AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

There is a new technology preview on Labs:

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/bim_coordinator/

Please give this a try and share your experience of coordinating your coordinate systems between AutoCAD Civil 3D and Revit Structure. The team is collecting feedback from the 2012 user base. You can email reply to this thread.

[#2]

Will this shared coordinate system data follow through into Navisworks?

[#3]

This looks like a step in the right direction.  What would make it even better is if the files would push automatically without requiring the architect to save another dwg every so often--keeping a dynamic link between the civils and the architects.

On another question, your video showed a C3D modeled site.  How did you model all the materials?  Are they solids?

Finally, does the transfer work the other way too?  How well can Revit view our site data?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[#4]

Will this work inside of the 2013 product line? if so were you looking to post a sample data set?

Watching the video it looks like what we have been waiting for, in the near future is it going to plug into AIM???

Good job guys keep up the great work.

Keith

[#5]

I am a Chinese engineer.

I found this tool counldn't be used on c3d 2012 simplified Chinese. Indeed I couldn't see the icon.

But it's run normal on revit 2012 simplified Chinese.

Would you please help me to solve the problem?

[#6]

Yes one of the key requirements here was that the Revit model was positioned correctly in Navisworks aswell as back into the AutoCAD environment.

Watch the video as it shows this in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSxbv7QPero

Civil regards

Jack Strongitharm

Industry Solutions Manager

[#7]

Interoperability is very important with our own products moving forward as to why this tool was made available in this form now.

The site in Civil 3D was modelled as one surface using breaklines etc.

Then I created separate surfaces for each area and pasted in the master design surface and then limited the surface by a boundary, in most cases the linework I used to create the surface originally.  So I was then able to set a separate texture etc.  Also always dynamic.

This method has improved much more in 2013 release of Civil 3D with automatic surface boundaries.

So not solids, just normal Civil 3D TIN based surfaces.

For bringing this data into Revit, watch this video as it shows the workflow with either your TIN surface triangles or contours.  The Revit Toposurface is a point surface and does not support breakline edge definition, so is not as accurate as Civil 3D, but is sufficient to design your Revit model in context, sections etc.

Click here

Civil regards

Jack Strongitharm

Industry Solutions Manager

[#8]

We are looking at the feedback given for the 2012 release first.

So more feedback the better, submitted through the Labs feedback system

Jack Strongitharm

Industry Solutions Manager

[#9]

Hi,

We add the toolbox entries explicitly for English version of C3D Toolbox (apologies – there was a limited time to write the installer). However, you should be able to use it via one of the following 2 workarounds:

1)      If you want it in Toolbox, we add additional toolbox entry as: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Data\Toolbox\ToolBoxCfg_AC_AcCoordSysExport.xml. All you need to do is to copy the xml file to whatever the Simplified Chinese locale equivalent for “enu” is (I think it’s “chs”).

2)      To use it without Toolbox, run NETLOAD command and load (typical location for Windows 7): C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2012\Autodesk Consulting\RVTDWGCoordsSyncAcadClient\AcRVTDWGCoordsSyncAcadClient.dll. After this, command AcCoordSysExport should be available to type in C3D command window.

BTW, this solution is applicable to all non-enu locales…

Hope this helps.

Miro

Miroslav Schonauer

Solution Architect / Senior Technical Consultant

Autodesk Consulting

[#10]

This looks like a great product, but nobody I know can get it installed correctly, it appears in the installed program list, but nothing appears within either civil 3d or Revit.