GuidSIGN - Features and Compatibility
 Quick Sign Design Features | - Create guide signs using a graphic library of custom or included templates based on national standards
- Design street signs with a graphic library of custom or included templates based on national standards
- Multiple street signs can be generated from a selected template and added list of names and block numbers
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| Custom Object Creation | - Create custom panel styles or custom templates to meet state specific standards for sign design
- Create custom arrows using a set of user-defined dimensions and save them into a library for future use
- Create a custom library of completed signs that can be used in planning and detailed drawings
- Multiple custom libraries (i.e. symbols, exit panels, arrows, etc) now supported with GuidSIGN placement tools
- Over 60 editable design parameters for complete custom flexibility
- Create customized symbols, exit panels, and shields
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| Enhanced Sign Design Features | - Use built-in destination, place, or street name lookup feature to match against custom or standard lists of geographic features
- 4 standard arrow types supported (Straight, 45° Turn, 90° Turn, Custom Turn)
- update panel data without changing object placement or panel dimensions
- Drag and drop object placement from graphical libraries conforming to panel style rules for object spacing
- Update and edit previously placed panels and text
- Automatic updating of panel size and dimensions based on placed objects and panel style rules
- Create signs conforming to MUTCD guide sign standards for panel sizes, colors, borders (including widths, thickness and insets), margins, fonts, letter sizing and spacing, line spacing and corner radius
- Moving and snapping capabilities with option to snap objects (i.e. place names, symbols, shields, etc.) to margins, panels, and other objects based on standard spacing requirements. Snap placement can also be switched off to place customized objects within the panel
- Place horizontal and vertical dividers and short lines within the panel
- Signs can be stored in proprietary exchange file format (GSX) allowing signs created with any version of GuidSIGN 4 and newer to be read and edited using GuidSIGN in any platform (AutoCAD, MicroStation, or GuidSIGN for Windows)
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| Library of Standard Styles and Formats for Signs and Panels | - Complete federal MUTCD symbols library
- Additional state route shield and route marker libraries
- Panel styles support various sign designations for standard road classifications (i.e. low volume, conventional, expressway, and freeway)
- Panel styles include exit, left exit, destination, informational, construction, regulatory and warning
- Symbols including multiple arrow types, recreational/cultural interest, motorist service
- Colors available include white, yellow, green, orange, blue, black, brown and red
- Shapes include: rectangle, diamond, angled, chevron
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| Highway Text Fonts | - Align string components horizontally in reference to other strings within the panel.
- Highway fonts include: B, C, D, E, and EM
- Compatibility with all TrueType® fonts
- Compatibility with ClearviewHwy® font from Terminal Design Inc.
- Compatibility with FHWA 2000 Series fonts
- Special characters such as "!" "$" "#" etc.
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| WYDIWYG (What You Design Is What You Get) Visualization Tools | - Display dimensions for border insets, text string lengths, spacing, panel size, font size, and more
- Display modes show signs in a variety of ways including black and white, color, or outline
- Create, display, and save multiple signs in one drawing file
- Select from a library of drawing sheets and reports or customize your own
- Sign details include title block, sign layout, letter and symbol location tables
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| Export Sign for Cutter | - Proprietary Export Sign for Cutter feature enables the selection of components of a sign, compressing the spacing between objects to save material, and export as a DXF file – to be read by industry standard sign cutting applications (i.e. SignLAB, FlexiSIGN, Gerber OMEGA, etc)
- Exported objects can be separated into color dependant files for cutting
- Output files can be formatted to fit in a specified material width
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| Practical End User Features | - Apply global dimensioning settings (color, scale, style, dimension type and location)
- Control the display of usability hints presented during design operations
- Set units convention (imperial and metric) and MUTCD version for designs
- Resizable dialogue with grid showing thumbnail previews of objects (i.e. symbols, shields, objects, etc)
- Display shield information (i.e. source, appropriate usage) in tool tip or in information box
- Choose the display of GuidSIGN generated content (outline, color and blank & white filled)
- Interactive tutorials with step-by-step instructions throughout the entire design process
- Graphic-driven and easy to understand dialogue boxes
- Compatibility with custom units and color tables in MicroStation
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| Advanced Reporting Capabilities | - Select standard or regional specific drawing sheets that can be placed around one or more signs
- Select standard or regional fabrication reports and dimension options that can be placed around one or more signs
- Sign data can be exported to common text documents
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| License Server | - Checkout GuidSIGN network seats to laptops for field work or client presentations
- Communication through TCP/IP to network service eliminates need to have user write access to license server directory
- Administration tool allows products to be added / authorized to the license server outside of the GuidSIGN application
- Administration tool allows managing multiple seats on a network
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| Published Standards and Sources | USA - Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 2003 Edition
- Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 1988 Edition
- Standard Alphabets For Highway Signs and Pavement Markings, 2000
- Standard Highway Signs, 2004
- Standard Highway Signs, 1979
| | Canada - Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada, 2002
- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada, 1998
| California - Traffic Manual, 1993
- California Style Fonts
| | Australia - Road Sign Specifications
- Standard Alphabets for Road Signs
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| Compatibility | - Platform Requirements:
AutoCAD® 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 series of products (except AutoCAD LT)
MicroStation® V8.1, V8 2004 (V8.5), XM, V8i
System Requirements:
Full support for 64-bit operating systems
Workstation: Windows® 2000, XP, Vista, Windows® 7
Network: Windows® Server 2000, 2003, 2008
2 - way integration means that signs designed with any version (i.e. GuidSIGN for MicroStation, AutoCAD or Windows) can be transferred, read and modified seamlessly among versions
Languages Available:
English
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