Civil Site Design is available for:
- AutoCAD 2025 to AutoCAD 2026
- Civil 3D 2025 to Civil 3D 2026
- BricsCAD V26
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
CIVIL SITE DESIGN
You will need a valid subscription or maintenance of Civil Site Design to update to V26.
Following installation, operation of the software should automatically switch your current V25 license to V26 (if you have a current Civil Site Design subscription/maintenance.
Installation and Licensing Guides
- Civil Site Design – Installation and Licensing Guide.
- Civil Site Design Plus – Installation and Licensing Guide.
Subscription customers can obtain their V26 license keys, and manage their user access and licenses, directly from the Civil Survey Applications Customer Portal:
- This is a free, standalone application providing tools to create and manage language translations applying to Civil Site Design
- If you are interested in providing translation services please contact us.
V26.21 Software Changes
New Features:
- Licensing
- Added new Advanced Tools form to the Settings tab that allows diagnostic tests to be run
- DLL reference checker for all loaded DLLs
- Network connection test for all needed URLs
- External link validator for all external URLs that are requested from the server
- DLL reference checker for all loaded DLLs
- Added more detailed popups for common issues with links to Helpdesk articles to solve
- All external URLs used in the software are now retrieved using redirects, prevents future hardcoded URL issues
- Added extra button links to the Installation Guide on both the Activation and First Launch screens
- Added support for multiple activation strings to be used with the deployment command line parameter
- Added new Advanced Tools form to the Settings tab that allows diagnostic tests to be run
Improvements:
- Project Storage – Temp Folder document management
- We have improved data management and performance for storage of data versions when Project Storage is enabled.
- Licensing
- Added startup check for required DLLs, checks conflicts with other plugins
- Updated Settings tab layout to support more settings/buttons
- Changed user account password byte storage to account for language issues
- Exceptions with WMI PC identification now result in a randomised computer ID
- Fixed issues with automatic deployment file reading
Bug Fixes:
- Auto Ease Form
- Fixed a bug in BricsCAD resulting in an error message displaying when trying to open the Auto Ease form from the Resample String command.
- Subgrade Model Manager
- Fixed an issue with the inclusion of Grading strings in Subgrade Model Manager. Gradings Strings were being removed and recreated when the subgrade model was rebuilt.
- When a Subgrade Model is created and edits are immediately applied, these are now being stored correctly when the Subgrade Model Manager form is closed.