Your One-Stop App for Road Sign Design and Pavement Markings

GuideSIGN® suite of software products enable you to create, design and plan the installation of traffic signs and pavement markings with the most up-to-date federal & agency standards. Design for roadway, complete street improvements, road dieting, restriping projects and more. Remove the inefficiencies of manual design cycles and ensure compliancy and design with consistency.

What Makes GuideSIGN Unique

GuideSIGN contains three modules, each with its own features that provide a tailored solution for sign design, sign planning and pavement marking to enhance your workflow.

Create custom signs

With GuideSIGN or Plus Sign creation is made easy with built-in rules to design panels to national standards like shields, arrows, text and symbols, with the flexibility to make custom content. Design signs for various needs, such as highways, roundabouts, freeways and more.

Plan and position signs

With GuideSIGN SIGMA or Plus Use signs created from GuideSIGN or from our extensive library to clearly plot, position and visualize your sign plan in 2D or 3D. Create sign groupings, mount signage on a variety of structures, and use the smart placement to automate the process. Finish off the project with the customizable Annotations and Markers feature to create labels on the sign facing.

Ensure design compliance from the start

With any GuideSIGN Completely updated to the latest requirements for:

• US (MUTCD 2009 with all supplements)
• Canada (TAC-ATC 2021)
• Australia (AS 1744-2018)

Reporting is a breeze

With any GuideSIGN Create comprehensive reports outlining all the signage details including schedules or facilitate database schema suitable for importing directly into existing asset management software. The pavement marking tool automatically calculates and tabulates the quantities of each type of marking on a drawing and even provides an estimate cost, saving you hours over manual calculation methods.

Pavement markings

With GuideSIGN SIGMA or Plus Draw a full range of pavement marking objects from rules and manuals – for rural and urban areas, easily adjust and match your road geometry. Items such as dotted lines to crosswalks can be created quickly, and can be edited by grip points and change values to meet any geometry.

Visualize the impact in 3D

With GuideSIGN SIGMA or Plus Bring your design one step further to completion – display your signs and pavement markings in 3D to get a better understanding and a realistic view of the impact on your road and intersection environment.

Features

Create Accurate and Compliant Designs with Our Road Sign Maker

The GuideSIGN product family is the leading solution for major departments of transportation, regional and local governments, and top consultants. Whether you’re creating plans for highways or construction sites, for complete street improvements or road dieting projects, you can count on GuideSIGN software to create road sign and marking designs with ease. Equipped with templates and up-to-date guidelines, GuideSIGN products ensure your designs are clear and accurate.

Create Signs

Sign creation made easy with built-in rules to design panels to national standards like shields, arrows, text and symbols, with the flexibility to make custom content. Design signs for various needs, such as highways, roundabouts, and bicycle facilities.

Panel Design

Easy and intuitive panel design. The program automatically re-dimensions dynamic panels as you add new elements. A sign can utilize design symbols from a library including multiple arrows, shields and even custom content.

Government and Agency Standards

GuideSIGN Plus supports the latest:

• US (MUTCD 2023 with all supplements)
• Canada (TAC-ATC 2021 with updates)
  • British Columbia 2023
• Australia (AS 1744-2018)
  • New South Wales 2024 Work with new color set, updated panel styles (for guide, street, exit, regulatory, warning, and construction), as well as updated libraries for route markers, shields, arrows, and symbols.

Create Signs From Template or Your Own

Design with consistency using guide or street signs from MUTCD standard or design your own custom templates. Create a new sign by simply replacing text and available objects (shields, symbols, etc.) within the panel. Together with the latest US (MUTCD 2023 with all supplements), Canada (TAC-ATC 2021 with updates) and Australia (AS 1744-2018) it provides you with up-to-date sign templates created specifically for the new guidelines.

Multiple Street Sign Design

Create multiple street signs in a single operation from a selected template and list of street names, street types, sections of the city, ordinal endings, and block numbers.

Sign Assembly

Work with your previously generated GuideSIGN signs or simple CAD drafted cell or block libraries. You can browse through your user-defined libraries and select signs for assembly design.

Additional Federal and Regional Signs

Additional sign libraries can be purchased to supplement your traffic sign planning projects. These high quality CAD sign libraries support full color, black & white filled, and outline display modes.

MUTCD Pavement Lines, Symbols, Numbers & Letters

Easily add in any lines, arrows, hatches, symbol, number, or letters in accordance to MUTCD standard, onto your road design. Furthermore, you can custom build line types and dynamically edit objects. All markings associated with bus lanes, bus stops, cycle lanes or cycle facilities can be drawn to help with green transport strategies.

Sign Assembly Placement and Position

Place sign assemblies freely in your traffic plan drawing or in relation to a reference line. Offset reference geometry representing elements such as the edge of pavement, median, or shoulder, can be selected and set. GuideSIGN Plus supports simple geometry in base CAD platforms and stationing alignments in vertical CAD products.

Sign Plan Smart Templates

A unique feature that allows for placing multiple signs in a sign plan based on pre-set geometry and standards. Just select one of our premade templates and follow the simple steps shown on a preview, like picking your edge of a Road and Stop line to automatically create the required signs at the right distances to each other.

Bike Infrastructure and Electric Vehicles Sign Design

With the newly added bike infrastructure and electric vehicle sign design components aligned with MUTCD (2023) standard, stay ahead of the curve with sustainable transportation trends and supporting evolving road and transportation requirements.

Moving and Placing Objects in Panel

Point-to-point snap allows users to choose key points on fixed objects to accurately position the object being moved. Multiple objects can also be selected and centered between a vertical short line and a border within a panel.

Modify Panel Styles

You can quickly and efficiently create and modify custom sign panels to fit strict project requirements. An extensive library of the latest national MUTCD panel styles combined with font flexibility in GuideSIGN Plus allows you to develop the exact signage required.

Align Text Components in a Panel

Pick a text component of a multi-part string to be positioned in reference to another text string sitting above or below. This saves from having to manually adjust each line to fit properly.

Pavement Markings

Draw a full range of pavement marking objects from rules and manuals – for rural and urban areas, easily adjust and match your road geometry. Items, such as dotted lines to crosswalks, can be created quickly and easily modified using grip points and adjustable values to fit any geometry design. Bus lanes and protected bike lanes can also easily be generated using this tool to create safer environments for all users.

Sign Assembly and Display Options

Easily change the status of an existing sign assembly and sign sizing, or add, remove or switch signs and sign groups within the defined assembly. Ensure a consistent visual display of placed sign assemblies in your traffic plan drawings. Each sign assembly status type can be placed on a unique level/layer and set with different color and line type.

Adjust Sign Groups in Drawing

Set the sign support symbol rotation to orient the sign facing direction to match the direction of oncoming traffic. You can also add a leader line between the sign group and sign support symbol.

Custom Arrows

Need an arrow meeting requirements for a specific region or a unique project? User-defined directional arrows (straight, down, 45°- 90° turns, and custom types) can be designed with filleted bends and end points. Arrow types such as multi-headed diagrammatic for roundabouts, thru-turn, split and left-thru-right directions.

Build Template From Sign

After you have designed your sign, you can save to a library and then later select it to become your regular sign template for traffic signing plans (block or cell). No more having to recreate your signs from scratch.

Font Selection

Designers can produce signage to meet any font requirements with the FHWA standard typeface family, the ClearviewHwy® font system, and all true type fonts.

Language Accents

Handle French and Spanish accents – suitable for relevant place names (e.g. Quebec, Latin America, and some parts in the US).

Customizable Sign Plan Annotations and Markers

A customizable and flexible annotation system for creating the labels on the sign facing is now available. Sign facings are created from complete and up-to date CAD libraries based on federal and state Guidelines – MUTCD and Supplements. Add sign name, sign description, sign status or sign material for example, save your customized Annotation Set and share it within your organization with an easy import and export function.

Dynamic Sign Assembly Creation

Select different sign arrangement templates to work with or create your own custom arrangement for sign assembles and set mounting types.

Report Sign Fabrication

You can create comprehensive reports outlining all the signage details including schedules or facilitate database schema suitable for importing directly into existing asset management software.

3D View

The powerful option to view your design in 3D not just helps with the design stages during safety audits, but also lets you get a better understanding and a realistic perspective of the impact on your road and intersection environment.

Sign Assembly Reporting

A flexible reporting solution allows you to create signage reports based on your required parameters. Reports can be saved in a CSV format and imported into common spreadsheet applications.

Pavement Marking Reporting

Automatically calculate and tabulate the quantities of each type of marking on a drawing and even provide a cost estimate, saving hours over manual calculation methods. Reports can be saved in a CSV format and imported into common spreadsheet applications.