I would bet that by now you are aware of the extensions
available for
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009 on the Autodesk Subscription
website. If not, and you are on Subscription, then here is what
you're missing.
Before we take a quick look at the extension downloads please
note that these extensions are only available to
Autodesk Subscription users.
Alright, up on to the "soap box" I go...
If you are currently using or you have plans to move to
Civil 3D, and you are not on Autodesk's Subscription
(especially for
Civil 3D), then, and I hate to get all "salesy" on your
backside, you should be! At the rate that the Autodesk Developers
keep improving and adding new tools, you know, the tools you keep
asking them for, by not staying current you will have the honor
of adding more time when upgrading for each version you pass up.
Also, you'll lose out on the new tools or the benefits from
improved performance and stability. Your call...
Ok, I'll step down now.
So, here is what is available for you
Civil 3D users on the Subscription site.
First and foremost there are six new
Subassemblies that can be added to your Tool Palettes. The
instructions are simple and the steps to add these supplementary
subassemblies is very easy, and once they have been added to the
Tool Palettes they work the same way as all of the subassemblies
shipped with
Civil 3D 2009. As you can see I installed these "newbies",
and if I can do it so can you.
Next is the extension for importing and exporting
HEC RAS .geo files containing stream design information
for flood analysis. Simply export the .geo file out of
Civil 3D 2009 and import it into HEC-RAS. With the flood
analysis complete, import the data from HEC-RAS back into
Civil 3D 2009. Profile data is imported and surface objects
can be created from the imported data.
Note: This extension is only available to
AutoCAD Civil 3D users. The extension is available in English
and will install on all language versions of
AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Another extension that I installed was for the
Stage Storage report. This extension is used to calculate
incremental and cumulative volumes of a basin from a
Civil 3D 2009 Surface. Using polyline contours or
Civil 3D surface contours, the volume and area values of a
basin are calculated. The volumes calculations are by average end
area and/or conic approximation. The analysis tables may be saved
as .AeccSTT files, then inserted into the drawing as AutoCAD
tables or sent to a .txt report file.
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Note: This extension is also available to
AutoCAD Civil 3D users only. The extension is available in
English and will install on all language versions of
AutoCAD Civil 3D.
A couple of other extensions that are available are for
importing GENIO and PISTE ASCII files.
The
GENIO import Extension provides the ability to select
features from an ASCII GENIO file and import them into
Civil 3D 2009. The extension is in English only, but will
install and run on any localized version of
AutoCAD Civil 3D.
GENIO is a
GENeralized
Input and Output option that is used to import and export
model information to and from MX. MX is suite of string-based
modeling products from Bentley (acquisition of Infrasoft)
The
PISTE import extension for
Civil 3D 2009 provides the ability to select features from an
ASCII PISTE project file and import them into
AutoCAD Civil 3D. This extension is in French only and it
installs and runs on French and English versions of
AutoCAD Civil 3D.
If you were unaware of these new tools on the Subscription
site don't feel bad. Because if you were like me and weren't as
diligent as you could have been, then you no doubt missed them.
Besides, sometimes it is very easy to be out of the proverbial
loop. And there are days when I even wonder what the proverbial
loop is.
Anyways, take a look at them and see if they will help you out
in your day to day tasks.
Thanks and Enjoy!
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