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Engineering Design Innovations (EDI) was created to be a design and automation resource provider for civil engineering firms of all sizes. EDI provides management and support for the company’s foremost product, ASE Civil design software. By partnering with EDI and implementing ASE Civil, your firm will be at the forefront of innovative engineering design practices. EDI continually strives to introduce innovative products and services to their clients ranging from cost and time-saving software applications to outsourcing of specialized civil engineering services.

EDI PRESIDENT

NICK MERCHANT
Nick is the primary designer and creator of ASE Civil. He has over 20 years of experience designing, visualizing, drafting and managing Arizona subdivisions and commercial projects and has integrated that experience and knowledge into the application development of ASE. Nick has worked for a variety of civil engineers in Arizona and has designed many high-profile projects, such as Troon North in Scottsdale, Arrowhead Lakes and Pointe South Mountain. Nick attended California State University, Long Beach as an engineering major with a minor in computer science.

 

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September 2008
New buttons for automatically setting alignment definition preferences for either "Residential" or "Commercial" sites was added to the preferences dialog.

ASE Civil has completed and passed compatibility testing with AutoCAD, LDD and Civil 3D version 2009.

June 2008
A new menu option uses a dialog to import entities of selected Base Map Control systems.

Profile vertical curve data labels are now automaticaly placed directly below the associated dimension text label.

Grip-edited or moved vertical curve and true-length dimensions text positions are now memorized.

Extended plan labels predefined style modifications are now maintanined indefinitely.

Grade label precision will now reference the value set in the preferences dialog.

All label types on all alignments containing labels will now be updated when selecting the “Update All Alignments in Drawing” menu option.

Unneccessary command line prompts during plan label updating have been reduced.

May 2008
New assemblies were added.

A new menu option was added to aid in setting a target point for 3-D navigation.

Random 3-D road model refresh failure wa repaired.

The current layer is now unconitionally restored after data export cycles.

New alignments added using the "manual" option are now set current after successful definition.

Existing alignments will no longer be stationed after a new alignment is manually defined.

January 2008
Design Markers rotation has been updated to account for changes in the 2007 version of AutoCAD.

Extended plan label are now updated after surfaces are created or updated.

Surface management tools have been optimized for design data export cycles.

A new Plan Labels extension has been integrated. This new style-based system allows the user to create persistent, dynamic labels that conform to virtually any standard of appearance and may contain various combinations of ASE, LDD, Civil 3D or user data.

November 2007
Design Markers may now be selected by picking near a Marker instead of picking the Marker directly.

Flow Labels can now be configured to match generated profile grade label values exactly.

Profile label text edits may now be reverted to their original values.

Base Map Control tolerances command was added with project-based preference sharing.

Enhanced support for Pipeworks layers was added.

Profile Generator vertical scale factors now include “20”.

August 2007
New assemblies have been added to the 3-D road modeling library.

Base Map Control interpretation sensitivity is now user-adjustable.

Alignment and surface interface between ASE and Autodesk is now compatible with all versions of LDD or Civil 3D through 2008.

The user may now select any number of alignments for 3-D road model refreshing.

3-D road models now allow alignment-specific preference editing.

ASE now manages surface building and volume calculation for a total site surface definition.

 

      

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