Syd Studio

Civil software and games.

Syd Studio is an independent studio. Three projects are on the plan so far, with room held for more.

Site plan of Syd Studio A parcel divided into lots along Studio Way. Lot 1 is Groundwork, Lot 2 is Globe Roamer and Lot 3 is Gradeline. There is a stormwater pond, and Tract A is reserved for future development. LOT 1 GROUNDWORK CODE LOOKUP TOOL LOT 2 GLOBE ROAMER GEOGRAPHY GAME LOT 3 GRADELINE CIVIL DESIGN TOOLS TRACT A FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 1+00 2+00 3+00 4+00 5+00 6+00 7+00 STUDIO WAY · 50' R/W POND WET DETENTION P.O.B. N 88°41'53" E 880.23' S 1°16'23" E 450.11' S 89°21'48" W 900.06' N 1°18'07" E 440.11' N 0 100 200 FT BOUNDARY LOT LINE CENTERLINE 9.09 AC±
The studio, drawn as a site plan. Select a lot to see the project.

Groundwork

Lot 1Working build, not yet released

The code that governs your site, quoted and cited.

Groundwork looks up Florida land development regulations. Ask it a question and it answers with the passage itself, quoted from the source and cited so you can check it.

It runs on a local machine and works without an internet connection.

It also works as a connector for AI chat. Setup steps are on its page: groundwork.sydstudio.ai

Reference only, not legal advice.

What it reads

  • Florida Administrative Code
  • Water management district handbooks
  • FDOT manuals
  • County land development codes

Globe Roamer

Lot 2In development for iOS

A geography game you play from the driver's seat.

You are dropped on a real road somewhere in the world. Drive around, read the clues, and work out where you are.

Guess

Explore until you think you know the place, then pin it on the globe. The closer the pin, the better the score.

Dash

Race the clock to a destination, such as the nearest hospital or the main street. In the first release you race a computer driver.

Platform
iOS
Engine
Unreal Engine, on real-world terrain
Players
Single player at launch. Multiplayer comes later.
YOU WERE HERE DISTANCE SETS SCORE YOUR PIN

Gradeline

Lot 3Early development

Civil design tools, written in Rust.

Gradeline works with the pieces of a site design: surfaces, horizontal alignments, vertical profiles and pipe networks. It reads LandXML, so a design exported from other civil software can be opened and checked.

It comes as a desktop viewer and a command-line tool. Read station and offset, elevations, grades, and cut and fill. Compute the volume between two surfaces. Export contours and alignments to DXF.

Early build. So far it is tested against synthetic data, not yet against real project files.

Reads
LandXML 1.2
Exports
DXF
Units
Imperial: feet, acres, cubic yards
Runs on
Windows, macOS and Linux
PVI CUT FILL EXISTING GROUND DESIGN GRADE 0+00 1+00 2+00 3+00 4+00

About

Syd Studio is where I build things on my own time. Some are practical tools, like Groundwork. Others are just things I wanted to exist.

The studio is based in Florida.

Contact

For questions about a project, or to talk about working together, write to: