Professional Software

for Road Design and

Road Reconstruction

Version 2015

Plateia 2015Road Design SoftwarePlateia is a professional software for road and road reconstruc-tion design. It is a comprehensive, full featured, yet easy to use roadway design solution.

With its original design workflow, Plateia provides the user with com-mands and tools to support the entire design process; from the initial input of survey data to complex 3D road models with analysis tools to documentation and publishing features. Using its flexible data model, Plateia can be easily integrated into BIM processes.

Plateia includes functionality for DTM, grading, alignments, profiles, cross-sections, intersections, traffic circles/roundabouts, 3D modeling, traffic signs and markings. It can easily handle large projects with align-ment lengths of several hundred kilometers.

Plateia assists the user in the preparation of professional drawings in-cluding the technical documentation such as volume calculations with comprehensive mass-haul diagrams according to several roadway de-sign standards.

The 3D model environment enables the user to apply various analyses to the design such as swept path, visibility, road water runoff, and more.

Plateia has been used in several countries for projects ranging from ur-ban roads and intersections to countless reconstructions and large scale highway projects:

• Road Design of all categories from freeways (motorways) with complex interchanges to local roads.

• Road reconstruction and rehabilitation.• Earthworks and volumetrics.

Used for Road Design and Road Reconstruction design

Supported CAD platforms

AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D from versions 2015 to 2010; BricsCAD from versions V14 to V12

Supported languages

English, German, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian

Supported standards

German, Austrian, Brazilian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Croatian, Macedoni-an, Serbian, Slovenian

Product Internet page

www.plateia-software.com www.cgsplus.com

Important new features• Improved design workflow with new ribbon concept.

• You can now integrate road design data with rail (Ferrovia) and river design (Aquaterra).

• Export of Roadway geometry to Google Earth.

• Insert AutoCAD Civil 3D pipes into Plateia cross-sections.

• New Superelevation editor enables the user to view the terrain line while editing the superelevations.

• Read Point elevation from surface or roadway.

CGS Infrastructure Suite“CGS Infrastructure Suite” integrates our software solutions for the de-sign of roads, railways, river engineering works and power lines, ena-bling users to design different infrastructure objects within one project, with a single software solution.

Plateia Advantagesany combination of tangent/spiral or compound spiral/arc elements. With intelligent Best Fit algorithms you can design alignments auto-matically based on surveyed points.

Unique cross-section design concept

The “Design in one, draw in sever-al cross-sections” concept allows efficient processing and editing of cross-sections. Different levels of automation allow for the fast design of segments with similar cross-sections as well as handling the cross-sections where the con-ditions change frequently. Each cross-section can be treated indi-vidually with interactive drafting and editing commands.

Native CAD application

Plateia is fully integrated into the CAD environment. All the data are stored in one or more DWG files. The drawings can be modified with CAD commands at any design stage giving you complete flexibility in the design process.

Modular structure

Plateia has a modular structure. Modules can be installed separately or in any combination. In conjunc-tion with network licensing options (floating modules and floating packages) Plateia corporate installa-tion can be specifically tailored for each customer.

CAD platform choice

Plateia can be installed on top of AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Au-toCAD Map 3D or BricsCAD, where the functionality always remains the same. In the future additional CAD platforms will be supported. This CAD platform choice gives Plateia customers the possibility to optimize their “Cost of ownership” without sacrificing function abili-ties.

Intuitive workflow

The Plateia workflow consistently follows the standard civil engineer-ing roadway design process used in Europe, which intuitively leads the designer from the start to the suc-cessful finish of the project.

Easy to learn and use

Well-structured ribbons, menus and simple dialogues enable fast learning for the first time user while the toolbox and command line op-tions are provided for the conveni-ence of experienced users.

Handling of large data sets

Plateia is capable of handling large projects with very long alignments and thousands of cross-sections within seconds. You can easily work on alignment changes without the need to cut it into smaller pieces.

Support for local design standards

Plateia is available in several lan-guages and supports country spe-cific road design standards, draw-ing layouts, traffic signs and other symbols, vehicles, etc. Plateia cus-tomers are entitled to use any coun-try specific version of the software in case of designing projects for the foreign countries.

Team-work Support

Road projects can be very efficient-ly divided among multiple team members who can then work si-multaneously. Projects can be split into layout & horizontal alignment drawings, longitudinal-section drawings and cross-section draw-ings.

Alignments design tools “par excellence”

Plateia contains powerful align-ment design and editing methods and tools. They allow you to design

AxesThis module provides the user with powerful commands for manipulating horizontal align-ments:

• Design and edit horizontal align-ments with three different meth-ods and the option to combine all three into one single alignment.

• Create horizontal alignments based on surveyed points with best-fit method that automati-cally produces tangents, arcs and spirals.

• Create cross axes in multiple ways.

• Automatic labeling.

• Transfer points/lines from sections into plan view or 3D.

Layout This module is comprised of commands for processing input data, and drafting in plan view:

• Digital terrain model capable of handling several million points.

• Manipulation of survey points and connections.

• Insert and edit topographic and other symbols.

• Raster image manager.

• Hatch/color embankments.

• 2D-to-3D conversions.

• Calculations and interpolations.

• Utilities for dimensioning and pro-cessing of plan view.

• Layout plan production tools.

• Horizontal alignment-related util-ities.

• Horizontal visibility analysis.

• Grading functionality.

Longitudinal SectionsThis module contains the com-mands needed to process and analyze alignment profiles:

• Design the vertical geometry of the road.

• Calculate and edit supereleva-tions.

• Vertical visibility analysis.

• Road water runoff analysis.

• Mass-haul diagrams.

• Customizable profile bands.

• Several tools for drawing and in-serting of geometric elements, dimensions lines, etc.

• Longitudinal section plan produc-tion tools.

Cross-sectionsThis module contains the com-mands needed to process and analyze cross-sections:

• Plot existing ground and roadway sections.

• Simple design of cross-sections with various cross section ele-ments (embankment shoulder, ditch, drainage, substructure,

pavement/sidewalk, conditional element ...).

• Editing, labeling, dimensioning of cross-sections.

• Tools for defining, editing and ap-plying typical cross-sections.

• Calculate takeoff quantities.

• Several tools for processing (add blocks, dimensions, zoom sec-tions…).

• Cross-sections plan production tools.

TrafficThis module expands the design-er's ability to create and analyze by providing tools for Traffic Signalization, Intersection De-sign and Swept Path Analysis:

• Autopath – horizontal and vertical swept path analysis.

• Draw, edit and create reports from traffic signs.

• Design pavement markings (cross-walks/zebra crossings, longitudi-nal markings, ghost islands, etc.).

• Present traffic signs and pavement marking in 3D view to create ef-fective visualizations.

• Splitter island design (teardrop, triangular).

• Complete traffic circle/rounda-bout design.

• Curb return fillets.

• Bus bays.

CGS plus d.o.o.Brnčičeva ulica 13SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 530 11 00Fax: +386 1 530 11 32

Internet: www.cgsplus.come-mail: info@cgsplus.si

About CGS plusCGS plus is an established European developer in the field of transportation, infrastructure and AEC. Since 1990, CGS plus has been developing and pro-viding a family of professional high-end civil engineering applications as well as Civil 3D and Revit software tools for civil engineers and architects.

CGS plus software solutions are used every day by more than 3.000 customers in 30 countries all over the globe.

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