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[Anonymous]

A question in regards to manhole schedules within civil3D. I’m able to add a column for depth to invert but I’ve been asked to amend this so it can show cover depth. Civil3D doesn’t have a drop down in text component editor for this and as far as I’m aware you can’t create expressions in the text component editor.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Secondly are you able to create your own property in the text component editor?

[tcorey]

"Cover" is a Pipe property, not a Structure property and there are no Reference Text associations to Pipes. A little more ability to cross-reference from pipes to structures, and vice-versa, would be helpful. I don't think you're going to accomplish this feat without custom programming.

For example, using VisualLISP, this code will let you select a pipe and will create a variable MaxCov for maximum cover and MinCov for minimum cover:

;create variable for min cover and max cover

(defun c:go()

  (vl-load-com)

  (setq pip (vlax-ename->vla-object (car (entsel "\nSelect Pipe: ")))
	mincov (vlax-get-property pip 'MinimumCover)
	maxcov (vlax-get-property pip 'MaximumCover)
	)
  (princ)
  )