Canal and River Engineering WorksDesign Software

Version 2015

Aquaterra 2015Canal and River Engineering Works Design Software

Aquaterra is a professional software for canal and river engi-neering design. It is a comprehensive, full featured yet easy to use design solution.

Aquaterra provides a user with the commands and tools to support the entire design process; from the initial input of survey data to complex 3D river/canal models with analysis tools, to documenta-tion and publishing features. It includes functionality for DTM, align-ments, profiles, sections, modeling and hydraulic computations. It can easily handle large projects with alignment lengths of several hundred kilometers.

Aquaterra assists the user in preparation of professional drawings in-cluding technical documentation such as volume calculation reports. The 3D model environment enables the user to apply various types of design analyses to the design including flooding simulations, river flow and more.

Aquaterra supports all the most widely used hydraulic models (MIKE 11, MIKE 21, HEC-RAS...) and many country specific design stand-ards as well.

Aquaterra has been localized and used in several countries for projects ranging from small streams and torrents to big irrigation schemes with canals of several hundred kilometers in length:

• River/Channel design.

• Irrigation systems.

• River channel and bank design for flood analysis.

• Dam reservoir design.

Used for Canal and River Engineering Works Design

Supported CAD platforms

AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D 2015 to 2010; BricsCAD V14 to V12

Supported languages

English, German, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

Product Internet page

www.aquaterra-software.com www.cgsplus.com

Important new features• Improved design workflow with a new ribbon concept.

• You can now integrate hydro engineering design data with rail (Ferrovia) and road designs (Plateia).

• Export of geometry to Google Earth.

• Improved “Zoom to point” facilitates faster design.

CGS Infrastructure Suite“CGS Infrastructure Suite” integrates our software solutions for the design of roads, railways, river engineering works and power lines, enabling users to design different infrastructure objects within one project, with a single software solution.

Aquaterra Advantagesand tools. With intelligent Best Fit algorithms you can design align-ments automatically based on sur-veyed points.

Unique cross-section design concept

The “Design in one, draw in sever-al cross-sections” concept allows efficient processing and editing of cross-sections. Different levels of automation allow for the fast design of segments with similar cross-sections as well as handling the cross-sections where the con-ditions change frequently. Each cross-section can be treated indi-vidually with interactive drafting and editing commands.

Native CAD application

Aquaterra is fully integrated into the CAD environment. All the data are stored in one or more DWG files. The drawings can be modified with CAD commands at any design stage giving you complete flexibility in the design process.

Modular structure

Aquaterra has a modular structure. Modules can be installed separately or in any combination. In conjunc-tion with network licensing options (floating modules and floating packages) Aquaterra corporate in-stallation can be specifically tailored for each customer.

CAD platform choice

Aquaterra can be installed on top of AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Au-toCAD Map 3D or BricsCAD, where the functionality always remains the same. In the future additional CAD platforms will be supported. This CAD platform choice gives Aqua-terra customers the possibility to optimize their “Cost of ownership” without sacrificing function abili-ties.

Intuitive workflow

The Aquaterra workflow consist-ently follows standard civil engi-neering river or channel design processes used in Europe, which intuitively leads the designer from the start to the successful finish of the project.

Easy to learn and use

Well-structured ribbons, menus and simple dialogues enable fast learning for the first time user while the toolbox and command line op-tions are provided for the conveni-ence of experienced users.

Handling of large data sets

Aquaterra is capable of handling large projects with very long align-ments and thousands of cross-sec-tions within seconds. You can easily work on alignment changes with-out the need to cut it into smaller pieces.

Support for local design standards

Aquaterra is available in several languages and supports country specific drawing layouts. Aquaterra customers are entitled to use any country-specific version of the soft-ware in case of designing projects for foreign countries.

Team-work Support

River or channel regulation pro-jects can be very efficiently divided among multiple team members who can then work simultaneous-ly. Projects can be split into layout & horizontal alignment drawings, longitudinal-sections drawings and cross-sections drawings.

Alignments design tools “par excellence”

Aquaterra contains powerful align-ment design and editing methods

• Create the longitudinal axis of a river or channel from a polyline.

• Create cross axis in multiple ways.

• Labeling.

• Drape sections to 3D using points or surface.

• Define river banks and other lines along the axis.

• Transfer point/lines from sections into plan view or 3D.

• Axes-related utilities.

Longitudinal SectionsThis module contains the com-mands processing profiles of rivers and canals:

• Plot existing ground or channel profile.

• Insert left and right banks from cross sections or 3D model.

Layout This module is comprised of commands for processing input data and drafting in plan view:

• Manipulation of survey points and connections.

• Insert and edit topographic and other symbols.

• Raster images manager.

• Hatch/color embankments.

• 2D-3D conversions.

• Calculations and interpolations.

• Utilities for dimensioning and pro-cessing of plan view.

AxesIn this module the user finds powerful commands for manip-ulating longitudinal and cross axes:

• Insert one or more water surfaces.

• Design vertical alignment of a new channel bottom parametri-cally/graphically.

• Customize tabular part of the pro-file.

• Split single longitudinal section into several frames for plotting on one or more sheets.

• Several tools for drawing and in-serting of geometric elements, dimensions lines etc.

Cross-sectionsThis module contains the tools needed for designing and pro-cessing sections:

• Plot existing ground and channel sections.

• Create a new flow section – auto-matically (with the simple hydrau-lic calculator), semi-automatically or interactively.

• Editing, labeling, dimensioning of cross-sections.

• Define banks automatically or interactively, or insert from 3D model.

• Insert 1D, 2D or combined water surfaces.

• Calculate takeoff quantities.

• Several tools for processing (add blocks, dimensions, zoom sec-tions…).

• Cross-sections plan production tools.

Hydraulic Interfaces Aquaterra’s hydraulic interfac-es represent an efficient bridge

between the design power of Aquaterra and industry stand-ard hydrodynamic simulation engines.

HEC-RAS interface:

• Prepare the HEC-RAS geometric input file based on cross-sections, bank and Manning coefficient data.

• Transfer the resulting water levels back to Aquaterra for displaying in cross-sections, longitudinal sec-tions and layout.

• Transfer geometry data from HEC-RAS to Aquaterra.

MIKE 11 interface:

• Export geometric data (stations and geometry of the cross-sec-tions, channel banks and levees)

from Aquaterra to MIKE 11 cross -section file.

• Read the MIKE 11 result files and import the following data back to Aquaterra: water levels, cross-sec-tions, longitudinal sections, bank and levee positions and axes.

MIKE 21 interface:

• Aquaterra connects AutoCAD Civil 3D with the most widely used 2D hydrodynamic computation pro-gram.

• Interactively create and edit nu-merical grid.

• Export AutoCAD Civil 3D surfaces to MIKE 21 bathymetry (dfs1 for-mat).

• Import velocity or flow field and scalar fields (depth, water surface, flow magnitude) from MIKE 21 results.

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Phone: +386 1 530 11 00Fax: +386 1 530 11 32

Internet: www.cgsplus.come-mail: info@cgsplus.si

About CGS plusCGS plus is an established European developer in the field of transportation, infrastructure and AEC. Since 1990, CGS plus has been developing and pro-viding a family of professional high-end civil engineering applications as well as Civil 3D and Revit software tools for civil engineers and architects.

CGS plus software solutions are used every day by more than 3.000 customers in 30 countries all over the globe.

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