Softree - Earthwork Optimization Add-on for RoadEng
Quickly Explore Feasible Alignments. Estimate & Reduce Your Earthwork Costs. Optimize your Road Design Process. Design roads, highways, and corridors that cost less to build. Adding optimization to your geometric design process allows you to deliver a lower-cost design. It also allows you to design faster.
Softree Optimal is a patented road (alignment) optimization add-on to RoadEng.
- Use the Path Explorer AI tool to quickly determine feasible corridor options on your terrain model. See optimized route options in minutes.
- Use Vertical Optimization to minimize cuts & fills and material movement costs, balancing your earthworks. Save 10-30% on your subgrade construction costs with road optimization.
Softree Optimal is a patented road (alignment) optimization add-on to RoadEng.
- Use the Path Explorer AI tool to quickly determine feasible corridor options on your terrain model. See optimized route options in minutes.
- Use Vertical Optimization to minimize cuts & fills and material movement costs, balancing your earthworks. Save 10-30% on your subgrade construction costs with road optimization.
Path Explorer AI
Path Explorer AI is a quick & easy, preliminary road locating tool inside of the Terrain module. It is built to find optimized routes between two points, A & B, and does so in minutes!
You can include constraints like max grade, min cut / max fill, no-go zones, high-cost zones, and crossing costs.
Optimize Your Road Alignment: Vertically and Horizontally
Consistently find the lowest-cost vertical alignment design that satisfies your design constraints & standards. Vertical optimization on its own typically brings down construction costs by 10-30% or more, depending on the project.
Horizontally optimization works within a defined range of IP movement. Resulting improvements over 50% cost reduction are not uncommon.
Design Time Costing
Built-in costing models allow you to calculate your alignment`s subgrade construction costs as you design. Quantitively compare multiple alignments and design variables based on construction cost. Know your cost & reduce it.
Optimized Material Movement Schedule
Our Opti-Haul graphic is a detailed plan for visually analyzing optimal material movement. Similar to a mass haul, but with more detail, it includes movement by material and by direction. Opti-Haul graphic (and data export) gives users a prescriptive plan to reduce their haulage costs and make construction jobs more efficient.
Define your design standards and constraints ensure your alignment automatically meets your criteria. Check the feasibility of proposed designs and constraints. View your constraints through the visual feedback of the profile window (including display of the vertical band).
Softree Optimal will look to internally balance your corridor. If not possible, Softree Optimal with leverage Smart Pits.
Define available pit locations capacities, distance from the alignment, and preparation cost and Optimal will select the most appropriate ones.
- Save engineering time
- Automate the design of your vertical alignment. Achieves a truly optimal solution, often in a matter of minutes.
- Quickly compare design variables
- Small changes can produce huge differences in cost. Manipulate design constraints and compare your options.
- Minimize earthwork costs
- Solves the complex 3D problem of minimizing excavation, embankment and haulage, given user-defined constraints.
- Costs as you design
- Manipulate an alignment or design constraints and see the associated cost difference in real-time.
- Compatible
- Independent of design software. Optimize an alignment created in any program. A direct interface is currently available for Civil 3D®.
Optimal Vertical Alignment
Consistently find the lowest-cost design that satisfies your design constraints & standards. Bring down construction costs by 10-30% or more, depending on the project.
Design Time Costing
Quantitively compare multiple alignments and design variables based on construction cost. Know your cost & reduce it.
Smart Pits Technology
Let Softree Optimal recommend the lowest cost borrow and waste pit locations. Define n pits, their capacity and distance from the alignment, and Softree Optimal will recommend which to use.
Optimal Haul Graphic
There`s a mass haul, and then there is the Opti-Haul. Opti-Haul graphic is a detailed plan for visually analyzing optimal material movement. Reduce your haulage costs and make construction jobs more efficient.
Feasibility Checker
Some projects are extremely constrained. Quickly check the feasibility of preliminary designs based on your design requirements.
Compatible Engineering Tool
Softree Optimal works with RoadEng, or it can integrate into other CAD or GIS-based engineering systems through DWG, DGN, or LandXML. A direct export interface is available for Civil 3D.
Automatically Balanced Mass Haul
Balance your road effortlessly. Track and report material movement. Easily account for excess or borrowed material.
Minimize Earthwork Costs
Find the lowest-cost solution. Small adjustments to a vertical alignment can produce huge differences in cut/fill volumes and materials moved.
Save engineering time
Automate the design of your vertical alignment. Achieves a truly optimal solution, often in a matter of minutes.
Quickly compare design variables
Small changes can produce huge differences in cost. Manipulate design constraints and compare your options.
Reduce earthwork costs
Typical savings of 10-30%. Solves the complex 3D problem of minimizing excavation, embankment and haulage.
Costs as you design
Manipulate an alignment or design constraints and see the associated cost difference in real-time.
Compatible
Independent of design software. Optimize an alignment created in any program. A direct interface is currently available for Civil 3D®.
Consistently find the lowest-cost design that satisfies your design constraints & standards. Bring down construction costs by 10-30% or more, depending on the project.
Quantitively compare multiple alignments and design variables based on construction cost. Know your cost & reduce it.
Horizontally optimize a corridor based on your vertical optimization constraints and a defined range of IP movement. Resulting improvements over 50% cost reduction are not uncommon.
There`s a mass haul, and then there is the Opti-Haul. Opti-Haul graphic is a detailed plan for visually analyzing optimal material movement. Reduce your haulage costs and make construction jobs more efficient.
Let Softree Optimal recommend the lowest cost borrow and waste pit locations. Define n pits, their capacity and distance from the alignment, and Softree Optimal will recommend which to use.
Softree Optimal works with RoadEng, or it can integrate into other CAD or GIS-based engineering systems through DWG, DGN, or LandXML. A direct export interface is available for Civil 3D.
Balance your road effortlessly. Track and report material movement. Easily account for excess or borrowed material.
Find the lowest-cost solution. Small adjustments to a vertical alignment can produce huge differences in cut/fill volumes and materials moved.
Some projects are extremely constrained. Quickly check the feasibility of preliminary designs based on your design requirements.
On mill and pave jobs, Softree Optimal can fit a design profile as close as possible to the existing profile while ensuring no finished pavement elevation is below the existing pavement elevation. This saves design time and decreases the asphalt treatment costs.