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Vertical Design – Design setting option where we can specify that the levels should be a certain height above or below existing ground levels

Is it feasible to look into an option whereby we can specify the height above or below existing ground that the designs should be set? This should allow designers to easily adjust levels to help achieve a cut and fill balance
Mick Taylor 8 days ago in LiveDesign 0

Vertical Designs - Start and end gradients that follow existing ground - within specified parameters

Is it feasible to look into an option for start and end of alignments that will : follow existing ground to a maximum specified gradient (we would typically not be any steeper than 1 in 25 away from the channel) This design setting will allow for ...
Mick Taylor 8 days ago in LiveDesign 0

Drive - When creating vehicles enable wheels on separate axles to be adjusted

At present you cannot have varying wheel sizes on each axle and instead can only have one fixed wheel size and width. This therefore means we cannot have accurate swept paths tracks for for vehicles and/or trailers where the wheels sizes change. A...
Guest about 2 months ago in LiveDesign 0

placing retaining walls/stairs

some sites we are working on have had some significant level differences, which has led to the need for retaining walls. At present Live Design tries to grade the surface between these level differences. Please can you add a feature where a retain...
Guest about 2 years ago in LiveDesign 0 Planned

Tracking - Non Standard Vehicles Types

The ability to create non-standard vehicle tracks i.e. all terrain cranes with multiple axles. Also update to the standard library.
Jamie Deakin 12 months ago in LiveDesign 0

Ability to toggle give way triangle on and off

When creating junction road markings using the "Give way junction" option, it would be useful to be able to toggle the give way triangle on and off as it is not always required.
Guest 4 months ago in LiveDesign 0

Multiple Surface Cross Sections

The ability to create a regular grid of surface cross sections at set intervals will be very useful - similar to the Sections command available within PDS. This would need to identify the cross section positions on the layout plan and identify the...
Ian Woolgar over 1 year ago in LiveDesign 0 Planned

Feature Annotation

Can we have Dynamic Feature Annotation please?
Ben Stoodley about 1 year ago in LiveDesign 0 Planned

editing finished surface

When a road/plot is added the finish surface displays this, and then ties back to the base surface as soon as possible. While I can add batters/features to a road/plot to control how this is tied into the finished surface, the issue still remains ...
Jason Bale 8 months ago in LiveDesign 1 Planned

better layer functions

Items are drawn on whatever layer you happen to be using at the time, rather than breaking down various entities to a corresponding layer. For example, when placing a road all the information for that road is on a single layer and various colours ...
Jason Bale about 2 years ago in LiveDesign 0