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Webinar: Path Explorer AI - Concepts & Workflows

Updated July 22, 2024


This article applies to:
  • RoadEng Civil
  • Softree Optimal

In this webinar, we demonstrated one of our favorite new features from the recently released Version 11.  Path Explorer AI is a quick & easy, preliminary road-locating tool inside of the Terrain module. It is built to find optimized routes between two points, A & B, and does so in minutes!

In the webinar, we discussed how: 
-Path Explorer works to minimize earthwork and surfacing costs
-you can include constraints like max grade,  min cut / max fill, no-go zones, high-cost zones
-you can quickly review the optimized alignment options
-how you can quickly convert them into full geometric road designs.

We stepped through 4 examples and discussed workflows for leveraging this game-changing, efficiency-driving tool.
- Steep ground, resource road example
- Flat ground, a wetland example
- Steep & complicated, another resource road example
- Working with control points, a windfarm design example