General Commands

• NEW Project Setup – Added ability to define data and drawing folders to associate with drawings. User-defined data folders can be specified for each data file type.
• Drawing Cleanup – Added several new functions such as removing overlapping polyline loops and fixing extruded arcs and text.
• File Selection – For all data file selection, added folder manager to set favorite folders for data files.
• 3D Viewer Window – Added ability to edit entity layers and elevations and to create selection sets.
• Transparent Commands – New transparent command of ‘CL for specifying a position by station-offset from a centerline at any point prompt. Created a new transparent command toolbar with this new station-offset command along with the existing ‘2 and ‘3 for 2D and 3D points by coordinate file point number commands.
• NEW Layer Inspector – New command to highlight, isolate and/or zoom to layers selected from a docked list.
• Report Formatter –Added more controls for sorting fields.
• NEW Selection Set By Elevation – New command to create a selection of entities within a specified elevation range.
• Add Points At Elevation – Inserts vertices into a 3D Polyline at a specific elevation or elevation interval by interpolating between existing elevations in the polyline.
• Draw 2D Polyline – Added method to enter initial distance and use cursor direction to start the polyline. Added method to specify reference centerline and enter points by station-offset. Added option to enter distances in feet and inches within extend mode. New option to label elevation of polyline.
• Highlight Crossing Breaklines – Added option for tolerance of elevation difference to report and option to merge 3D polyline with contour elevations.
• Remove Arcs Offset – New settings in Configure to control spacing on replacing arcs with chords.
• NEW Variable Offset – New command to offset a polyline with different offset amounts for each polyline segment.
• NEW Move Text – New command to slide text parallel or perpendicular to current rotation.
• Insert Symbols – New dialog interface for pre-defined layer, size and rotation.
• NEW Block/Insert Rotate – New command to set the angle of blocks by various methods.
• NEW Copy Polyline Section – New command to copy a portion of a polyline at the specified points and put copied portion on another layer.
• Align To Nearest Line – In Twist Point Attributes, Rotate Text and Rotate Inserts, added method to select multiple alignment polylines and align the objects to the nearest segment.
  

Civil Design Commands

• Grid Models – Improved the memory management for large grid files to make more use of the available computer memory.
• Triangulate & Contour – Improved speed by 33% and improved memory usage 25%. Added processing option to simplify the triangulation by a user-specified tolerance. Added setting to control line width for intermediate contours.
• Surface Manager – Added ability to add a surface into the manager by selecting a triangulation file.
• Triangulation File Utilities – Added function to Enhance Flat areas and improved routine to Simplify (reduce) triangulation. Added method for Merge tin’s to erase old tin under new tin and re-triangulate the gap.
• Design Pad Template – Added the option to use an interior triangulation surface for the pad design surface and on editing the pad, there is an option to apply the adjustments to this interior surfaces along with selected drawing entities. For slope groups, added ability to transition between different slopes, method to assign group between specified points and ability to save and load slope group settings.
• HOT Edit Pad Template – Redesigned as docked-dialog with ability to apply changes while still in command. Added function to balance pad and function to rotate pad. Also added support for double-click on pad entities to run Edit Pad Template.
• Fillet 3D Polyline – Added method to fillet two 3D polylines at their intersection with elevation transition along the fillet between the two polylines. Applies to merging edge of pavement polylines at road intersections.
• NEW Merge Crossing 3D Polyline – New command to merge a main 3D polyline with a side 3D polyline at their intersection by adjusting the elevation of the side polyline with the option for a vertical curve transition. Useful for merging 3D polylines of road centerlines at intersections.
• 2D To 3D Polyline By Surface Model – Added tolerance for picking up T-intersections.
• Volumes By Triangulation – Improved speed to be twice as fast.
• Contour Elevation Label – Added options to set break offset distance, label style and label index contours only.
• NEW Move Label Along Contour – New command to slide a contour elevation label along the polyline.
• Elevation Zone Analysis – Added option to subdivide 3D faces that cross zone boundaries for higher resolution.
• Slope At Points – Added option to label slopes in all surface triangulations and option whether to draw labels.
• Cut/Fill Color Map – Added option for custom colors and option to draw color map as 3D faces at real z.
• NEW Color Contours By Interval – New command to set the contour polyline colors based on the elevation interval.
• NEW Label Pad Elevation – New command to label the elevation of the selected polylines.
• Label Polyline Segment – Added option to label each segment of the entire polyline.
• Elevation Difference – Added more labeling options to the triangulation surface method.
• Story Stake Report– Added another report format option for all data for each story on the same row.
• Double-Click Editing – Double-clicking on centerline, profile and section drawing entities will start up the associated editor for that data file.
• Centerline Reactor – Added option to link centerline polyline with centerline .cl definition to update the .cl file when the polyline is modified.
• Input-Edit Centerline – Added horizontal curve speed tables and radius calculator. New function to fit curve between two line segments. Within the routine, added method to select centerline by screen polyline. Also added support for double-click on centerline polyline to run centerline editor. Added ability to select centerline points from point list or screen pick including the curve PI point.
• Draw Centerline – Added option to draw lines at curve PI.
• Input-Edit Profile – Added vertical curve tables with more default tables plus ability for user-defined tables. When a reference profile is active, the Check Stations and graphic window report the cut/fill with the current profile and the elevation of the reference profile.
• HOT NEW Road Network – New command to process multiple road designs with intersections and cul-de-sacs.
• Road Design Inspector – Added options to select second profile and section for reference.
• HOT NEW Input-Edit Road Profile – New command for designing and editing road profiles with dynamic profile, centerline and section views. Includes smart PVI editing tools.
• HOT Draw Profile – New streamlined user-interface. Added ability to save and load profile settings. Added settings for colors, text styles and linetypes for profile lines and labels. Added options to label break point stations, elevations and description, and horizontal axis elevations. For sewer profiles, added an option to prompt for dimensions of each manhole. Also for sewer profiles, added option to label descriptions and added separate settings to control label precision for pipe lengths and slopes, rim and invert elevations and stations. For the horizontal label box, all the fields are user-defined for the sequence, size, layer and style.
• Point Placement On Profile – Added settings for prefix and suffix labels for station and elevation.
• Profile To 3D Polyline – Added option to station by a separate reference alignment.
• Profile To Points – Added option to station by a separate reference alignment.
• Profile Report – Added an option to use the Report Formatter for ground and road profile reports. Also for road reports, added an option whether to report the PVC/PVT stations.
• Station-Elevation-Slope Report – Added settings for prefix and suffix labels and label size for station, elevation and slope. Added option to draw symbol. Added method to pick station-elevation position to label without reference along a profile.
• HOT Draw Section – Improved parameter input to make section layout easier especially for sheets. Added preview function in the sheets setup dialog. Added settings for colors, linetypes and text styles. Added option to link drawn section entities with section files to update drawn entities when the section file is modified. Added support for double-click on drawn section to launch section editor. Added graphical selection for description match for break point label options. Added option to label description from section point files such as ROW section files.
• Input-Edit Section File – Improved editing of subgrade to link relative offset and slopes of subgrades with surface grades. New methods to update tie points. Added function to interpolate stations by range and interval. For interpolate new sections, added option to use reference profile for more accurate control of elevations.
• Quick Section – Added options for interpolation methods and whether to use descriptions by layer.
• Section Report – Added option for user-defined offsets to report and added graphical selection of descriptions to report.
• Calculate Section Volume – Added option to report using the report formatter. Added report option to show cut/fill ratio and balance at each station.
• NEW Input-Edit End Area File – New command for entering stations with cut/fill end areas in simple spreadsheet.
• Section To 3D Polylines – Added option to use reference profile for more accurate interpolation of elevations.
• Assign Template Point Profile – Added method to station by main centerline or template point. Also added option to select reference template for selecting template id’s from a list.
• Input-Edit Superelevation – Added function for a report of the superelevation stations and slopes. Added graphics to show superelevation stages.
• Input-Edit Template Series – Added option to not transition between templates.
• Draw Typical Template – Added setting for vertical exaggeration.
• Process Road Design – For the first dialog with the road design file setup, added functions to edit each type of road design file. For template cut benches, added support for triangulation surfaces for bench target in addition to section files. Added output option for existing ground sections for when triangulation is used as existing ground. New option to edit design sections before final report and output. Added graphical selection method for choosing template and subgrade ids to draw. Added settings to control colors of triangulation output. Added option to report using the report formatter. Added report option to show cut/fill ratio and balance at each station.
• NEW Mass Haul Report – New command to report mass haul amounts and stations of balance.
• HOT NEW Mass Haul Analysis – Calculates optimal movement of cut to fill volumes with option to set borrow pits and dump piles. Reports haul distances by range.
  

Data Conversions

• NEW CARIB97 – Added support for this geoid model.
• NEW Civil 3D – New command to convert Civil 3D points into Carlson points.
• Idan Software – Added functions to output Idan .DIS linework and .REG point files in Write Polyline File and Export Text/ASCII file. Added method to import Idan .DIS linework in the Draw Polyline File command.
• NEW Geopak – New routine to import Geopak section data from .soe files.
• Leica GSI – Added another method of GSI coding for the generic format.
• NEW Leica 1200 – Added data collector transfer routines for Leica 1200 TS and GPS.
• NEW Pizer – New routine to import Pizer cross section files.
• Topcon Pocket 3D – In the Draw Polyline File command, added method to import linework from Pocket 3D.
• NEW Trimble/Geodimeter – Added command to import section data from .RLN files.