SierraSoft Roads provides a robust BIM solution specifically tailored for the design of roads and highways. It allows users to produce, modify, share, and analyze road information models seamlessly. The software integrates design and information modeling activities, leading to optimized workflows and cost containment. It offers a complete suite of tools for design, policy control, information modeling, and quantities calculation within a single product. The platform supports parametric dynamic design, allowing projects to be developed with incredible ease. Design activities, geometric-informative modeling, and the definition of interoperable models occur simultaneously in a unified work environment. Users can insert axes, define typical sections, set BIM model characteristics, and generate finished projects, drawings, and information models with a single click, significantly enhancing design value. SierraSoft Roads facilitates real-time modification and checking, drastically reducing design time through 3D real-time cross-section on planimetry. Changes to parameters automatically update the entire project, allowing immediate verification before final project creation. All design and information modeling data (geometries and data) are stored in the M3 Framework Database, ensuring consistency across project data, information documents, and information models. The software also supports the creation of digital reproductions of existing territories, acquisition of land information from various sources (topographic surveys, maps, GIS data, point clouds, BIM models), and efficient handling of point clouds of any size. It automatically generates triangular slope models (DTM) and contour lines, enabling the creation of comprehensive 'As-Found' information models.

Features & Benefits

• Parametric Dynamic BIM Design
  • Enables simultaneous design, geometric-informative modeling, and interoperable model definition within a single work environment, optimizing activities and containing costs.
• Real-time Modification and Verification
  • Allows for immediate control over the design, drastically reducing time through real-time 3D cross-section views on planimetry. Automatic updates occur when parameters are changed, enabling instant result checking.
• M3 Framework Database Integration
  • Stores all design and information modeling data (geometries and data) in a centralized database, ensuring consistency between project data, information documents, and information models.
• As-Found Digital Reproduction
  • Facilitates the creation of a digital reproduction of the territory by acquiring and utilizing land information.
• Acquire Information:
  • Supports acquisition from topographic surveys, maps, GIS data, point clouds, and BIM models (IFC, LandXML).
• Point Clouds:
  • Easily handles one or more point clouds of any size with fast loading, display, drawing, and extraction functions.
• Terrain Modeling:
  • Automatically generates triangular slope models (DTM) and contour lines from surveyed terrain.
• As-Found Information Model:
  • Creates new objects from acquired data, defining geometries and information content for a complete model.
• Extensive Coordinate System Support
  • Supports a wide range of coordinate systems, including EPSG standards-based and localized systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency in design and information modeling.
• Intuitive Alignment Design
  • Provides a system with essential commands for natural creation of horizontal and vertical alignments.
• Horizontal Alignment:
  • Defines axes using straights, circular curves, clothoid, and parabolas, with automatic calculation of widenings and superelevations.
• Longitudinal Profile:
  • Automatically returns terrain profiles from various sources, allowing extraction and analysis of section elements and definition of project profiles.
• Precise Road Intersection Design
  • Enables the design of any type of road intersection (roundabouts, at-grade, complex interchanges) with speed and precision, maintaining control over results.
• Parametric Typical Sections & Objects
  • Allows creation and management of typical sections by assembling parametric objects, which can be customized and programmed using a scripting language.
• Automated Cross Section Generation
  • Extracts data from various sources (triangle models, point clouds, other axes, information models, cartography) and automatically inserts/manages project typical sections.
• Customizable Quantities Calculation
  • Enables extraction and calculation of quantities from different sources (sections, objects, surfaces, BIM entities) with user-defined processes, storing results in the information model.
• Policy Compliance & Verification
  • Checks project compliance with selected policies, verifies congruence of design parameters, generates visibility and speed diagrams, and calculates superelevations/widenings automatically.
• Non-linear 3D Design Capabilities
  • Goes beyond traditional design methods, allowing generation of complex 3D surfaces and solid compounds with SmartPolylines for interactive, precise 3D geometric modeling.
• Integrated Hydrological Analysis
  • Obtains valuable information for hydrographic and hydrological analysis, displaying slope vectors, valleys, ridges, and calculating basin filling volumes.
• Advanced Information Modeling (Requires SierraSoft BIM Modeling Extension)
  • Defines BIM models in detail, with information modeling occurring simultaneously with design based on customizable settings. Integrates buildingSMART's IDS and bSDD standards.
• Information Exchange & Multi-disciplinary Integration (Requires SierraSoft BIM Exchange Extension)
  • Facilitates sharing of project information in IFC (2x3, 4.1, 4.3) and LandXML formats for export to other software, and import of information models for integrated design and federated model management.
• Information Analysis & Verification (Requires SierraSoft BIM Checking Extension)
  • Enables analysis, verification, and validation of information content simultaneously with design and modeling activities to identify and resolve errors early, including interference detection.
• Automated Information Document Generation
  • Automatically generates various drawings and reports from project and information model data.
• Geometry Annotation:
  • Elements of axes with dimensions.
• Longitudinal Profile:
  • Profile elements with dimensions and annotations.
• Cross Sections:
  • Paginated sections with quantities, dimensions, and summaries.
• Project Planimetry:
  • Drawing with representation of all project elements.
• Prints:
  • Customizable printouts including alignment data, profiles, policy checks, quantities, and staking out data.
• Open Format Information Models
  • Creates customizable information models in open formats like IFC and LandXML, defining version, domain, spatial structure, elements, graphical representations, and properties according to BIM Execution Plan (BEP) specifications.
• Positioning & Construction Support
  • Generates reports, drawings, and models for topographic positioning and use by "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 import of various infrastructure models (railways, hydraulic works, bridges, tunnels, buildings) to create aggregate models.