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In 1989 Knowledge Base started with a vision, two developers and a small office in Cape Town. These were the humble beginnings of a dedicated team of professionals who persevered to develop one of the world’s most progressive suites of civil engineering infrastructure design packages. Today, over 20 years later, we are proud to be the leading developer and supplier of completely integrated software solutions for the design and engineering industries. The Knowledge Base Team is made up of professionals who have spent many years within the engineering and design industries. We are therefore in the ideal position to capitalise on this hands on knowledge and help you experience the power of design and enable you to complete your projects on time, every time.

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CIVIL DESIGNER
A Truly Integrated Design Platform

Use CIVIL DESIGNER for all your civil engineering infrastructure design and planning projects. Its consistent interface allows you to work more quickly and intuitively, and the specialized and fully integrated platform of design modules, combine to form an interactive data gathering, drawing, surface modeling and design system for civil engineers and technicians.

It offers you the benefits of working in a visual design environment with a seamless interaction between the design modules for even greater productivity. Civil Designer will handle the whole process from initial field work through digital terrain model creation and editing, contour generation, bulk earthworks, infrastructure design, draughting and plotting. The program consists of the following specialised modules:


The program is a complete design environment & creates your final drawings for you. The industrial-strength CAD engine allows you to display backdrop drawings or bitmaps with ease, and uses CAD functions to define the design elements. In addition, the program supports multiple large bitmaps such as aerial survey photographs or orthophotos as backdrops. Even high level presentations are handled with ease, as bitmaps, 3D views and 3D drive through's give you the edge on your competition.

With CIVIL DESIGNER all your design tasks will be faster and easier, and you will be able to do so much more than before.

  
ALLYCAD
The Industrial 2D/3D CAD With Specialised Toolkits

Make AllyCAD your first choice for design. Its intuitive functionality has earned it the reputation as one of the most user-friendly packages on the market. AllyCAD places all the draughting functionality that you need at your fingertips, allowing you to design the way you want to. Its industrial strength and specialized toolkits ensure that previously time consuming tasks, now take seconds to complete. The following embedded toolkits come with AllyCAD:





AllyCAD 2010 has been rewritten to allow for both 2D and 3D draughting and is even faster and stronger than AllyCAD 3.6. If you want to take your product design to the next level and are thinking of switching to 3D, you will be happy to know that AllyCAD offers perspective viewports, 3D views and rendering.

When it comes to compatibility, Knowledge Base is a founding member of the Open Design Alliance (ODA) along with Bentley, ESRI, Oracle, Siemens, ZWCAD, Infrasoft, IntelliCAD and many others. AllyCAD therefore fully supports the reading and writing of AutoCAD's DWG format, DXF, Caddie CEX, Arcview SHP and ASCII files. This gives you the flexibility to move between drawings without having to worry about incompatibilities and data exchange problems. In addition to this, AllyCAD handles JPG, TIFF and huge BMP files with ease and also supports TFW, LOG and HGR geo-referenced bitmaps.

AllyCAD places all the draughting functionality that you need at your fingertips, allowing you to design the way you want to!

 
 

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