Canal and River Engineering Works Design Software
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Aquaterra 2015 Canal and River Engineering Works Design Software Aquaterra is a professional software for canal and river engineering design. It is a comprehensive, full featured yet easy to use design solution.
Used for Supported CAD platforms Supported languages Product Internet page
Canal and River Engineering Works Design AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D 2015 to 2010; BricsCAD V14 to V12 English, German, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian www.aquaterra-software.com www.cgsplus.com
Aquaterra provides a user with the commands and tools to support the entire design process; from the initial input of survey data to complex 3D river/canal models with analysis tools, to documentation and publishing features. It includes functionality for DTM, alignments, profiles, sections, modeling and hydraulic computations. It can easily handle large projects with alignment lengths of several hundred kilometers. Aquaterra assists the user in preparation of professional drawings including technical documentation such as volume calculation reports. The 3D model environment enables the user to apply various types of design analyses to the design including flooding simulations, river flow and more. Aquaterra supports all the most widely used hydraulic models (MIKE 11, MIKE 21, HEC-RAS...) and many country specific design standards as well. Aquaterra has been localized and used in several countries for projects ranging from small streams and torrents to big irrigation schemes with canals of several hundred kilometers in length: •
River/Channel design.
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Irrigation systems.
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River channel and bank design for flood analysis.
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Dam reservoir design.
Important new features •
Improved design workflow with a new ribbon concept.
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You can now integrate hydro engineering design data with rail (Ferrovia) and road designs (Plateia).
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Export of geometry to Google Earth.
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Improved “Zoom to point” facilitates faster design.
CGS Infrastructure Suite “CGS Infrastructure Suite” integrates our software solutions for the design of roads, railways, river engineering works and power lines, enabling users to design different infrastructure objects within one project, with a single software solution.
Aquaterra Advantages Intuitive workflow The Aquaterra workflow consistently follows standard civil engineering river or channel design processes used in Europe, which intuitively leads the designer from the start to the successful finish of the project.
Layout
• Create the longitudinal axis of a river or channel from a polyline.
This module is comprised of commands for processing input data and drafting in plan view:
• Create cross axis in multiple ways.
• Manipulation of survey points and connections. • Insert and edit topographic and other symbols. • Raster images manager.
• Drape sections to 3D using points or surface.
Well-structured ribbons, menus and simple dialogues enable fast learning for the first time user while the toolbox and command line options are provided for the convenience of experienced users.
• Define river banks and other lines along the axis.
Handling of large data sets
• Labeling.
• Transfer point/lines from sections into plan view or 3D.
• Hatch/color embankments.
• Axes-related utilities.
• 2D-3D conversions.
Longitudinal Sections
• Calculations and interpolations. • Utilities for dimensioning and processing of plan view.
Axes In this module the user finds powerful commands for manipulating longitudinal and cross axes:
Easy to learn and use
This module contains the commands processing profiles of rivers and canals: • Plot existing ground or channel profile. • Insert left and right banks from cross sections or 3D model.
Aquaterra 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 Aquaterra is available in several languages and supports country specific drawing layouts. Aquaterra customers are entitled to use any country-specific version of the software in case of designing projects for foreign countries. Team-work Support River or channel regulation projects can be very efficiently divided among multiple team members who can then work simultaneously. Projects can be split into layout & horizontal alignment drawings, longitudinal-sections drawings and cross-sections drawings. Alignments design tools “par excellence” Aquaterra contains powerful alignment design and editing methods
and tools. With intelligent Best Fit algorithms you can design alignments automatically based on surveyed points. Unique cross-section design concept The “Design in one, draw in several 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 conditions change frequently. Each cross-section can be treated individually with interactive drafting and editing commands. Native CAD application Aquaterra 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 Aquaterra has a modular structure. Modules can be installed separately or in any combination. In conjunction with network licensing options (floating modules and floating packages) Aquaterra corporate installation can be specifically tailored for each customer. CAD platform choice Aquaterra can be installed on top of AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD 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 Aquaterra customers the possibility to optimize their “Cost of ownership” without sacrificing function abilities.
• Insert one or more water surfaces. • Design vertical alignment of a new channel bottom parametrically/graphically.
• Create a new flow section – automatically (with the simple hydraulic calculator), semi-automatically or interactively.
• Customize tabular part of the profile.
• Editing, labeling, dimensioning of cross-sections.
• Split single longitudinal section into several frames for plotting on one or more sheets.
• Define banks automatically or interactively, or insert from 3D model.
• Several tools for drawing and inserting of geometric elements, dimensions lines etc.
• Insert 1D, 2D or combined water surfaces.
Cross-sections This module contains the tools needed for designing and processing sections: • Plot existing ground and channel sections.
• Calculate takeoff quantities. • Several tools for processing (add blocks, dimensions, zoom sections…). • Cross-sections plan production tools.
Hydraulic Interfaces
between the design power of Aquaterra and industry standard hydrodynamic simulation engines. HEC-RAS interface: • Prepare the HEC-RAS geometric input file based on cross-sections, bank and Manning coefficient data. • Transfer the resulting water levels back to Aquaterra for displaying in cross-sections, longitudinal sections and layout. • Transfer geometry data from HECRAS to Aquaterra. MIKE 11 interface:
from Aquaterra to MIKE 11 cross -section file. • Read the MIKE 11 result files and import the following data back to Aquaterra: water levels, cross-sections, longitudinal sections, bank and levee positions and axes. MIKE 21 interface: • Aquaterra connects AutoCAD Civil 3D with the most widely used 2D hydrodynamic computation program. • Interactively create and edit numerical grid. • Export AutoCAD Civil 3D surfaces to MIKE 21 bathymetry (dfs1 format).
• Export geometric data (stations and geometry of the cross-sections, channel banks and levees)
• Import velocity or flow field and scalar fields (depth, water surface, flow magnitude) from MIKE 21 results.
CGS plus is an established European developer in the field of transportation, infrastructure and AEC. Since 1990, CGS plus has been developing and providing a family of professional high-end civil engineering applications as well as Civil 3D and Revit software tools for civil engineers and architects.
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