Civil Designer
civildesigner.com
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Civil Designer is an integrated suite for designing civil infrastructure including earthworks, roads, highways, stormwater, wastewater and potable water supply.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Intended users
- The company describes its software as being for civil infrastructure design professionals and says its staff include engineering design industry professionals.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Free plan
- NoRead 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Support
- Purchases include technical support, and the Help Desk says it does not charge per support hour.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, South AfricaRead 28 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
- BIM interoperability
- Civil Designer supports IFC 4.3 and lets users choose which model elements to share through a common data environment.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- CAD integrations
- The CAD module supports BIM IFC integration and Google Earth integration with KML file output.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Cloud collaboration
- YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Company history
- Civil Designer says its origins date to 1989 and its CEO recounts that the project that became Civil Designer began by 1997.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Design Centre
- The Design Centre combines bespoke CAD, aerial image handling and digital terrain modelling to produce final drawings.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- File import and export
- DWG, DXF, DGN, LandXML, IFC, PDF, KML, CSV, Excel, TIFF DEM, ASCII, ShapefileRead 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Modular licensing
- Customers can choose subscription, lifetime licensing with renewable support or modular purchasing, and specialised module licenses can be shared when they are not in simultaneous use.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Platform requirements
- The trial is available for Windows desktop; the listed minimum and recommended operating system is Windows 11 (64-bit).Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Road design
- The Roads module supports geometric design and rehabilitation of highways and urban or rural roads, including junction design, safety analysis and quantity measurement.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Stormwater analysis
- The Storm module supports Illudas, Rational, Wallingford and SWMM models for runoff and drainage analysis.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Supported platforms
- Windows desktopRead 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Terrain inputs
- Survey and terrain workflows can import 3D drawing entities, TIFF DEM, Lidar surveys, LandXML or ASCII files.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
- Water network integrations
- The Water module can link to external consumption and tariff data tables.Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
Plans and prices
Roads & Highway Design Price not published Roads and highway design module Read 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
Clean Water Distribution Price not published Clean water network design module Read 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
Surface Runoff Design Price not published Surface runoff and stormwater design module Read 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
Foul Water Networks Price not published Foul-water network design module Read 22 Sep 2026 · civildesigner.com
Enterprise Suite Priced on request Roads · Survey & Terrain · Storm · Sewer · Water · Signage · Turn · CAD & Rendering · team size affects price Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
Specialised Design Package Priced on request Design Centre platform module · multi-user licensing · technical support · current upgrades Read 11 Oct 2026 · civildesigner.com
Where Specifiction places it
- 3D CAD Software#65 of 797.3
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