Resources
Documentation
Getting Started
- Create an account and start a free trial
- Enter boundary and garage levels
- Generate your first driveway profile
- Save and export a project
User Guides
Answers on profile design, compliance checks, vehicle clearance and exports are in the Support Centre and open on the page:
Tutorials
Video Tutorials
Short walkthroughs of the parts of DrivewayIQ people ask about most. They are being recorded now; each one appears here as it is published.
Entering your site levels
Boundary RL, driveway length and garage slab level - the three numbers the whole profile is solved from.
Coming soonUsing the Auto Profile Designer
Let the designer lay out the gradient zones, then adjust them by hand in the Custom Zone Matrix.
Coming soonChoosing a compliance rule pack
What changes when you switch between AS 2890.1, Brisbane City Council and QDC NMP 1.1.
Coming soonReading the clearance simulation
Pick a vehicle, add occupants, and read where the underbody comes closest to the driveway.
Coming soonRunning the feasibility envelope
Instead of testing one slab level at a time, find every level the block can actually reach.
Coming soonExtending the profile to the kerb
Adding the kerb zone, verge and footpath so the crossover is drawn and checked with the driveway.
Coming soonSetting up your drawing standard
Line weights, dimension style and RL decimals, saved as an export template you can reuse on every job.
Coming soonExporting DXF at drawing scale
Check the export preview, choose a scale from 1:1 to 1:500, and take the drawing into CAD.
Coming soon
Changelog
Release Notes
What changed in DrivewayIQ, and when. Newest first.
- Added QDC NMP 1.1 as a compliance rule pack, including its conditional maximum and the driveway length budget that goes with it.
- A failed check now names the rule it broke, and says when a maximum is conditional rather than absolute.
- Extended the vehicle data to 2026 models, but only where the published figures still hold.
- The clearance callout is now set in the drawing typeface.
- Added a standards-referenced validation suite for the vehicle model, made it practical to run, and fixed the cases it flagged.
- Fixed four cases where the clearance simulator was optimistic, and corrected the Tesla record.
- Corrected two data provenance notes that the underlying vehicle figures contradicted.
- The feasibility envelope no longer reports slab levels that cannot actually be built.
- Two check narrations now follow their own measurements.
- Simplified billing to a single subscription with every feature included.
- The rate-of-change check now reads its limit from the selected rule pack, and Brisbane City Council was added as a pack.
- The profile is coloured by the rule pack audit, and a drain on its own no longer fails the check.
- The vehicle crossing is now checked against its own limit rather than the driveway limit.
- The default layout takes its gradients from the rule pack instead of a fixed set.
- The designer now budgets for the sag reversal on sites with no drain.
- Lifted the dimension band clear of the profile and lightened it.
- The rise to platform is now drawn as a dimension in the exported drawing, not just on screen.
- Each gradient zone is bounded by its own division line.
- Moved the calculator onto managed hosting.
- A failed sign-in now returns to the login page instead of an error page.
- No GST is charged, and the tax ID field that collected for it has been removed.
- Added zoom and pan to the workspace drawing, with a pass over the linework.
- The rise to platform reads as a dimension rather than a sentence, clear of its own dimension line and carried past the slab.
- Garage slab and platform RLs are always shown to the millimetre.
- Restacked the drawing so the vehicle sits above the grid and behind the profile and labels.
- Retuned the garage slab fill in the drawing.
- Real vehicle silhouettes in the drawing.
- Added a transport bar under the drawing that drives the vehicle along the profile.
- Jobs and export templates moved into the side panel, and the rate-of-change figure into the Calculation Output.
- Added undo and redo, and fixed a broken clear-outputs.
- Reorganised the side panel into four headings, with open and collapsed sections that tell themselves apart.
- Added subscription billing with a seven-day trial, and an account menu.
- Added compliance rule packs, so a profile is checked against the standard you select rather than one fixed set of limits. Hand-built Custom Zone Matrix profiles are audited against the pack too, not just the ones the designer produces.
- Added the feasibility envelope, which reports every slab level a block can reach instead of checking one at a time.
- Added a live station and RL readout that follows the cursor across the drawing.
- Per-generation dimensions for every dual-cab ute in the vehicle data, with each row stating whether its figures are published or estimated.
- The auto designer now enforces the joins onto the street and onto the platform, which were previously scored but never checked.
- Dark blueprint theme across the interface. The drawing carries both light and dark palettes, and exports stay light so they print.
- DrivewayIQ moved from the desktop calculator to the browser.
- Reworked the layout into a standalone Calculation Output bar and a Profile Output card.
- Added Google sign-in and a subscription-gated access model.
Requirements
System Requirements
DrivewayIQ runs in the browser. There is nothing to install, and no CAD software is needed to produce a drawing.
Supported on current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on Windows, macOS or Linux. JavaScript must be enabled. The calculator is built on long-established web features rather than recent ones, so somewhat older releases of those browsers generally work as well.
It is designed for a desktop or laptop with a mouse or trackpad. The layout does reflow on narrower screens, but zoom, pan and the cursor readout on the drawing are driven by the scroll wheel and by hover, so a phone or tablet is not a supported way to work.
Exports download as files. Opening an exported DXF at your chosen scale, from 1:1 to 1:500, needs CAD software on your own machine; PDF and image exports open anywhere.