CAiCE Visual Roads 10 Questions and Answers
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4. Customization, Consulting, Training, and Support
4.1 How do I get customized development done for CAiCE Visual Roads?
A major advantage of CAiCE Visual Roads is the ability to customize the software to meet
unique standards and practices through various settings, tables, libraries, and macros.
CAiCE Visual Roads includes Microsoft’s VBA as its macro development language. Because
the software combines VBA and user-accessible functions for database access, graphical
interaction, and geometric computations, you can develop macros that customize the CAiCE
Visual Roads application to meet the needs of your organization.
CAiCE Visual Roads also uses VBA to open direct links between the software and other
Windows applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, and ArcView™. Format
translators, data import/export utilities, customized plans production tools, special
geometric computation utilities, and many other applications can be written exactly to your
organization’s specifications. Furthermore, these applications are simply added to a macro
library for immediate access.
Customization Examples
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Smart objects
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Feature tables and cell libraries
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VBA macros
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Fragments
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Visual WebBoats and Visual Tugboat
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macros
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Format translators
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Plans production tools
4.2 Are professional consulting services available for CAiCE Visual Roads?
Yes. Experienced Autodesk/CAiCE consultants are available to work with your group at
several different levels. Users with specific organizational needs can construct an on-site
consulting program that fortifies available internal resources. The Autodesk/CAiCE
consultants become an integral part of your team to help you become productive on the
software as quickly and as cost effectively as possible.
Using experience from other implementation projects, consultants work with you to develop
a comprehensive project plan tailored to your requirements. Autodesk’s proven
methodology helps you eliminate unnecessary documentation, paper-based design sessions,
and inflexible project plans that result in higher costs.
Consulting Examples
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Workflow analysis
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Implementation strategy
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Installation support
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Transition planning
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Import/export translators