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Inspection Chamber connection to Network

There should be an option to connect an inspection chamber serving a house or apartment unit directly to the network, with a tie-in to the top (soffit) of the main sewer. The invert levels (ILs) of the proposed inspection chambers, and of the tie-...
Guest 22 days ago in LiveDesign 0

Sections should show crossing points between different networks

Sections should show crossing points between different networks for example foul and storm so minimum vertical separation distance can be shown to show compliance with Uisce Éireann Code of Practice.
Guest 22 days 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 over 3 years ago in LiveDesign 0 Planned

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 almost 3 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 over 2 years ago in LiveDesign 0

Clearer presentation of Vehicle Swept Paths

The Envelope Outline is good but for some reason a vehicle outline is drawn at each of the Intermediate Points, which looks messy, and if Intermediate Points are displayed then that also looks messy with lots of overlapping vehicle outlines. It wo...
Tom Lafford 8 months ago in LiveDesign 0

Feature Annotation

Can we have Dynamic Feature Annotation please?
Ben Stoodley over 2 years ago in LiveDesign 0 Planned

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 over 1 year ago in LiveDesign 2 Already exists

Live Design running within BricsCAD

Given that there are other CAD based Packages other than those by AutoDesk, it would be useful to be able to run Live Design within others, probably one of the largest alternatives is BricsCAD - pair this with greater functionality within the Swep...
Guest over 3 years 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 over 1 year ago in LiveDesign 0