Infrastructure Modeling DevBlog

Setting the Working Folder for Civil 3D Survey Projects using .NET API

By Partha Sarkar

Using AutoCAD Civil 3D UI tools we can conveniently set the working folder for Survey Projects.

 

 

If you want to do the same using Civil 3D .NET API, you need to use SurveyProjectCollection.WorkingFolder API. Using this API we can get or set the working folder for survey projects.

 

Here is a C# .NET code snippet on how to use this API : 

SurveyProjectCollection surveyProjColl = CivilApplication.SurveyProjects;

 

// print the current working folder name

 

ed.WriteMessage("\nSurvey Projects Working Folder Before Change : " + surveyProjColl.WorkingFolder.ToString());

 

// now change the working folder location

surveyProjColl.WorkingFolder = "c:\\Temp";

 

// print the current working folder name after change

ed.WriteMessage("\nSurvey Projects Working Folder After Change : " + surveyProjColl.WorkingFolder.ToString());

Updating PipeLabel Style using Civil 3D API

By Partha Sarkar

 

Label.StyleName API allows to get or set the Entity object's style name and we can use this to update PipeLabel Style.

Here is a C# .NET code snippet :

PipeLabel pipeLbl = ts.GetObject(pipeLblID, OpenMode.ForWrite) asPipeLabel;

 

// Label.StyleName Property -> Gets or sets the Entity object's style name.         

ed.WriteMessage("\nStyle Name Before Change : " + pipeLbl.StyleName.ToString());

 

// Now update the Style

pipeLbl.StyleName = "2D Length - Total Span";

ed.WriteMessage("\nStyle Name After Change : " + pipeLbl.StyleName.ToString());

 

In the following screenshot we can see a particular Label Style being used for Pipe Object in Civil 3D.

 

And here we see by updating the StyleName how the Label style is changed :