What’s New in Road Estimator 6.0?
Faster Drawing engine
Road Estimator 6.0 boasts of a much powerful and enhanced core drawing engine which means your
outputs are generated much faster than was earlier required. Saving a project and opening the project
takes lesser amount of time and taking outputs is also much quicker. We have overhauled the internal
drawing engine and memory management completely to achieve this.
MRU
Most recently used road estimator project files are now listed in the file menu for easy access and
opening and upto last 9 open projects are listed.
New from Template
Now you can have a quick start when you begin your project with the new option for New from
Template wizard. You can browse through various types of cross section templates for road and airport
project. Once you select a template a blank project is created for you with all the pavement layers
definitions, display settings, template settings, element settings & all you have to do is get your original
& design data into the project and your cross section will be ready. You also have the option to save a
road estimator project file as a template file which can be re‐used later.
AutoRecovery
In the uneventful situation where you were working on a project and there system failure, do not panic
from now on. With the Auto‐recovery option of Road Estimator 6.0 you can get your project back and
continue as if nothing has happened. You can customize your settings for auto save time so that Road
Estimator keeps backing up your project as you work. Use command AST to change your auto save
timings.
Slide Show
To enhance user experience and browse through various cross sections a new ‘Play and Pause’ option
tool has been added in the main screen. This tool is extremely useful to review lot of chainages easily.
Once Play option is used, cross section view is shown as slide show. You can Pause the slide show and
perform changes and again continue from the same position.
Dynamic Recalculation
When changes were made in design or OGL which may include toe modification, pavement layer
changes or any other operation with elements, a complete re‐processing of data was necessary to view
the changes and update the quantities accordingly. This is a thing of past with the new feature for
Dynamic Update of drawing in Road Estimator 6.0. Now you can see your changes immediately with
immediate calculation of toe, application of pavement layers & elements etc.
Multi Sheet CrossSection View
To enhance & speed up the overall delivery time from concept to finish, Multi sheet cross‐section view
option is added. This feature gives you greater control on output generation. With this feature, sheet
template can be fixed and layout editing can be done in a single view. You can easily print all the sheets
or save the sheets in other drawing formats with a just a single click of button. It also gives you flexibility
to print number of copies & perform gray scale printing automatically. From now on, you do not have to
spend your valuable time printing your cross sections as Road Estimator 6.0 will do it remotely &
silently.
Enhancement in OGL sheet
Paste Un‐limited data from ExcelTM to OGL Sheet: In earlier versions of Road Estimator when you copied
more than 16K rows of data and pasted it in Road Estimator, data upto only 16K rows were only pasted.
So there was only one way to get this data in project, using file import option. With Road Estimator 6.0
this is a thing of past. Using Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the data and all rows copied from ExcelTM will be
pasted in Road Estimator’s OGL sheet.
Filter OGL Data based on chainage: It is sometimes necessary to have only data for chainage which fall
in a particular interval. With the new Filter option in OGL screen, you can simply specify the interval at
which data is required and road estimator will keep only the data falling in specified interval and remove
the rest.
Selective chainage: It is sometimes necessary to keep data for selective chainages. With the new option
for selective chainage you can just enter the chainages required and the rest of the OGL not
corresponding to chainages mentioned will be removed automatically. Use Ctrl+F11 key to activate this
option in OGL screen.
Height based scarification
There are situations when scarification is performed only if the design level and original ground level
difference exceeds a certain height. Up till now there was no easy way out and we needed to identify
the chainages where height difference criteria matches and used to scarify individual chainages.
Now a new feature has been added in Scarification screen: Conditional scarification which takes into
account the height difference criteria automatically and scarifies only those chainages which meet this
criterion.
Mass Haul Diagram
To enhance your analysis experience, mass haul diagram has been added as a standard feature in Road
Estimator 6.0. Mass hauls can be generated as per your user defined specification of reference quantity.
The report and diagram can be directly printed or saved to other formats. You can also add additional
comments, tags, progress status in the diagram.
Single Side Slope
In Road Estimator Side Slope definition has various options such as berm condition based on height,
berm top slope etc. which can be applied to individual chainages. In certain case, such definitions are
not necessary as single side slope is used. To simplify the process, a new feature to define slope directly
for corresponding chainage has been added in Road Estimator 6.0. With this feature you can directly
enter slope value with prefix #.
Crossings
Crossing such as culvert, bridge, intersections have different way of quantification and should not be
included in general road quantities. They can now be easily accommodated in report generation for
quantities. This saves a lot of time in removing the quantities individually for specific chainages and re‐
calculation for corresponding chainages are done automatically.
Active Depth Display
You can easily track the difference in level between selected lines in cross section and longitudinal
profile with the new feature for active depth display. This tool is very useful for cross checking, design
verification, compensation for quantities and other analysis. This is a dynamic tool which displays the
level difference as you move your cursor along the lines. Use command ADP to use this feature.
Active change in FRL & Side Slope
Like OGL now active change option has been extended to FRL & Side Slopes. So you can simply drag FRL
location or toe location and change on screen. Combined with the active change option these changes
are reflected immediately on your screen.
