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Civil Designer

by Civil Designer · #69 of 79 in 3D CAD Software

Free trial

Plans and prices

PlanPriceBilled
Roads & Highway Design——
Clean Water Distribution——
Surface Runoff Design——
Foul Water Networks——
Enterprise Suite——
Specialised Design Package——

From Civil Designer's own pricing page, checked 22 Sept 2026. Every plan

What the maker publishes

BIM interoperability
Civil Designer supports IFC 4.3 and lets users choose which model elements to share through a common data environment. source
CAD integrations
The CAD module supports BIM IFC integration and Google Earth integration with KML file output. source
Cloud collaboration
Yes source
Company history
Civil Designer says its origins date to 1989 and its CEO recounts that the project that became Civil Designer began by 1997. source
Design Centre
The Design Centre combines bespoke CAD, aerial image handling and digital terrain modelling to produce final drawings. source
File import and export
DWG, DXF, DGN, LandXML, IFC, PDF, KML, CSV, Excel, TIFF DEM, ASCII, Shapefile source
Free plan
No source
Headquarters
Cape Town, South Africa source
Intended users
The company describes its software as being for civil infrastructure design professionals and says its staff include engineering design industry professionals. source
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. source
Platform requirements
The trial is available for Windows desktop; the listed minimum and recommended operating system is Windows 11 (64-bit). source
Purpose
Civil Designer is an integrated suite for designing civil infrastructure including earthworks, roads, highways, stormwater, wastewater and potable water supply. source
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. source
Stormwater analysis
The Storm module supports Illudas, Rational, Wallingford and SWMM models for runoff and drainage analysis. source
Support
Purchases include technical support, and the Help Desk says it does not charge per support hour. source
Supported platforms
Windows desktop source
Terrain inputs
Survey and terrain workflows can import 3D drawing entities, TIFF DEM, Lidar surveys, LandXML or ASCII files. source
Water network integrations
The Water module can link to external consumption and tariff data tables. source