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1. General Product Information
1.1 What is CAiCE Visual Roads?
CAiCE
™
Visual Roads
®
software is a comprehensive design tool that enables you to
interactively create design models for transportation projects of all types. You can use it for
projects ranging from simple roads to complex highways and interchanges, as well as
railroads, airport runways, canals, and dikes. The software’s powerful capabilities are well
suited for complex jobs with intricate details and large data sets, and its unique fragment
technology makes it completely customizable to any level of detail. CAiCE Visual Roads is
easy to use and provides robust engineering and modeling capabilities for every phase of
the design process.
1.2 Who uses CAiCE Visual Roads?
Civil engineers with consulting firms, county and municipal agencies, and departments of
transportation use CAiCE Visual Roads for transportation projects of every type, including
simple roads, complex highways and interchanges, rehabilitation and widening, and
subdivision and site development.
Many state departments of transportation (DOT) currently use CAiCE Visual Roads software,
including Caltrans, Wisconsin DOT, Georgia DOT, and Washington DOT.
1.3 Why should I buy CAiCE Visual Roads?
CAiCE Visual Roads eliminates the need to use templates or criteria files for creating typical
sections. CAiCE Visual Roads unique fragments technology provides an easy way to design a
roadway by plugging in ready-made components such as raised or depressed medians,
travel lanes, shoulders, ditches, catch slopes, berms, and benches. This design modeling
approach saves time and simplifies roadway design. It also provides interactive, component-
based modeling for easy adaptation to changes in conditions.
Using CAiCE Visual Roads software’s customization tools, you can adjust the software to fit
your workflow requirements and ensure that field standards are being met. CAiCE Visual
Roads helps your engineers work faster and smarter.
1.4 Is CAiCE Visual Roads a stand-alone product?
Yes, CAiCE Visual Roads is a stand-alone system and does not require any other application
to operate. It provides general-purpose automation tools that you can use for all
transportation design projects.
CAiCE Visual Roads can also run with the Visual CADLinks application, which eliminates the
need for import/export translators. Visual CADLinks runs CAiCE Visual Roads and your CAD
system simultaneously, linking the systems together. While you have a DWG or DGN file
open in your CAD program, CAiCE also has access to its own project database. You can use
simple toolbar functions to control whether to produce CAiCE graphics in the CAD window,
the CAiCE window, or both simultaneously. You can collapse the CAiCE application window
to show only menus and toolbars, leaving all the graphics to the CAD system, or you can
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