CAiCE Visual Roads 10 Questions and Answers
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1.11 How does CAiCE Visual Roads handle cross sections?
CAiCE Visual Roads software uses fragments for roadway design modeling. Based on user-
defined macros, each fragment can model a particular type of roadway component and is
adaptable to diverse design conditions. Each fragment also has its own list of input
parameter values, which enable you to modify the design and functionality of the fragment.
Many organizations build a library of fragments that match their design standards for typical
sections. Different fragments are provided for different types of medians, travel lanes,
shoulders, catch slopes, and so forth.
1.12 Can CAiCE Visual Roads be customized to fit my organization’s standards and
processes?
Yes. A major advantage of CAiCE Visual Roads software is its Microsoft
®
Visual Basic
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for
Applications (VBA) integration. VBA macros can quickly and easily be developed to
customize the system to meet your organization’s unique standards and practices through
various types of settings, tables, libraries, and macros.
1.13 How do I quickly make the transition from my existing software?
CAiCE Visual Roads provides many translators that make it easy to bring your existing data
into CAiCE Visual Roads. CAiCE Visual Roads software’s flexible file format utility is a
convenient tool for easily importing various kinds of data into CAiCE. Users can also use the
CAiCE LandXML interface to easily transfer CAiCE survey, design, and DTM information to
other LandXML-compatible design systems.
Autodesk recognizes the unique problems that organizations face when acquiring new
technology. Autodesk has the knowledge and experience to work closely with you to help
ensure a smooth transition.
1.14 What type of plans production capabilities does CAiCE Visual Roads provide?
CAiCE Visual Roads software’s plans production utilities enable you to produce hard copies
of drawings. CAiCE Visual Roads provides complete flexibility in creating customized sheets
for plotting plans, profiles, and cross sections. You can save the settings for the various
types of plots to an
.ini
file and customize them to suit your organizational standards.
1.15 Does CAiCE Visual Roads offer COGO functionality?
CAiCE Visual Roads includes a full suite of coordinate geometry (COGO) commands and
capabilities for design engineers. Its coordinate geometry tools for defining points, lines,
curves, spirals, and chains are simple, powerful, and completely interactive. You can define
points by known coordinates, latitude and longitude, locating by direction and distance,
angle and distance, alignment stations and offsets, intersections, projections onto other
objects, and tangencies on curves. CAiCE Visual Roads also provides many ways of storing
circular curves and has numerous utilities for defining and editing chains.
1.16 How can CAiCE Visual Roads be adapted to individual client standards?
Since many organizations work with multiple public and private clients, customization
capabilities are important. CAiCE Visual Roads uses feature codes, feature tables, cell
libraries, system settings, toolbars, color tables, text libraries, sheet format, and plans
production settings to make it easy for users to comply with standards that are designed,
developed, and supported by a client organization.