SierraSoft Roads Design Studio is a comprehensive Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solution specifically engineered for the design of road and hydraulic infrastructure. It empowers users to produce, modify, share, and analyze road and hydraulic information models, significantly optimizing design activities and containing costs by integrating design and information modeling processes simultaneously within a single work environment. The software includes all the functionalities found in SierraSoft Roads (for road and highway design) and SierraSoft Hydro (for hydraulic design), providing a complete suite of tools for design, policy control, information modeling, and quantities calculation. The platform leverages the M3 Framework Database to store all project data, ensuring consistency across plans, profiles, sections, information documents, and models. It supports real-time modification and checking, allowing instant updates when parameters are changed and immediate verification of results. SierraSoft Roads Design Studio facilitates the creation of a digital reproduction of existing territory by acquiring information from various sources like topographic surveys, point clouds, and BIM models (IFC, LandXML), enabling detailed terrain modeling and the generation of comprehensive "As-Found" information models. It supports a wide range of coordinate systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency in design activities.

Features & Benefits

• Parametric Dynamic Design in BIM
  • Facilitates simultaneous design activities, geometric-informative modeling, and interoperable model definition within a single work environment, allowing for rapid project completion and drawing generation.
• Real-time Modification & Checking
  • Enables unprecedented control over designs and drastically reduces design time through real-time 3D cross-section on planimetry, with automatic updates upon parameter changes.
• M3 Framework Database Integration
  • Stores all design and information modeling data (geometries and data) in a centralized database, ensuring consistency across project data, information documents, and models.
• As-Found Modeling
  • Creates a digital reproduction of the territory by acquiring and utilizing land information from various sources.
  • Acquire information from topographic surveys, maps, GIS data, point clouds, and BIM models (IFC, LandXML).
  • Efficiently handle one or more point clouds of any size with fast loading, display, drawing, and extraction functions.
  • Automatically generate triangular slope models (DTM) and contour lines from surveyed terrain.
  • Create complete information models from acquired data, defining geometries and information content.
  • Supports a wide range of EPSG standards-based and localized coordinate systems for accuracy and consistency.
• Hydraulic Design Capabilities
  • Simplifies the design of waterways, canals, ditches, pipes, pipe networks, and manholes.
  • Define horizontal and vertical alignments for waterways, managing axis intersections and automatic 3D model generation.
  • Design pipes with real-time control, custom libraries for pipe/manhole styles, and design constraints.
  • Create pipe networks for sharing manholes and generate 3D models of excavations.
• Alignment Design
  • Provides an intuitive system for creating horizontal and vertical alignments with essential commands, grips, properties, and intelligent objects.
  • Define horizontal axes using straights, circular curves, clothoid, and parabolas, with automatic calculation of widenings and superelevations.
  • Automatically return terrain profiles from various sources, extract and analyze elements, and define project profiles with grade lines and curves.
• Road Intersection Design
  • Allows for the easy and precise design of any type of road intersection, including roundabouts, at-grade intersections, and complex interchanges.
• Parametric Typical Sections & Objects
  • Enables the creation and management of typical sections by assembling parametric objects, which can be customized or programmed using a scripting language.
• Automatic Cross Sections
  • Extracts data from various sources (triangle models, point clouds, information models, cartography) and automatically inserts/manages project typical sections, generating customizable drawings with quantities tables.
• Quantities Calculation
  • Allows users to define and calculate quantities (cut, fill, topsoil, etc.) from different sources, storing results within the information model for printouts.
• Policy Compliance & Verification
  • Checks project compliance with policies, verifies design parameters, generates visibility and speed diagrams, and calculates superelevations/widenings automatically.
• Non-linear 3D Design
  • Goes beyond traditional design methods to generate complex 3D surfaces and solid compounds directly in 3D, enabling interactive design of various landforms.
• Hydrological Analysis
  • Obtains valuable information for hydrographic and hydrological analysis, displaying slope vectors, valleys, ridges, and calculating basin filling volumes.
• Advanced Information Modeling
  • Defines BIM models in detail simultaneously with design, integrating buildingSMART's IDS and bSDD standards for easy creation, management, and validation of information content. Requires SierraSoft BIM Modeling extension.
• Information Exchange & Multi-disciplinary Integrated Design
  • Shares project information in open formats like IFC (2x3, 4.1, 4.3) and LandXML for export to other software, and imports models for integrated design and federated model management. Requires SierraSoft BIM Exchange extension.
• Information Analysis & Verification
  • Analyzes, verifies, and validates information content of BIM models simultaneously with design, identifying and resolving errors, detecting interferences, and performing specific checks for topographic and infrastructural models. Requires SierraSoft BIM Checking extension.
• Automated Information Document Generation
  • Automatically generates various drawings and reports from project data and information models, including geometry annotations, longitudinal profiles, cross sections, and project planimetry.
• Open Format Information Models
  • Creates customizable information models in open formats like IFC and LandXML, defining version, domain, spatial structure, elements, and properties according to BIM Execution Plan (BEP) specifications.
• Positioning & Construction Support
  • Generates reports, drawings, and models for topographic positioning and exports models for "machine control" systems, automating design and construction processes.
• As-Built Model Creation
  • Creates detailed information models representing the built environment by integrating project data with information acquired during construction.
• Coordination & Integration Platform
  • Serves as a platform for coordinating multidisciplinary design by allowing sharing and aggregation of models from various infrastructure types to support design choices.