I am very happy to introduce the new, updated Civil 3D API Reference Guide. The new Reference Guide is the result of many months of work trying to improve the entire experience and make us more efficient in order to provide the best possible documentation. Is it perfect? No. But it is a big step forward that will allow us to work efficiently and be able to improve the documentation at a faster pace.
For the past few months, we have been researching tools that will allow us to improve the process of generating the documentation. We have established processes to create, review, and produce the materials that we will expose to you. And, we will keep working to make the experience even better.
It has been a lot of work and many people involved to get us to this point, but things will just get better moving forward. I want to thank everyone involved in this project, from the technical writers, to the UX engineers, and the development and QA team who also participated in the process. Great job everyone!
Update: Apparently, I was too quick posting about this. The updated version was still sitting on the Staging Servers waiting for us to give the OK to go live, which explains why I was able to access it, but not you. We are pushing it live now, and it takes around 24 hours for the new content to be cached around the globe; therefore, you should be able to start accessing it tomorrow January, 6th. I will update this post when we are sure the docs are live, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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The link go to a page unknown. Can you please check it out.
Justin Ralston
Posted by: Justin Ralston | 01/04/2012 at 11:19 PM
I had the same problem on 1/4/12 with file not found error. Today, 1/5, it's good.
What a nice change! This is a much more usable (so far, I've just had a chance to look through it for a short time). Comments.....the Feedback link opens an email with pertinent data to identify the page, BUT, the To: line is blank....not sure where to send it. The page a was sending feedback on, the method Create for a TinSurface, has the wrong Sample for the method.....
But, this is definitely a step in the right direction! Thanks to all involved in getting this going.
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Mishler | 01/05/2012 at 11:19 PM
Isaac could you do a post on what CivilWrapper is/means? It's included in the help files, and I'm looking to get a better understanding on what it means.
Thanks!
Posted by: Christopher Fugitt | 01/14/2012 at 11:20 AM
Chris,
That will be a quick post. CivilWraper is the base class for all civil 3d database object (and some other classes for convenience). It duty is to manage Unmanaged resources/objects, and it should not be used by API users.
Unfortunately, our documentation generation tools are pulling all the implementations and including them in the docs, and we are looking at ways to filter them out because they should not be part of the public interface.
Our API assembly is also showing its existance, and we are also looking at ways so that this does not happen.
You should not worry about this class and any of its implementations. Its intended for internal use, and API users should not try to use them directly.
Posted by: Isaac Rodriguez | 01/16/2012 at 09:48 AM