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Lima VVA Beta Version: 5.0.3 Platform: 64-bit Windows Languages: English, Norwegian

Lima VVA is a lightweight Windows application for road design and earthworks.

It is suitable for small to medium projects, where ease-of-use, low cost and quick results are paramount. It lets the user design the road interactively, while the geometry and earthwork quantities are automatically calculated in the background.

By manipulating the construction parameters, other earthworks can be calculated, such as ditches, embankments, land fills, building sites and sea walls — in short, anything suitable for the cross-section method.

The program produces high quality drawings, reports, and construction data for the design. These results can be exported to other software and systems such as office, CAD and GIS applications, surveying equipment, and systems for automated machine control.

• Latest version
• LTS version (Norwegian only)
• Licence
• Donations

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Latest version

Version 5 is in development, and it is now the default download here at SourceForge.

The main news in version 5 is support for English language, with support for more languages planned. Beyond language support, version 5 aims to be a modernisation of the software, more broadly applicable to the international market and addressing the need for affordable tools within the field of road design and earthworks.

On functionality, the main aim for version 5 is to enable fully automatic and on-demand generation of cross-sections, for geometry and earthwork calculation, as the user edits the horizontal alignment, the vertical alignment and the road template. This entails upgrading the functions for interactive design of the horizontal alignment to the same level as the current user-friendly and powerful functions for interactive design of the vertical alignment — which have been in place since the very first version back in 1996.

It also entails the implementation of a more powerful terrain model, capable of supporting on-demand cross-section generation, while being fast enough to support interactivity.

• Known issues in version 5
• Release History
• Language support
  
  

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LTS version (Norwegian only)

We currently provide Long-Term Support for version 4.

Current users in Norway might prefer to stay with version 4, as version 5 removes some functionality. In particular, version 5 focuses on the core functionality — earthwork calculation based on the cross-section method — and removes the basic functions for drawing water pipelines, as well as the ancient functions for manual entry of cross-section data.

In the long run, we recommend that users migrate to dedicated GIS tools for planning pipe networks, and to use general CAD tools for producing drawings that require supplemental information and content according to regulated standards, beyond what version 5 can offer. The program has comprehensive functions for exporting data and drawings to external tools for additional processing, and this will hopefully only further improve in the future.

To download version 4, go to the Files section.

• Release History | Version 4
• Lima VVA 4 user support (Norway)
  
  

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Licence

Lima VVA is free software. You can use, redistribute and modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation — either version 3 of the licence, or any later version. The software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty whatsoever. For more details, see the full licence text at http://gnu.org/licenses.

Except for minor parts licensed from third-parties, the underlying source code, documentation and other project material is the intellectual property of Vidar Hasfjord, the author and copyright holder of the work. If you wish to use the code, documentation or other project material outside the GPL licence, e.g. in proprietary software, please contact us to discuss an appropriate licence.

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Donations

If you find Lima VVA useful in your work, a donation would be nice.