What is Causeway Software? #
Causeway Software is the usual search term for products from Causeway Technologies Limited. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Buckinghamshire, England. It makes software for construction firms and for the contractors who maintain roads and other infrastructure.
You’ll usually meet two families of Causeway construction software.
Estimating and measurement. Contractors and estimators price bids with Causeway estimating software. They measure drawings and BIM models with CADMeasure and BIMMeasure, part of Causeway’s CATO suite.
Design. Engineering consultancies, housebuilders and local authorities use Causeway Flow for drainage design. Civil and structural engineers use Causeway PDS. Road teams use the Signs & Lines suite for traffic signs and road markings.
Many of the desktop tools ask Causeway License Manager (CLM) for a license when they start. Users sign in with their Causeway email and password before the application opens.
Which license types does Causeway Software support? #
Causeway names two license types.
A fixed license is what Causeway also calls a standalone or named user license. Only the person assigned to it can use it. It can’t be shared.
A floating license is a set number of licenses that a group shares, first come, first served. Causeway’s own warning applies here: at peak times, the pool can run short.
Causeway Flow software runs on a cloud-based floating license that isn’t locked to one user. Some Flow customers still use a dongle or a separate software license instead of CLM.
Each type gives you a different question to answer. With floating licenses, does your peak ever reach the size of the pool? With fixed licenses, does each named person still use the seat? With dongles, the license sits on a hardware key outside CLM, so you’ll need to count those separately.
Which Causeway applications use Causeway licensing? #
We found no other software vendor that licenses its products through Causeway. When Causeway shows up as a license source in your estate, the applications behind it are Causeway’s.
| Demande | Fonctionnalités | How it’s licensed |
|---|---|---|
| Causeway Flow | Storm and foul water drainage design | CLM cloud floating license, or a dongle or software license |
| Causeway SmartTools | Companion tool to Flow, released alongside it | CLM |
| Causeway Live Design | Multi-discipline infrastructure design | CLM |
| Causeway PDS | Infrastructure design for civil and structural engineers | CLM |
| Causeway Sign | Traffic sign design to TSRGD rules | CLM |
| Causeway Line | Road marking design | CLM |
| Causeway SignPlot | Stand-alone traffic sign design | CLM |
| Causeway SignLoad | Traffic sign structure design and passive safety checks | CLM |
| CATO CADMeasure and BIMMeasure | Takeoff from CAD drawings and BIM models | Sign-in through CLM |
The Causeway pages we reviewed don’t say how Causeway Estimating is licensed. Check your contract or ask your Causeway account manager.
How Open iT supports your work with Causeway Software #
Open iT makes LicenseAnalyzer™, a software asset management solution for engineering and technical applications. It collects usage from the license servers and portals your applications check licenses out from. Then it turns that usage into reports. Open iT supports more than 6,000 applications. It collects Causeway usage with the same tool it uses for Autodesk Cloud, Bentley Cloud and AVEVA Cloud licenses.
Start with two numbers you already own: how many Causeway licenses you pay for, and the most you’ve used at once. The Max Available vs Max in Use report puts them side by side, feature by feature. If your busiest hour never reaches the size of the pool, the gap is seats you renew and nobody uses. If you hit the ceiling, you’ll see the hours when every license was taken.
Feature Elapsed Time per User shows who used which feature, and for how long. A named user who never appears is your first candidate for reclamation. Usage by user group shows each department or project team, which is the view chargeback needs.
One limit: the Host field stays blank. Causeway’s portal doesn’t report the computer name, so you see the user, not the machine.
Foire aux questions #
What is Causeway Software?
Causeway Software is construction and infrastructure software from Causeway Technologies, a UK company founded in 1999. Its products include Causeway Flow for drainage design, Causeway PDS, the Signs & Lines suite, Causeway Estimating and the CATO measurement tools.
What license types does Causeway Software use?
Causeway uses fixed licenses, tied to one named user, and floating licenses, shared by a group on a first-come, first-served basis. Causeway Flow runs on a cloud-based floating license. Some Flow customers use a dongle instead.
How does Open iT collect Causeway license usage?
Open iT connects to Causeway’s license portal with a non-SSO administrator account. It reads licenses in use and available every five minutes and loads the data into historical reports overnight.
Does Open iT show which computer a Causeway license is used on?
No. Causeway’s license portal doesn’t report the host name, so Open iT reports show the user and leave the Host field blank.
Know your Causeway peak before the next renewal #
Open iT shows you the two numbers that settle a renewal: what you own and what you use at peak. Start a free trial, or read the Causeway setup guide first.
