AutoTURN is a comprehensive swept path analysis software developed by Transoft Solutions. It allows engineers, architects, and planners to simulate and analyze the turning paths and space requirements of various vehicles – from bicycles and cars to large trucks and specialized transport vehicles. By integrating directly into popular CAD platforms like AutoCAD® and Autodesk® Revit®, it enables users to verify that site layouts, intersections, loading bays, and road designs can safely accommodate necessary vehicle maneuvers, eliminating complex manual calculations.
For executives and decision-makers, investing in AutoTURN offers tangible benefits:
Boost Productivity & Reduce Errors: Automates complex swept path calculations and allows for rapid testing of multiple design scenarios, saving significant time and minimizing human error compared to manual methods.
Enhance Design Accuracy & Safety: Provides precise simulations, including 3D analysis (especially with AutoTURN Pro), to identify potential conflicts with terrain, structures, or overhead elements early in the design phase, preventing costly rework and enhancing safety.
Improve Collaboration & Approvals: Offers clear visualizations, 3D modeling, and reporting features that facilitate communication among stakeholders and can help streamline the approval process for project designs.
Support Digital Transformation (BIM/IDD): While a specialized analysis tool, AutoTURN integrates with BIM platforms like Revit, allowing vehicle path analysis to be incorporated into the digital model, supporting the data-rich environment crucial for IDD workflows and asset management preparation.
Ensure Compliance: Helps verify that designs meet geometric standards and guidelines for vehicle access and maneuvering, reducing the risk associated with non-compliance.
Extensive Vehicle Libraries: Includes vast libraries of standard design vehicles and manufacturer-specific vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, emergency vehicles, specialized transport, bicycles). Custom vehicles can also be created.
2D & 3D Swept Path Simulation: Generate precise vehicle turning paths and clearance envelopes in both 2D and 3D environments.
Advanced Analysis Tools: Includes features like 3D clearance analysis (detecting conflicts with ground, lateral, and overhead objects), sightline analysis, speed profile reports, multi-vehicle simulations, and specialized transport modeling (e.g., rear-steered axles, oversized loads).
CAD Integration: Works seamlessly within AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, Revit, BricsCAD, and other platforms.
Reporting & Visualization: Generate reports and visual outputs for review and presentation.
AutoTURN is essential for professionals involved in designing and reviewing projects where vehicle access and movement are critical factors. This includes:
Transportation & Civil Engineers: Designing roads, intersections, roundabouts, and highways.
Architects & Urban Planners: Planning site layouts, building access, parking facilities, loading docks, and public spaces.
Landscape Architects: Designing site features that interact with vehicle paths.
Project Managers & Consultants: Overseeing design development and ensuring compliance.
BIM Managers/Coordinators: Integrating specialized analysis into the overall digital project model.
The most advanced vehicle swept path analysis and turning simulation software.
While not a full BIM authoring tool itself, AutoTURN provides critical vehicle access data that enriches your BIM model. This data supports clash detection, site logistics planning, and ensures designs comply with accessibility standards, contributing vital information to the overall IDD process mandated by BCA for larger projects.
By automating complex and time-consuming manual calculations or drafting methods for swept path analysis, AutoTURN significantly speeds up the design and review process. Teams can explore more options faster, catch errors earlier (reducing costly changes during construction), and improve overall design quality, leading to substantial time savings and a strong return on investment through increased efficiency and risk mitigation.
For experienced CAD users, the learning curve for core AutoTURN functions is generally considered manageable. The integration within platforms like AutoCAD or Revit means users work within a known environment.
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