CapCad component

CapSign

Type the message. CapSign lays out the sign to your country's standard: letters, spacing, arrows, borders and plate size, inside AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ZWCAD, BricsCAD, GstarCAD and ARES Commander or on its own.

The CapSign editor

Signs made in CapSign

Models that come with CapSign, from the country's own manual. Pick one, change the names, and the sign follows.
Regolamento di esecuzione del Codice della Strada, DPR 495/1992

Urban lane direction, BARI / Poggio Franco
Urban lane direction, BARI / Poggio Franco
Motorway exit itinerary, uscita FROSINONE 500 m
Motorway exit itinerary, uscita FROSINONE 500 m
Start of built-up area, TARANTO
Start of built-up area, TARANTO
Motorway confirmation, FIRENZE 180 / BOLOGNA 285 / MILANO 472
Motorway confirmation, FIRENZE 180 / BOLOGNA 285 / MILANO 472
International route number, E 55
International route number, E 55
State road number, SS 2
State road number, SS 2
Provincial road number, SP 37
Provincial road number, SP 37
Municipal road number, SC 19
Municipal road number, SC 19
Motorway distance marker 54, PIACENZA 4
Motorway distance marker 54, PIACENZA 4
State road distance marker 74, SS 248
State road distance marker 74, SS 248
Provincial road distance marker 24, SP 37
Provincial road distance marker 24, SP 37
Municipal road distance marker 11, SC 19
Municipal road distance marker 11, SC 19
Road radio information, RAI onda verde kHz 900
Road radio information, RAI onda verde kHz 900
Taxi rank, TAXI
Taxi rank, TAXI

What CapSign does

Everything a sign needs, from the first line of text to the fabrication sheet.

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Official letter series

The standard's letter series with every letter's real width and spacing. Not a look-alike font: the series itself.

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A sign that rearranges itself

Every element leans on its neighbour at the distance the standard asks for. Change a destination and the whole sign follows, with nothing to move by hand.

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Checked as you work

Each rule of the country's manual is checked live, with its page number. Many faults fix themselves with one click, shown before they are applied.

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Many countries, one tool

Pick the country, and letter heights, plate tables, colours and checks become its own. More than twenty countries, with spell checking against place names where the country has word lists.

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From a picture to a sign

Give the AI a picture of existing signs and get them back laid out to the standard, ready to review and save.

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Detail sheet and quantities

A fabrication sheet with every dimension, sheeting areas per colour, PDF and image export, and a sign book for the whole project.

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Into the CAD project and back

In AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ZWCAD, BricsCAD, GstarCAD and ARES Commander the sign goes into the drawing as a block, with its detail sheet, and comes back to the editor whenever it has to change.

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In CAD or on its own

The same editor runs inside the CAD or as its own Windows program, for whoever only needs signs.

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Your way of working

Several signs open in tabs, undo per sign, autosave and recovery, metric or imperial units, dark theme and keyboard shortcuts you can change.

How it works

A finished sign in about a minute.

1

Pick a template

Templates for each kind of sign, already to the standard. Choose the road speed and the letter height follows.

2

Write the destinations

Type straight onto the sign. Lines, arrows and pictograms take the standard's sizes and spacing by themselves.

3

Check against the standard

Faults show while you work. Apply fixes corrects what can be corrected automatically and shows the result first; the rest waits for your decision.

4

Deliver

Insert it in the drawing, save it to the project with its detail sheet, or export PDF, image and the sign book.

Get CapSign

CapSign can be bought on its own, apart from CapCad, at modest prices. Get in touch for terms and prices.