BIM Infrastructure Design
• BIM
Collaboration / Sharing / Design validation / Integrating various elements of design
• What are we delivering
3D Designs with intelligence
Sharing information
• How are we delivering
Listening to and working with industry
Building BIM solutions
Integrating with other design tools
• A BIM Workflow
•Conversion of 2D into 3D models •Drawings
•PDF’s
•Dynamic updating
•Contours / Levels / Sections
•Grids of levels
•Interrogate multiple surfaces
•colour coded cut / fill depths
•Construction build ups
•User defined material libraries / build ups
•Earthworks optimisation / Cut and fill
•Through multiple strata
•To a datum
•Borehole modelling
•AGS or user input
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PDS Volumetrics
•Interactive horizontal and vertical design
•Automatic vertical alignment design
•Based on user defined parameters
•Dynamic alignment editing
•Change the design at any stage in the process
•Violation checks
•Against design parameters
•Varying width carriageways
•Single / dual
•Freeform
•Edit at any stage of the design
•3D junctions / t-heads
•Full cross-section definition
•User defined annotation ‘styles’
•Design and setting out reports
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PDS Alignments
•Transition curve design •Curve by curve
•Compound / reverse
•Full control over leading / trailing
•Super elevation application •Automatic
•User controlled
•Violation checks
•Advanced design parameters
•Forward / overtaking visibility checks
•Junction visibility checks
•Advanced Design
•complex junctions
•Roundabouts - Stockdales rolling crown method
•Widening schemes
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PDS Highway / Advanced Design
•Interactive rule based layout
•Intelligent response to surface condition
•Cover levels
•Cover depths
•Automated numbering /re-numbering •Pipe runs
•Manholes
•Micro Drainage integration
•Networks
•Design models / Storage ponds
•Annotation
•Layout
•Manhole and Drainage schedules
•Combined road and drainage sections
•Clash checks
•3D Drainage networks
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PDS Drainage Design
•Survey data •total station
•CAD
•ESRI
•chain and offset
•Existing cross fall analysis
•Design from the crown or channels
•Threshold tie in analysis
•Iterative design refinement
•Setting out information
•Optimise re-use of planed material
•Construction quantities and drawings
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PDS Overlay
•Generate visuals directly from the design
•Walk, drive and fly through designs
•Generate fixed images
•Add trees, people, vehicles and buildings
•Distribute to customers with the free viewer
•Communicate your ideas
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PDS VR
•Assess alternatives quickly
•Test vehicle movements
•Pre-defined and user definable vehicles
•Follow a pre-defined path or ‘drive’
•Simulate forward and reverse movement
•Replay vehicle movement
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PDS Vehicle Path Analysis
• All of the required DfT diagrams • Defined marking parameters obeyed
• Dynamic placement tools / In place editing
• Line, Object, Text , Hatch objects
• Custom line style library
• Specials may be added to a library
• User definable text
• Ideal for one off situations and dual text requirements
• Annotation
• Automatically recognises diagram characteristics
• Automatically updates if the markings change
• Quantification
• Automatically measures all markings
• Output table automatically updates
• BIM Ready markings
• Automatically projects markings onto the surface
• Created as solids for use in Navisworks
• Attribute data carried over into Navisworks
PDS Line
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• Flexibility • Drag and drop legend, symbols,
• Dynamic automatic vertical spacing
• 2 symbols & plate on a map symbol exit arm
• Alignment tools
• Optimisation of flag sign size
• Support for the popular passive posts • Lattix, Spectralyte, Jerol, FSP
• Post and Foundation design to EN12899 • Guides the user
• Foundation/Post detailed drawing
• Fully dimensioned drawing output
• Sloping or level ground
• Combined or individual bases
• Plan siting • Thumb nails on the plan
• Visibility checks in 3D
• Sign schedules
• BIM Ready structures • Import into Navisworks
• Unique identifier
• Attribute data carried through
PDS Sign