18 thoughts on “CeeThreeDee Free Tools”

1. and yes.. i haven’t finished the Batch Rename Xrefs tool yet.. If I get Covid again I promise ill finished it.

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2. Wow.  The multiple profile and profile view creator thing is AWESOME!!!  Thank you!!!  I work on large sites; today I had 170 ponds and 340 ditches in a drawing.  Made the ditch alignments for every single one… and then click, click, click, click… create profile, create profile view… WOW this is a time saver!!
    
   Any future plans of making a create multiple corridor tool?
   Alignment | Profile | Assembly | Target
   As columns, and then Click?
   Installed great, love it, thank you so much!!!

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   1. For the win…. Create multiple corrdor’s you say… Maybe if i get Covid again ill take a look

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   2. There is a third-party app which converts polylines to C3D corridors (it creates horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, profile view, corridor, top surface, and datum surface). But it is paid software.

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3. There is a third-party app which converts polylines to C3D corridors (it creates horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, profile view, corridor, top surface, and datum surface). But it is paid software.

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   1. Yeah, whats it called? I’ll replace it for free..

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      1. it’s called iDAS

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         1. okay sounds fun I see it.. 

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4. Corridor EZ | ZenTek Consultants
   Seems it provides the above mentioned service with a “free trial” attached to it.
    
    

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5. Hi again.  Would you be willing to give a little bit of insight into how you created this (awesome) tool?  I’d be interested in trying my hand at it.  I do have one note: in the create multiple profiles and profile views, there isn’t a scroll bar or a way to uncheck multiple surfaces.  I’ve been getting around it by flipping my monitor to portrait to try to see the bottom, but in drawings with several hundred surfaces (yes I realize that’s crazy but it’s my 9-5 job) I still can’t see/edit the options for creating multiple profile views so I have to go get them from 0,0.  Thanks again, you have saved dozens of hours of my time and I really appreciate it!

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   1. Ha. No worries ill get that fixed, glad I could help. As for how to do it yourself. Well I went on a 2 years adventure down the coding hole. I still work a 9-5 job, and i have two kids, but between about 9pm (when my wife goes to bed) and 1am (when i go to bed) i would just keep trying to learn more from anyone and anywhere. I would say I learnt the most from two people in particular. There is a youtuber that makes Unity games in c# call Quill18 (he has a channel called Quill18creates) and he is a great teacher! The other would be kean walmsley blog “Through the interface” so many great examples for Autocad based code. So go forth and conquer

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6. You’re the best! Thank you! Really appreciate it sir, hope you have a great weekend!

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7. Hi there CeeThreeDee,Just wanted to say Cheers for the awesome tools. The BatchRename and The Batch Profiles are two of my new favourite tools! And in a world of capitalism – thanks for spreading the Free tool love around! 

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8. Really appreciate your free tools!

   You asked for feedback, so here goes 😉

   Create Batch Volume Surfaces. A cool and powerful idea. Here’s what would make it 5 times faster to use:
   There should be a naming template for volume surfaces, so I can make it say something like “{Comparison Surface} compared to {Base Surface}”
   All columns should have a button to “Set all”. I would like to set all Base surfaces to the same, and use different comparison surfaces. In a different circumstance I might want to use different base surfaces and set all the comparison surfaces to the same.
   Same applies to the name template for creating the Volume Surface Name and to the Style and Surface Layer column. They should all have a “Set all” button at the top.

   There should be a way to delete a row, in case I made too many.

   If I “Create Volume Surfaces” without setting a Name or a Style, it causes a Fatal Error. It would be good if the button was greyed out until all settings are present to prevent a crash.

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   1. Solid Feedback, thanks Mark.. Yeah batch volumes surfaces was my first go at making a tool.. Haven’t revisited it in a while. Next time i feel inspired ill try and add those features.. 

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      1. I just realized also: this would be a great use case for surface folders.
         If I put all my comparison surfaces in one folder, it would be great to select one Base Surface, select the folder of Comparison Surfaces, and end up with a new folder of all the volume surfaces.

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9. I’m confused about the stage storage tool. Getting different results than expected.
   I clicked the box to Keep Generated Surfaces, and checked the volumes in the surface properties.
   Why would the cumulative volume for the top elevation in the table be a cubic metre less than the volume in the surface properties for the same elevation? Where do these table volumes come from? I would have thought they were copied from the volume surface properties.

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   1. Sounds like a bug, there is an issue where Civil 3D will create an extra row at the top of volume elevation table. an “Off by one error”. Unfortunately the Civil 3D api doesnt allow you to get the volumes etc from the calculated ranges directly out of the surface. My code places a volume legend table really far away and then explodes it and reads the volumes back out of it. 

      Another bug we have spotted is you need to have the “basin polyline” completely covering the surface. IF it goes beyond it, it will crash. 🙁 .

      One day i might revisit. But hard to complain about the price of the tool. :p

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