Archive for July 27th, 2007

Using Pipe Sample VBA

Posted by Christopher Fugitt on 27th July 2007

Welcome to our newest poster, Christopher Fugitt of Tetra Tech in San Luis Obispo, CA. He runs his own blog at Civil 3D Reminders. I thought some of his posts on modifying the pipe rules and hacking VBA were great, so I invited him to post some of them here. Let me (and him) know what you think in the comments below! - JW

Civil 3D ships with some Sample VBA code for various Civil 3D objects. They provide some good starting points for creating your own programs and not have to wait for Autodesk to add it to the program in a later release. In the Autodesk Discussion Group a person was looking to create points from a pipe network with the z elevation being the invert of the pipe.

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Civil 3D Fundamentals: Surfaces from Contours

Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 27th July 2007

After Dana’s great post last week on pasting together surfaces to get a finished composite surface, imageand after this request for help today, I thought I’d actually write up something and work in a quick lesson on moving from elevated polyline to labeled C3D surface. No rocket science here, but a good fundamental in getting going with C3D.

So here are the givens: Polylines with elevations and a decent C3D template with some good surface and contour label styles. I’m going with the NCS Extended template.

Now, let’s get in to it after the jump!

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