Changes in Civil Essentials Aug 2009 - November 2009
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DynaLOT >
Ractors! edit a point elevation and all the points linked to it update, change a profile the lot front elevations update.
Survey Tools > Survey to plan
the customization has moved to steltman tool setting. all the routines work whether you use breakline designer, field books or in c3d 2010 line code sets!
Profile Tools > label elevations at interval on curves in profile
new routine to label curve elevations
Changes in Civil Essentials April 2009 - July 2009
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Pipe Tools > Pipe Editor
pipe editor completely redesigned. Create runs from networks, design from upstream or downstream, inverts at CL or edge of manhole,
change slopes or pipe sizes
1 at a time or by column many more enhancements
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DynaLOT > Set Point by daylight
now has option to force cut or fill
Site Tools > Match Style
Now does pipe styles too.
River Tools > Draw data from HEC-RAS SDF file
Now Draws: Water Surface Extents; Velocities; Banks; Boundaries, in-effective areas,
Channel CL and 2D and 3D Sections. NEW options to label the sections and add object data. Now imports multiple reaches
View AVI
Survey to Plan > Dripline canopy
New routine that allows you to take a shot on the trunk and edge of canopy and block will be scaled accordingly
Street Tools > elbow knuckle and CDS
new options to selct offset pline or offset alignment
River Tools > Draw banks in plan from picking points in sections
new routine that allows you to draw the banks in plan
Dynalot > Lot corner delta from CL
if you already have a lot front selection set you can add or remove from the existing rather than starting from scratch
DynaLOT > Grade Tool
New options for interpolate or to measure along an alignment or arc
Many Areas > Volumes from grid tics and parcels
now auto selects the area to process, and has an option to leave the DIfference TExt on the drawing when finished
Point Tools > Compare points to DTM
now has option to lower surface selected
Changes in Civil Essentials Nov 2008- March 2009
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Civil Essentials
All Tools have been updated to work in C3D 2010
New toolbars for C3D civil essentials
Dynalot toolbar has been expaned and a second tool bar has been aded with the 10 most used routines
Road > River Tools > Import SDF file
new option to import ineffective areas from HEC-RAS sdf file
Site > DynaLOT > 1 LOT
now works with C3D aecc points
Road > Section Tools > draw plines in plan from picks in sections
new routine to draw plines in plan from picks in sections
Survey > Survey Drafting Tools > Label Lines
New routines to dimensiuon lines
Pipes > pipe tools > Pipe Editor
routine has been enhanced to show drop across the manhole. i talso show the inverts at the manhole edges and not at the Centre of the manhole
Pipes > pipe tools > Trench volumes
New routine to create to calculate trench excavation volumes
Site > dyanlot > label all grades
New routine to label all grades between point on all lines selected
View AVI
Steltman Software Acquires Landproject.com intellectual property
This acquisition includes the complete "Landproject Suite" of tools which includes PipeX, DirtDemon, LandTools and PointTools for all AutoCAD Land Development Desktop and AutoCAD Civil 3D platforms.
more information
New routine to calculate the service connection elevation at the property line from the main at a grade
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Profile Tools > Reverse Profile
New routine that will reverse the selected profile, because even if you reverse an alignment your design profile does not reverse
Profile Tools > Create align/Profile from 3d poly or Featureline
routine updated to create alignment and profile
Profile Tools > List Elevations at intersections
updated to allow you to change the design if the profiles do not match
Pipe Tools > Label invert elevation from plan to profile
now labels the invert elevation in plan and profile
These were some of the most popular demonstrations at our booth at AU 2007:
Go to web or View AVI Create Civil 3D prototype drawing from LDD description keys and cogo block library in 1 pick., than draw 3d plines
View AVI Profile Tools quickly and interactively draws design profile
View AVI DynaLOT does subdivsion grading in half the time
View AVI Many Areas calculates Volumes by Parcels each with it's own topsoil and pregegrade Depth and creates a Surface in Civil 3D
View AVI Pipe Tools edits pipes in Civil 3D or import/export to Excel
View AVI Hydaflow Tools exports drainage areas to Hydraflow and imports the design data back to Civil 3D
View AVI create stage storage volume table from a pond surface in Civil 3D using Many Areas
View AVI River Tools brings data from Civil 3D to HEC-RAS and back!
View AVI match styles in 1 pick! view avi
Corridor EZY for Civil 3D enables you to automate the vertical design of intersections, knuckles, cul-de-sacs and round abouts!
Changes in Civil Essentials Febrary 2008- April 2008
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Survey to Plan Tools > Draw Sewer from block by depth
new routine to to draw 3d pline by selecting survey points and putting in depth to invert
DynaLOT Tools > place house elevations at 4 corners
New routine place house offset from PL, calculates house corner; first floor; basement and footing elevations
Profile Tools > intersect by grade
New routine to calculate station and elevation from 2 known points and interesecting by grade
Pipe Tools > Define ponding area from point
new routine calculates where user defined elevation intersects surface around a point
Pipe Tools > Define catchment area from point
New tool finds the highest elevation before surface slopes away around a point
Hydraflow Tools > update hydraflow file with storm areas
update stm file with latest area circle information; area value in block updates when the pline is changed
River Tools > Import data
selecting section option will now draw the banks
River Tools > Export data to Hec-ras
You can now select overbanks if different than the banks
Changes in Civil Essentials December 2007-January 2008
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Many Areas> Volumes by Slice
new routine to calculate volumes of stockpile or landfill by elevation increment
Breakline Designer > Create breaklines by Descriptor
Now optionally adds breaklines to existing surface
Street Tools > Multiple 3D plines
Now optionally adds breaklines to existing surface
Pipe Tools > Calc Storm Areas
Area Circles now update if pline is modified
HydraFLOW Tools > Import HGL
New tool that reads the STM and draws HGL on selected profile
Pipe Tools > Export to Excel
Now will export up to 3 areas and co-efficients to excel
DynaLOT > Pad Extents
new tool to calcualte freeform pad extents based on point and where elevation intersects surface
Alignment Tools > Join Alignemnts
new tool to create new alignment from 2 selected alignments,
Pipe Tools > Pipe Elevation to Profile
New routine to draw ellipse on profile from selected point on pipe in plan
Changes in Civil Essentials October-November 2007
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River Tools > Draw Bank in Plan by Picking in Sections
Site > DynaLOT > Label Grade from block perp to 3d Pline
added new option when labelling grade to 3d pline for selecting point on pline or perpendicular to pline or to Elevation from CL
Survey > Layout >Sokkia > Import SDR Station Offset
New routines to read an SDR station offset file and create pline or import points
Site > DynaLOT > Extended Label Grade
New routine to label slopes with additional options
Site > DynaLOT > Lot Design 2 points
new routine to design lot line between 2 points
Site > Admin > Tools Setting > General > Use AECC points
now toggle between Softdesk Point Blocks and AECC Point Objects
Changes in Civil Essentials June/July/August 2006
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Road > Road Plan Tools > Label Grades in Plan between PCodes
routine to label grades between pcodes in plan
Road > Road Plan Tools > Sopelines
now allows you to specify a gap between a group of slopelines, remembers last setting
Road > Alignment tools > Set alignment by grade from contours
now includes plines, lwplines and aecc contours
road > Profile Tools > Skewed Utilities to Profile
routine to plot skewed utilities to profile
road > Profile Tools > Point Groups to Profile
updated with new labelling options, text will not overlap
road > Profile Tools > Display Elevations
routine to list elevation from profile by user entering stations
Site > DynaLOT > Edit Blocks along Pline
now adds and deletes blocks modified in dialog box
Site > DynaLOT > Blocks On Arcs
routine to place blocks at arc endpoints
Site > Express > Bill of Materials
Now allows you to count nested blocks and length by line type
Survey > Layout Tools > Centerline Station and offset pline
routine to calculate pline offset and distance and elevation from CL
Survey > Layout Tools > Service Connections
now allows you to put 2 points for each connection
Survey > Layout Tools > Centerline Station and Offset
now you can have multiple offsets defined in 1 pass
Survey > Layout Tools > Elev from CL
routine to place an elevation on select points or objects
Survey > Layout Tools > Field
added a save button
Survey > Point Tools > Multiply Elevation
routine to multiply aecc point objects by user defined factor
Changes in Civil Essentials April/May 2006
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Road > alignment tools > Add Curve Tables
now draws location of horizontal PI of curve
road > river tools > import from HEC
added option to import sections as 3d plines from SDF file created in HEC-RAS
road > river tools > import from HEC
added option to import stream CL from SDF file created in HEC-RAS
Survey > Layout Tools > Export alignments to DC
export multiple horizontal and vertical alignments to trimble dc format
Survey > Breakline Designer > Create 3d pline
New option to query surface at each vertex while drawing 3d poly
Survey > Breakline Designer > Edit 3d pline
New options to reverse, plot and label 3d poly
Changes in Civil Essentials March 2006
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site > DynaLOT > blocks at lot endpoints
now is UCS aware,
site > drafting tools > Block:Delta angle Rotate
now is UCS aware,
Road > Profile tools > CL Elev flags
now places stations with "+" and removes space before "%"
site > DynaLOT > Label Grade from Block to 3D Pline
new routine that labels grade, use for labellling driveway grade from house fron to curb
site > dynalot> Flatten Blocks
new routine to set block insertion Z to 0, the reverse of add Z
road > river tools > Create HEC-RAS SDF file from points and SDF file
new routine to update sdf file with points from dwg. Use this routine to paste points from dwg into section in an existing SDF file. Great way to merge survey data with models created from Lidar data
road > river tools > Create Hybrid Profile from points and Profiles
new routine to update profiles with points from dwg. Use this routine to paste points from dwg into existing profiles. Great way to merge survey data with models creating clean profiles.
Survey > Migration Tools
LDD to Civil 3D Description Key translator now moved to Survey Tools, also includes routine to import all blocks from a Folder into current dwg.
Survey > Mapping Tools
Mapping tools now moved to Survey Tools
Changes in Civil Essentials February 2006
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road > river tools > create alignments
new routine to create alignments from lines and plines that cross channel alignment, and
export alignment names to file
now will create, cut lines, bank positions and reach limits
road > river tools > Create profiles from surface
new routine will create and plot profile for each alignment selected
road > river tools > Process Sections from alignments and Surfaces
new routine to create profiles from a surface and a list of alignments
site > DynaLOT > Label-Design grade on arc
now places curved grade label
survey > pipeline tools> parcel percentage area report
new routine to display each parcel's area as a percentage of the total of all the areas of all the parcels
survey > layout tools> bolt pattern
new routine to output bolt locations based on number of bolts on each pier
road > road plan tools> 3 line profile
new options to dimension tranition profile along offset alignment in profile
Changes in Civil Essentials November 2005
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survey > breakline designer > Create breaklines from Descriptors
added option to define curves with multiple points
road > profile tool > Dimension Offset Alignment to Profile
new tool to dimension offset alignment to baseline profile
road > road plan tools> label superelevaion points
new routine to label station and descriptor of critical
superelevaion points in plan
Changes in Civil Essentials September and October 2005
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site > dynalot > Edit Block Elevations along Pline
new tool that selects all blocks along a pline and allows you to edit elevations and set grades
site > many areas> Contours to Cut Fill Balance Layers
updated so you can specify engineer fill contours
site > street tools> cul-de-sac and elbow
layers are now controlled in site > admin > steltman tool settings
Changes in Civil Essentials September 2005
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site > dynalot > Edit Block Elevations along Pline
new tool that selects all blocks along a pline and allows you to edit elevations and set grades
Changes in Civil Essentials August 2005
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survey >layout tools
all layout tools now work in Civil 3D
Site >Many Areas > Pond Volumes
New option to display in ft3 or yd3 or acre feet
Site >Many Areas > Volumes from Grid Tics and Parcels
Now totals areas, prompts if you wish to erase, cleaner display of results
Road >River Tools > Import Banks
new option to import banks or boundaries from HEC-RAS GIS export
Road>Road Design Tools >Blocks on Profile to offset alignment
new tools allows you to pick points and blocks on profile and locate them on an offset alignment
View AVi that shows how you create a 3D pline along an offset alignment from a pline on a profile. Usefull for watermains
Changes in Civil Essentials July 2005
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survey >layout tools > service connections
modified so you can export service connections by layer
survey >layout tools > MHS and Inverts
Now allows you to select which runs to export
Site >Street Tools > Cul-De-Sac
Now allows you to set radius to 0 on second return
Site >Many Areas > Volumes from tics
new options to allow you to set the colours and to import the results into the drawing
Road>Profile Tools >Label station and block
new option to allow you to place label by entering station, calculates elevation from design profile
View AVi that shows how you create a 3D pline along an offset alignment from a pline on a profile. Usefull for watermains
Changes in Civil Essentials June 2005
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survey >layout tools > Translate auf to nikon job
new routine converts auf file to nikon Transit format for stakeout
survey >drafting tools > lot lines
Now allows you to create parcels with widths based on front or rear setback
Site >Many Areas > Label Contours along pline
new routine to label all contours that cross user defined pline
Site >DynaLOT > 1 Lot
new option Backsplit walkout, sets grades to 2%, 3:1 on the bank, and the bank depth varies
Site >Street Tools > Multiple 3d plines
Now has a mirror button so template creation is even easier!
Pipes >Update rim elevation
now prompts for which runs to update
Road >Design Tools > Pline on Profile to Offset Alignment 3D Pline
new routine creates 3d pline along offset alignment, usefull for watermains
View AVi or go to web details on how to Create Civil 3D prototype drawing from LDD description keys and cogo block library
View AVi that shows how you can label contours along a pline
Changes in Civil Essentials May 2005
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Site >Dynalot > Place Elev in Descriptor by Delta
new routine places elevation in descriptor delta elevation from elev attribute. Use for setting basement elevations
Site >Many Areas > Pond Stage Storage Tables
Now allows you to save output to user defined file
Site >Many Areas > Import Parcels
New routine that allows you to draw parcels
Road >Section Tools > Label Plotted Sections
Now allows you to save output to user defined file
Site >Site Tools > rotate Text to Line
new routine that sets rotation angle of text to the same angle as selected line
View AVi that shows how you can draw service connections, driveways and optionally label distance from
manhole to sanitary service connection by selecting the mains and the lot lines
New Service to Create Civil 3D prototype drawing from LDD description keys and cogo block library
Changes in Civil Essentials April 2005
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Site >Dynalot > Place Block at XREF endpoints
new routine places elevations at selected lines in attached XREF
Road > Express > list line length in profile
New routine that lists the true length of a line in a Profile with Vertical Exageration
