CADD Services

About CADD

The CADD Services team provides the NCDOT and its customers with a variety of services including (but not limited to) technical support, problem solving, training, and engineering automation.

CADD Services is continually striving to increase enterprise productivity and efficiency of the NCDOT through standardization and improvement of CADD related practices and procedures.

CADD Coordinators

Each unit or organization with the NCDOT should have a designated CADD Coordinator who represents them in CADD matters and also acts as a first contact for CADD support. To find out who the CADD Coordinator for your organization is please see this document:

• NCDOT CADD Cordinator Listing

Information on CADD Training for NCDOT employees can be found on the Portal.

Important Notices for Consultants

03.09.09 - Memo About CADD Pay Item Utility, from Bill Elam, PE - Hydraulics Engineer.

• View the complete memo

06.28.05 - It has been reported that when using the consultant's workspace, particularly the Location workspace, some dgnlib levels are missing. We have discovered a problem with the consultants workspace where the unit's configuration file is not read. We have made a change in the english and metric pcf files to fix this. We also added the following line to the consultant_mslocal.cfg file :

NCDOT_CONSULTANT_WORKSPACE = True (line 18 in the new file)

Please update your NCDOT_V8_CONFIG folder from our ftp site. Either use the new consultant_mslocal.cfg file or add line number 18 into your existing file. This should fix the missing levels problem.

Consultant Resources

For more Consultant Specific Information please visit the Consultant Specific Section of the Engineering Guidelines Page.

For more information about the text standards of the various plan producing units of the NCDOT, see the Roadway Design Text Standards page.

CADD Standards

Current NCDOT CADD Software Versions

Product	Version
MicroStation V8	08.05.02.55
GEOPAK 2004	08.08.02.73
Interplot client	08.05.02.76
UpdateWS	2007.11.6.0

The CADD standards information is designed for users of MicroStation & other CADD related software (i.e. DesCartes, Geopak, IPlot, etc.) on NCDOT projects. It is our intent to provide the latest information and enhancements to increase productivity and promote standardization throughout the NCDOT.

• Cogo Point Numbers
• File naming convention
• Unit Codes
• File Types

Workspaces

Information about the latest NCDOT Microstationworkspace for CADD users along with the basic components for use by our consultants.

• Workspace Help
• Consultant Workspace Help

The workspace update program (UpdateWS.exe) will allow the user to check and update any of the standard NCDOT Workspaces.

• Download UpdateWS program (.zip format)

Documents & Downloads

NCDOT Employees should check the CADD Portal for additional documents and downloads.

• CADD Pay Item Utility VBA Instructions
• Consultant_Workspace_Setup.zip - Contains information on how non-NCDOT users can setup NCDOT Workspaces. This document is provided only as a sample of alternative workspace setups.
• FolderCreator.zip - A .BAT batch file which will create the Standard NCDOT Directory Structure. Last updated: 11.20.09

Presentations

Download Presentations from NCDOT CADD personel. These are in the Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation (.pps) format.

• Engineering Technology- Past Present and Future - 07.29.08
• Understanding and using NCDOT Workspaces - 07.29.08

Newsletters

CADD Contact Information

Email the CADD Services Unit

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