Note: You must have an internet connection in order to license this software – if you are unable to obtain an internet connection please email us at [email protected]. Please consult the Installation Guide for additional information on how to activate a Standalone license of Advanced Road Design. Network Installations: Network licensing is reliant on two components: the application (Advanced Road Design) and the license server. It is advised that you set up the license server software and obtain a software license for the server prior to installing Advanced Road Design onto any workstations. Please consult the Installation Guide for additional information on how to set up a floating network license for Advanced Road Design.

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Appendix 2

ARD Data and Settings Files Conversion –

Existing Customers ARD 2011 .NET software updates your current project data, as well as the program settings. Please see Appendix 2 below for more information on this. ARD 2011.01 will make a copy of your current settings folder and the previous ARD Data for a project in the data format supported by ARD 2011.01. Your current project data can still be opened and edited using ARD 2010 (or previous), however all designs and edits made with ARD 2011.01 will occur in the data copy. ARD Settings Folder Conversion

The file format for many of the Settings files has changed, in preparation for enabling inclusion of the ARD settings inside the drawing file. The settings conversion process will occur automatically when you open an existing or start a new project. ARD 2011.01 will read the existing Common folder files and create a SUB FOLDER inside your current settings folder called Common-10 with the converted settings files it requires.

Note: Your current settings files will continue to be used for ARD 2010 and earlier versions.

ARD Data Conversion

When you open a current ARD project in ARD 2011.01 a message will display advising that the data is to be converted. The current data and folder structure will be unchanged. A copy of the data will be converted and placed in a folder named AdvRoads-10 and will be located in the same location as the current AdvRoads folder:

Note: Your current data files will continue to be used for ARD 2010 and earlier versions

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