Topography, Land Development and Volume Calculations

ZWCAD Civil Standard package adds to the Survey package a full set of features for handling contour lines and land development calculations. Work is made simple from field data input and production of area maps, to the successful execution of the final set out stage.

• Automatic creation and processing of contour lines
• Advanced and automatic solutions for handling open and closed breaklines
• Multiple presentation formats for breaklines on the drawing
• Creation of quick ground sections between any two points
• Calculation of quantities between layers and their presentation in either earthworks grid, triangles grid, cross sections or division into lots
• Detailed quantities report production
• Wide range of solutions for handling planes (lots) and their side-slopes
• Drawing of zero line and earthworks contour lines

ZWCAD Civil-Standard Features:

• Creation and processing of contour lines including automatic elevation labeling (in uphill direction) and an option to complete the elevation labeling in any desired location. More options include division into layers – automatic or according to user selection, definition of contour lines borders in numerous fashions – by automatic borders reduction, definition of minimum distance for interpolation or defining a border according to a border-line.
• Processing and creation of breaklines throughout a dynamic changing of the contour lines during the lines processing, export of the lines to a separate file, separation to open breaklines, or breaklines defining areas not for calculation (structures etc.), presentation of breaklines in multiple forms (cliff, slope) etc.
• Working with 3D model displaying the model’s perspective, working with both existing and design models simultaneously, instant display of existing or designed calculated elevation at any location by a mouse click.
• Creation of quick ground sections between any two given points including existing status, designed status and a data table. Option for receiving sections in any desired scale to the length and to the height.
• Earthworks computations between existing and designed levels while receiving the data straight from the measuring tool and/or designed points or contour lines, receipt of computations in a detailed square or triangle grid display, including existing or designed elevation and heights intervals in any corner of the grid. All quantity calculations will be accompanied by detailed reports that show the computation method and are capable of being printed directly to a printer, be exported to Microsoft Excel or be displayed as part of the drawing.
• Designing in planes (lots) all while defining the planes borders and their elevations – slopes design in relation to fill and cut, option for defining multiple slopes for the same plane, computation of Earthworks, and drawing of designed contour lines in planes, receipt of an earthworks balance grid including a detailed report and earthworks quantities for each section of the grid.
• Drawing of zero line and earthworks contour lines for both planes design and computation of earthworks between layers. The tools above, along with the features in CivilCAD 10-Survey, turn CivilCAD 10-Standard to the most attractive design software in the market today, and the only one to match market standards set by authorities (municipalities) and clients worldwide.

Roads Construction, Design and Earthworks Calculations

ZWCAD Civil Roads allows roads planning and design, earthworks design and calculation, and all-inclusive surveying and treatment of upper and underground infrastructure. The software combines powerful design options, accurate and high-speed results, and supreme usability setting new standards for roads engineers worldwide.
Roads contractors, earthworks and land development contractors which are using the software, acknowledge ZWCAD Civil Roads as their primary tool for getting the job done.

ZWCAD Civil Roads Features:
Horizontal and Vertical Alignment Design

• Changes made to certain segments of the road’s alignment geometry are reflected in the vertical alignment
• Automatic highlight of the cut-fill transition point in horizontal alignment
• Sub layers associated with existing, structure and design layers are differentiated and displayed according to the defined material and thickness
• Unique and advanced visibility evaluation mechanism with export and reporting capabilities
• Ability to attach a ditch to an offset reference-line in the cross section
• Automatic alert and delete mechanism of an overlapping area between two topography surfaces
• Ability to automatically create frequent backups of the project revisions with quick restore capabilities
• Ability to extend existing road design using automatically obtainable parameters
• Automatic road segments selection
• Visual indication of cut-fill minimum and maximum extents
• Rapid and accurate geometric calculations along road
• Complete horizontal alignment design set of tools including curves transition of clothoids or cubic-parabola

Powerful Cross Section Design

• Detailed underground and upper ground utilities display in cross sections
• Layers information can be separated to support authorities standards
• Cross section includes sub layers associated with existing, structure and design primary layers
• Side ditches and gutters definition according to cut, fill or in-between situations
• Automatic height based side slopes cut or fill definition
• Automatic emphasize of parallel and intersecting roads levels
• Automatic side berms design
• Ability to define super elevation per cross section segment
• Ability to accurately place blocks in cross sections

Advanced Design Features

• New– innovative junctions design including typical sections, islands, roundabouts and detailed reports.
• New– define bridges and tunnels in the design including earthworks volumes calculations and reports.
• New– unique and advanced visibility evaluation mechanism with export and reporting capabilities
• Automatic alert and delete mechanism of an overlapping area between two topography surfaces
• Ability to automatically create frequent backups of the project revisions with quick restore capabilities
• Load and save centerline’s data in LandXML format
• Advanced retaining walls design module
• Complex urban roads design using extract module
• Comprehensive underground infrastructure information tool
• Intelligent and balanced earthworks calculations per layer
• Simulate actual driving in 3D on the designed road using Civil Simulate
• All road aspects are seamlessly integrated for automatic updates
• Automatic cross section recognition of roadside plots

Underground Infrastructure Solution for Water Engineering

ZWCAD Civil Pipes includes complete set of tools for infrastructure pipelines layout planning including water, sewage, and drainage systems, oil, gas, and cables. Supporting both design and surveying aspects of upper and underground infrastructures, ZWCAD Civil Pipes offers limitless design capabilities.
ZWCAD Civil Pipes intuitive task-based interface supplies the engineer with unique set of tools to easily handle design phases distinctiveness.

CivilCAD 10-Pipes Features:
Pipeline Layout Design

• Pipelines alignment and layout tools
• Display the pipeline’s name near the manhole
• Ability to locate in the layout a crossing point between pipelines chosen from Crossing window
• Pipelines alignment and layout tools
• Actual size manholes, pillars and pipes display in both layout and section design
• Layout extraction from drawings
• Crossing underground infrastructure adjustment

Detailed Section Design:

• Receptors Invert Levels are displayed in the section’s drawing table
• Broad toolset for defining pipeline depth, slopes, drops, manholes depth, manholes diameter, etc.
• Broad toolset for defining pipeline depth, slopes, drops, manholes depth, manholes diameter, etc.
• Automatic air valves design capabilities to shorten design process
• Interactive updates between section and layout design
• Simultaneous presentation of existing and designed ground levels
• Detailed crossing infrastructures including depth and diameter
• Water pressure valves positioning along a pipeline feature

Comprehensive reports and plotting

• Volume calculations report generation
• Detailed reports: IPs- manholes, depth and size, designed data table
• Discharges report
• Automatic division of sections according to the paper size for plotting

Reservoirs and Dams Design

• Unique method for reservoirs, dams and ponds design (require CivilCAD 10-Roads)
• Balanced earthworks calculations
• Production of operational plans (scraper plane and sections)
• Levels based capacity computations
• Multi ponds design supporting shared embankments and slopes
• Special features allowing reservoir bottom-surface elevations design

Survey, Standard, Roads and Pipes packages

ZWCAD Civil Full Package combines all of Civil CAD’s capabilities in one product. ZWCAD Civil Full Package includes: Survey, Standard, Roads and Pipes packages.