Still Around

You may have noticed it has been a few weeks since my last post. My team and I have been very busy working on features for the next release, and I barely have time for anything else. Still, I wanted to post something, so all of you know that I am still around and committed to this blog. I am preparing some new articles, and I will get them posted very soon.

In the meantime, I want to talk about Autodesk University 2011. As you may already know, the AU 2011 class catalog is online, and you may want to take a look and start planning the event. Now it is the time to go to your boss and explain why it is so important you attend the event.

I am, personally, very excited because I will be teaching a class this year. For those of you interested, the class is “Understanding the Alignments and Profiles API in AutoCAD Civil 3D”. The key learning objectives, as explained in the class page are:

• Describe the structure of the Alignment and Profile objects.
• Manipulate points of vertical intersection (PVI) in Profile objects.
• Manipulate points of intersection (PI) in Alignment objects.
• Explain curve groups in Alignments.

If you have any questions about the class, you can contact me through the AU website and post your questions there. That way, everyone attending the class can go through the questions and answers.

I am fairly new to AU (this is my second year attending and teaching), and I was not aware of the Un-Conference classes. These type of classes are a little more layback and provide a good environment for discussion. This is of big interest to me because one of my motivations to attend AU is to meet and talk with all of you and learn how we can do things better. This year, I won’t be able to prepare an Un-Conference session, but if you are interested in meet and discuss the Civil 3D API, let me know, and I’ll see if I can organize something (even if is an informal chat over a few beers).

So, stay around and let me know about your plans for AU. And I promise to have a few articles for you coming soon. Regards.

Comments

[C3DReminders]

I'd be interested in a meet up to discuss the Civil 3D API.

[Kelcyo]

Hi Isaac,
I am a designer for the pipe line oil sector here in Brazil.
I use the Civil 3D a few years to track designs of pipe line work because it follows the same criterion for routes.
However in the pipe line civil constructions does not meet the requirements for preparing the same, so we develop routines.
With this I wonder if there are plans to integrate this civilian area, as well as the use of GPUs at system.
Grateful.

[Isaac Rodriguez]

Hi Kelcyo,

Unfortunately, I cannot speak of future developments/features in Civil 3D.

It is good to see that people are customizing the application to their needs using the API, and I will like to here more from your experiences.

[Kelcyo]

In the previous post. This case is a drawing of the ACAD, how to convert this dwg to a valid civil drawing? This programmatically?

[Isaac Rodriguez]

Hi Kelcyo,

There is not a way to convert an AutoCAD drawing into a Civil 3D drawing programmatically. The only wat to do it is to open the drawing in Civil 3D and save it, but it is a manual step.

[Kelcyo]

Hello Isaac.
There are not many places for research on programming for Civil 3D. So I was very happy when the appearance of your blog. I also know of the existence of ADN no longer accessible to my reality yet. So I have sought information here. I can not find the API and COM and NET class that deals with the method "ImportStylesAndSettings." You could talk for we do not find documented information on this.

[Isaac Rodriguez]

I am happy to help. I will add your suggestion to the list.

[A. Huizinga]

Thanks for all the information about the Civil3D API. There is so few information about this to find on the internet, unfortunately.
As I read your blog correctly, there is no option to extract objects from surfaces via de .NET API at this moment? Only using COM?

[Isaac Rodriguez]

A. Huizinga,

That is correct. The functionality does not exist in the .NET API.