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.

Create Signs From Template or Design 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 2009 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.

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.

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 because GuideSIGN supports 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).

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.