Designed specifically for the demands of subdivision and urban development, SurvaCAD Urban Design gives town planners, urban designers and development consultants a more efficient way to prepare lot layouts, concept plans and other land development drawings.
The early stages of subdivision design can be highly iterative. Designers often need to create, adjust and test multiple layout options while balancing site constraints, planning requirements and project objectives. Much of this work has traditionally relied on manual drafting and repetitive CAD processes, making it time-consuming to explore different options and quickly understand what is achievable.
SurvaCAD Urban Design has been developed to address this challenge, bringing purpose-built tools and automated workflows to an area of the land development process where efficiency can make a significant difference.
The new solution enables users to efficiently prepare concept plans, subdivision layouts, site plans and a wide range of other planning and development drawings. By automating repetitive drafting tasks and streamlining common workflows, SurvaCAD Urban Design helps users spend less time on manual processes and more time evaluating design options and making informed decisions.
“Urban design is an area where there is a huge opportunity to remove repetitive manual work and give designers more time to focus on the design itself,” said Adam Sokac, CEO of SurvaCAD.
“We’ve taken the same philosophy that has shaped SurvaCAD for more than 35 years, purpose-built tools, practical automation and a strong understanding of how professionals actually work and applied it to the urban design process.
“The result is a solution that helps users test ideas faster, make informed design decisions and ultimately get to a better outcome more efficiently.”
purpose-built for the way land development professionals work
Unlike generic CAD functionality, SurvaCAD Urban Design has been developed around the specific requirements of professionals working across subdivision and urban development.
The solution brings together tools designed to support the practical realities of land development design, helping users move from initial concepts through to professionally presented plans while maintaining consistency throughout the process.
This focus on practical automation is central to the SurvaCAD approach. Rather than simply adding more functionality, the platform is designed to address the repetitive tasks and workflow challenges that professionals encounter in their day-to-day work.
expanding the survacad platform
The launch of SurvaCAD Urban Design represents a significant expansion of the SurvaCAD platform, which has traditionally focused on purpose-built technology for cadastral survey drafting.
The move into urban design builds on SurvaCAD’s experience developing specialised software for the surveying profession and extends that approach further into the land development workflow. With SurvaCAD Urban Design, the focus is not on replacing the expertise of planners and designers, but on giving them better tools to apply that expertise.
As SurvaCAD continues to expand its platform, the focus remains on developing practical technology that solves real problems for the people who design, plan and deliver the built environment.