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Civil Site Design V26.21 Readme

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

Subscription customers can obtain their V26 license keys, and manage their user access and licenses, directly from the Civil Survey Applications Customer Portal:

CUSTOMER CENTRE

  • 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
    • 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

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.