Civil Designer Software

[sammushi]

Does anyone know how to design a dual carriage way with civil designer software. Kindly list down steps to be followed.

 

[francesca]

1. Take a class in Civil Designer software.
2. Gather required data.
3. Design dual carriageway.

 

[beej67]

I might expand those steps a little.

1) Earn a college degree from an ABET accredited engineering program.
2) Pass your EIT exam.
3) Work for four years or more for a company that does civil design of divided highways.
4) Learn their design software in the process, and also accumulate design experience necessary to understand the details, pitfalls, etc of divided highways.
5) Pass your PE exam.
6) Design the divided highways.

At my last firm, we had the civil design process broken out into flowcharted steps, in detail, in a design guideline book based on critical path method. It was about 80 pages long, and that's for site design, not highway design.

This stuff isn't easy, there's no push-button software that will do it for you, and even if there was, you can't trust a computer programmer to have the vast experience necessary to engineer something. Computers are tools, not brains.

/end rant

Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East -

http://www.campbellcivil.com

 

[francesca]

Beej, Civil Designer is South African software, so your advice may be a bit OTT in this case.

 

[beej67]

Haha, I see.

Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East -

http://www.campbellcivil.com

 

[francesca]

Just to be clear, I mean getting a US PE license, not getting a license at all.

 

[brandonbw]

I have trouble seeing the need to have your EIT and/or PE for using design software.

B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil and Structural Engineering

http://bwengr.com

 

[francesca]

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/limage?siteID=123112&imageID=17462766&id=17462760

A PE would know that you can't build a bridge over a WWTP and keep the plant operational. (Also that you can't construct that bridge pier so close to the bank and road.)

But the sentiment is that you need to be a licensed engineer to design, not that you need to be one to run the software.