Parcel Map Check HTML Report mods

[Anonymous]

For those of you that have tried to submit lot closure calcs to the local
agency and have been snickered at for using the stock C3D report.....this
one's for you.

I did not like the way these reports looked, at all. Nor does anyone else
around these parts. Maybe the stock reports work just fine in other parts of
the world, but I had to figure out a way to get them more presentable for
us. So far I have only worked on the MapCheck report and I have it to a
point that I think is much more usable. And, it uses far less paper when
printed out than the stock report does. Also, the stock report does not let
you sort the parcels so they are output in the order they were created. I
have added a sort function that allows you to sort by any of the columns in
the Parcel Listbox, thus allowing you to actually have the report in the
order of the Parcel Numbers. Another, smaller, change is that I do not show
the actual parcel Name. I do show the parcel description, but if there is no
description then I use the Parcel Number for the description.

I'm attaching a PNG showing the 2010 stock report on the left, and my
modified report on the right. At this time I have only compiled it for use
with 2009, but will be porting it to 2010 once I'm sure it's working as
desired.

If anyone has any comments, or would like a copy of the revised .NET DLL,
just let me know. Until I get it working correctly with all of the .NET
reports, I will not be posting the source code though.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

Update:  No security issues and it looks like others using W7 and 64bit have seen results so I must be missing something.

Thanks again, Rich

[ryanquigley2390]

Can someone tell me how to "edit the target" to point to this DLL?

I'm using C3D 2011

[Jeff_M]

On the Toolbox tab of Toolspace, click the red folder with the pencil icon (1) in the attached image. Expand the treeview in the Panorama to show the Parcel Reports, select the (2) Parcel Map Check Report, edit the (3) path & file name for the execute file (you can type it in or browse to it by clicking the icon to the right (not shown in this image).

[ryanquigley2390]

Thanks Jeff, I like it.

[Anonymous]

Hi Jeff, Would you be willing to share your code? I've been meaning to do this as well, but I have been caught up in writing other programs. -Mark P.

[Jeff_M]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Hi Jeff, Would you be willing to share your code? I've been meaning to do this as well, but I have been caught up in writing other programs. -Mark P.

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I'll post it in the customization group shortly.

Edit - Posted HERE

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

Finally figured the "Resource" file needed to be in the same folder.  The report now works and is a welcome improvement.

Thanks,  Rich

[Jeff_M]

Ah, glad you got that figured out, Rich! Glad you find it useful.

[Anonymous]

Hey Jeff,

We recently upgraded to C3D 2013 and wondering if you have an updated version of your map check report?

Thanks for all your help!

Paul

[Jeff_M]

No, I have not yet had a need for it (stuck in 2012 right now). I'll see if I can port it to 2013 this weekend.

[sfuller]

Jeff,

Any luck with porting this over to 2013?  It would be greatly appreciated.  😃

[IanMcClain]

Jeff,

Is it possible to have the report list both square footage and acreage? I was looking at the XML reporting units and it looked like it could only do square feet and square meters. Showing square footage and acreage would be sweet, though.

[Jeff_M]

Ian, while possible it's not trivial. The way the reports are written is to use the Parcel Ambient Settings. I guess one could add some code to have it check what the current setting is (square feet, square meters, acres, hectares, etc.) and have a secondary output based on that.

[Jeff_M]

Actually , this wasn't too difficult to add the acres portion when the parcel area units are set to square feet. That's the only one I changed, Attached are 2 zips, one for 2012, another for 2013. I will work on one for 2014 soon.

This is what the output now looks like:

Perimeter: 5185.353' Area: 1068902.56 Sq.Ft. (24.54 Acres)
Error Closure: 0.0020 Brg: N17° 10' 30"W
Error North : 0.00192 E: -0.00059

[Jeff_M]

When I had created the previous modified reports I had used the same source code from back in 2009 or 2010. Autodesk has updated their source to allow saving to different file formats and my previously posted code does not. So here is a new modified report based on the C3D2013 source code. I think I have made all of the changes previously made, except this time I added an option to include the segment #'s or leave them off. When the parcel area units is set to square feet, I added acres to the output.

Note that this file contains only the ParcelMapCheck code, so do not rename and copy over the the existing C3DReports.dll. Instead, place it in a folder and edit the Toolbox to add the location and set the macro name ParcelMapCheck. If anyone wants the source code, just ask.

[Anonymous]

I would love a copy. Will this functionality make its way to Sinc Pac?

dmartin@pcsengineers.com

[Jeff_M]

Dave, you want the source code? No, I have no plans to incorporate these reports with SincpacC3D.

[Anonymous]

Jeff M, could you possible include a screen shot of where to "edit the Toolbox to add the location and set the macro name ParcelMapCheck." I would like to run your code, but I've never really dealt with this side of CAD before.

Thanks,
Chris

[Jeff_M]

Chris, it's all in the Help:

Toolbox Editing

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

When you said to "edit the Toolbox to add the location" were you talking about right clicking on the Parcel report and adding a "New Tool"? Then pointing the execute file to your modified one and using ParcelMapCheck as the Macro Name. I have set the execute type to .NET but after saving, the report does not show up in the toolbox (even after refreshing) and it also fails when I try to execute it in toolbox editor. I am trying to use this in Civil 2014 if that makes a difference.

Thanks,

Chris