Ceethreedee Tools

Ceethreedee Tools

Win64, English

Ceethreedee.com
Ceethreedee Free tools for Autodesk® Civil 3D®. Batch Create stuff / extracting strings from surfaces / and more!

General Usage Instructions

After loading "Ceethreedee tools" a new ribbon will appear called "CeeThreeDee Tools". On this ribbon are many commands to help you with your day to day workflows in Civil 3D. Working from left to right. The General Panel has a variety of out of the box layer buttons as well as two frequently used commands "Layer Suffix Objects" and "Layer Prefix Objects". Use these tools to quickly place Autodesk® AutoCAD® objects on new layers without having to go to the layer manager.


Next is the Main Panel which contains the Theme Manager for saving the state of Civil 3D objects (includes styles and layers), resetting your scales and also in the drop-down is the surface statistics dashboard. 

Then comes the Geometry panel which contains the Super Line Connector for quickly joining together lines into boundaries. There are 2 tools for summing area and length of AutoCAD objects.

The surface display panel contains a variety of surface toggling tools to quickly turn off components. As well as a tool to copy "Surface analysis" settings between surfaces.

Then in the Surface analysis section is a storage tool as well as a 3D face shrinkwrap tool. Also here is the String Extractor for getting strings out of surfaces as well as the Surface Region Extractor for getting boundaries of common slope on surfaces.

Then the Batch operations panel has a variety of tools for "Batch" creating Civil 3D objects. Including, Alignments/Corridors/Profiles/Profile Views/Volume Surfaces and also a command to place labels underneath assemblies. There is also a "Find/Replace" tool for renaming all your Civil 3D objects in a flash.

The misc panel contains a variety of misc commands for text formatting and conversion of Civil 3D tables. There is also a nifty tool that swaps the Object IDs of AutoCAD objects. 

Screenshots

Commands

Ribbon/Toolbar Icon Command Command Description

CTD_ADDASSEMBLYTITLES

Automatically add linked field text below assembly titles so you know what they are. Run it again and it will automatically remove the text created the first time

CTD_BATCHADDSURFACEPROFILES

Add multiple surface profiles to multiple alignments in one hit. Will also allow you to batch-generate profile views for multiple alignments as well.

CTD_BATCHCREATEALIGNMENTS

Convert multiple 2D or 3D polylines to alignments at once. It will also create a profile on that alignment using the elevations of the 3D polyline or 2D polyline.

CTD_BATCHCREATECORRIDORS

Create multiple corridors at once. All you need is an assembly/alignment and a profile. Will also automatically create one surface for that corridor and add point codes and links as well.

CTD_BATCHCREATEVOLUMESURFACES

Create multiple volume surfaces at once, it includes a nifty prefix/suffixing system to name your surfaces nicely

CTD_FINDREPLACEOBJECTS

Ever wanted to rename all your Civil 3D objects with a find and replace? Well, now you can.

CTD_LAYPRE

Puts the selected objects on the layer name its currently using with a Prefix. So if you have an object on layer TEXT and layer LINES... you type the prefix "PS-".. and the objects will now be on layer PS-TEXT and PS-LINES respectively.

CTD_LAYSUF

Puts objects on their same layers but with a suffix.. so TEXT and LINES with a suffix "=PS" will become TEXT-PS and LINES-PS respectively

CTD_LINECONNECTOR

Creates a new line by selecting multiple objects and connecting them at their nearest points.. You can even select alignments/featurelines etc...

CTD_RESETSCALES

Will reset the scale list to match the list defined in the "CTD_Settings.xml" in the plugin folder.. Automatically detects imperial/metric from DRAWINGSETTINGS

CTD_CALCULATESTAGESTORAGE

Calculates an accurate stage storage of a pond/dam using a surface and basin polyline that is set to the desired level. Can copy to clipboard or insert table at end. Much better than using the Civil 3D tools

CTD_STRINGEXTRACTOR

This tool will attempt to automatically extract "featurelines" from a design surface or 3D faces. 3D polylines are separated into CREST/TOE/VALLEY/BOUNDARY etc.. Great for lazy drafters that don't want to explode corridors and trim them up etc.. Very useful if you want to get linework out of surfaces created by other people

CTD_STRIPTEXTFORMATTING

Attempts to remove "manual" formatting of text objects. So everything is by layer again etc..

CTD_SUMAREAS

Sums all the areas of the selected objects and puts the result onto the clipboard.

CTD_SUMLENGTHS

Sums all the lengths of selected objects and puts it on the clipboard

CTD_SURFACESTYLEGREYS

Sets the "SlopeAnaylsis" of a surface to 0-15% as 254 and 15% to Vertical as 253. Great way to visualise designs with slope shading.

CTD_SURFMATCHANAYLSIS

Copies the surface analysis from one surface to another. All types of analysis are copied. Elevation/Slope etc..

CTD_SURFREGIONBOUNDARY

Attempts to create a boundary around parts of a surface that have similar grades. Great for selecting a side of an embankment and getting a boundary quickly etc..

CTD_SURFSHRINKWRAP

Creates a boundary around 3D faces to use as an outside boundary

CTD_SURFSTATS

Displays statistics for ALL surfaces in a Civil 3D drawing, including 2D/3D area min/max elevations and cut fill for volumes surfaces.. Easy to copy to clipboard

CTD_SURFTOGGLE_TRIS

Quickly toggle the surface triangles on/off on a selected surface..

CTD_SWAPOBJECTIDS

This will swap two objects around in the AutoCAD database. This is useful for things that are using those lines. For example, you might be using a polyline to clip multiple surfaces. Rather than having to add the boundary back to all those surfaces. Just draw or copy in your new boundary. Swap IDs and then safely delete the old boundary. Also useful for corridor targets

CTD_THEMEMANAGER

Sick of turning surfaces on and off and changing styles all the time in complex models? Theme manager allows you to "Save" the state of all your objects in your drawing. Including the Civil 3D style/layer settings. Then you can go and change all your styles knowing you can safely return them back later.

Installation/Uninstallation

The installer that was run when you downloaded this app/plugin from the Autodesk App Store will start installing the app/plugin. Or, simply double-click the downloaded installer to install the app/plugin. You may need to restart your Autodesk product to activate the app/plugin. To uninstall this plugin, exit the Autodesk product if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer and select the "Uninstall" button. OR click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 7/8.1/10/11) and uninstall as you would any other system application.

Additional Information

Always happy to take on ideas and develop new tools if you have ideas. 

Known Issues

Contact

Company Name: Ceethreedee.com
Support Contact: info@ceethreedee.com

Author/Company Information

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Support Information

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Version History

Version Number Version Description

2.8.5

App Store release version.
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