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

RE: Civil Designer Software

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

RE: Civil Designer Software

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

RE: Civil Designer Software

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

RE: Civil Designer Software

Haha, I see.   

Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East - http://www.campbellcivil.com

RE: Civil Designer Software

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

RE: Civil Designer Software

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

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