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    Civil Tools

    Last revised: January 25, 2012

    The download for this utility can be found here.

    Description

    Civil/Site Tools (CivTools) is an application designed for Surveying and Civil/Site users.

    NOTE: This utility application includes very basic surveying and civil/site capabilities. The Bentley Road and Site Design Solutions provides much more comprehensive functionality -- click here for more information.

    Installation Instructions

    CivTools.ma and CivTools.DLL should be copied into the same folder (i.e. ..\mdlapps\).

    To load CivTools

    Key in: MDL LOAD CIVTOOLS from the Key-in Browser

     

    or

    from Utilities > MDL Applications > Browse, select CivTools

    The Civil/Site Tools palette displays.

    Place Contour

    Used to place 3D line-string or curve-strings that represent contours. Turn on the Planar option to place contours. If the Planar option is off, you can key in different elevations for each datapoint to allow breaklines to be easily defined.

    Label Contour

    Allows you to label contours individually or in groups. You can label groups by striking a line across all the elements to be labeled. Only contours on major or minor contour levels (as defined in the CivTools parameters) are processed.

    Place Breakline

    Provides the ability to place breaklines as lines or curves at a specific elevation and optionally increment or decrement the elevation of successive vertices.

    Place Coordinate

    Allows you to place a coordinate marker with the respective Northing and Easting coordinates (and optionally the elevation) of an identified point. You can choose the output prefixes and suffixes as well as the order of the NE or EN
    coordinate output (the latter is in the Coordinates tab of the Civil Tool Properties dialog).

    Modify Contour

    Allows you to modify contour vertices without modifying the vertices' elevation.

    Set Elevation by Crossing

    Modify the elevations of sequential contours (identified by a crossing line) to a user-specified absolute or delta interval.

    Set Element Elevation

    Enables you to set Z value for all vertices of a line-string, curve-string, or complex-string to a specified value.

    Place Spot Elevation

    Enables you to place text and an optional marker to marker elevation. The elevation can either be keyed in, or taken from the datapoint elevation.

    Place Composite Curve

    Provides the ability to place "curves" using straight lines and arcs.

    Civil Tools Settings

    Allows you to set the level, symbology, and size of the all the elements placed using the Civil/Site tools.

    By default, CivTools uses what is set in Settings > Design File... > Working Units > Linear Units for coordinate placement. You can override that with the "Use Design File Settings" setting in this dialog. Note that not all coordinate readout values are available when overriding Design File Working Unit Linear Units.
    The parameter resource file: civtools.rsc, gets saved in ..\Workspace\system\data\ (default). You may want to experiment with the configuration variable MS_CIVTOOLSPREFS, as that can be set to a file name that specifies the file that you want to use. In order for the civtools.rsc file to be created, one of the commands of the available CivTools must be activated.  

    Please post any questions or comments regarding this utility in the Bentley Library Forum.


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    • Phil Chouinard Created by Phil Chouinard
    • When: Mon, Jun 28 2010 3:24 PM
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    • When: Mon, Oct 8 2018 6:26 AM
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