Civil Designer
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Civil Designer, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Civil Designer's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Roads & Highway Design | — | Roads and highway design module |
| Clean Water Distribution | — | Clean water network design module |
| Surface Runoff Design | — | Surface runoff and stormwater design module |
| Foul Water Networks | — | Foul-water network design module |
| Enterprise Suite | Priced on request | Roads · Survey & Terrain · Storm · Sewer · Water · Signage · Turn · CAD & Rendering · team size affects price |
| Specialised Design Package | Priced on request | Design Centre platform module · multi-user licensing · technical support · current upgrades |
The facts
Each one read from Civil Designer's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- BIM interoperability
- Civil Designer supports IFC 4.3 and lets users choose which model elements to share through a common data environment.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CAD integrations
- The CAD module supports BIM IFC integration and Google Earth integration with KML file output.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Cloud collaboration
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Design Centre
- The Design Centre combines bespoke CAD, aerial image handling and digital terrain modelling to produce final drawings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File import and export
- DWG, DXF, DGN, LandXML, IFC, PDF, KML, CSV, Excel, TIFF DEM, ASCII, Shapefilechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- The company describes its software as being for civil infrastructure design professionals and says its staff include engineering design industry professionals.checked 11 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Civil Designer is an integrated suite for designing civil infrastructure including earthworks, roads, highways, stormwater, wastewater and potable water supply.checked 11 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Stormwater analysis
- The Storm module supports Illudas, Rational, Wallingford and SWMM models for runoff and drainage analysis.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Purchases include technical support, and the Help Desk says it does not charge per support hour.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Terrain inputs
- Survey and terrain workflows can import 3D drawing entities, TIFF DEM, Lidar surveys, LandXML or ASCII files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Water network integrations
- The Water module can link to external consumption and tariff data tables.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Civil Designer says its origins date to 1989 and its CEO recounts that the project that became Civil Designer began by 1997.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, South Africachecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform requirements
- The trial is available for Windows desktop; the listed minimum and recommended operating system is Windows 11 (64-bit).checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows desktopchecked 22 Sep 2026
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