HighRoad X 6.2.2 review

HighRoad is an interactive graphical application for the geometric design of roads and highways.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 1154K Developer: Creative Engineering Buy Now Price: $995.00 Updated: 22 May 2006

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HighRoad is an interactive graphical application for the geometric design of roads and highways. Its intelligent object design and highly intuitive interface allows for fast and flexible design.

Design roads as you always have - graphically. HighRoad uses a fully integrated graphical interface tailored for civil engineers. The program's highly intuitive design means you can pick up HighRoad immediately without being a computer expert or learning complicated commands. HighRoad's interface combined with its built-in intelligence results in fast and interactive road design that produces results quickly.

What's New:
Choosing Feature Library from Edit menu caused a crash. Now fixed.
Fixed layout of dialog box for feature Library items.
DXF conversion now works.
Conversion from DXF file now has new option to ignore data on a particular layer. Also added a note in dialogs boxes to use R12 DXF format for best results.
The width of natural surface cross section extracted from the terrain model was applied symmetrically and applied to all control lines of a project.
You can now use an asymetrical natural surface cross sections, and you can set different widths for each control line.  You can change these settings when the cross section window is in front and you choose Layout from the Cross Section menu.
The horizontal scroll bar in the profile window limited the length of road to 32km.
For Mac OS X this limitation no longer applies.  For Windows and Mac OS 9 the length of road that can be displayed properly in the profile window remains at 32km.
Friction Table (used for superelevation calculations) now has an additional entry for 30km/hr.
Intersection Design now allows the chainage of the 2nd IP of a side road to be moved.
The IP can still be linked by grade to the main road that the side road is attached to.  No change to the user interface has been made.  previously if you moved the second IP it would be moved back to the original chainage (50m) after you closed the dialog box.  This was an unexpected behaviour and there was no logical reason for this limitation.  So it now works as you would expect.
Italian resources now up to date
Cross section width can now be shown on the plan view.
A new check box has been added to the "Show details" command in the Plan menu.