Jump to content

Χρήσιμα εργαλεία για AutoCad, BricsCAD κ.λ.π.


Recommended Posts

CadTools, free 3D and surface utility for AutoCad, ZWCAD 2018-2021 and BricsCAD

Design your civil work in real 3D with this handy tool!


Latest update:
2022-10-03 Build 757

CadTools (ToolBox) is developed for Civil Engineers using CAD. There are a number of great software on the market supporting the design process of roads, rails etc. For minor design work CadTools can be very useful, it contains more than 50 commands mostly in real 3D to support your work.

CadToolsMain.gifBy combining separate commands through the work process you can achieve almost anything you want. When I developed the commands I certainly had some situations in mind but every command can be used in a variety of situations not only in civil work design.
With CadTools you can create your own surface models based on objects in the drawing or import triangles from DWG (other civil software). You can create profiles and cross-sections of multiple surfaces, calculate volumes and plot contours.
It's easy and fun creating real 3D models with CadTools commands, some of these commands can only be found in software that you have to pay money for.
I
work as a civil designer at one of Sweden's leading consulting companies. My main tool for civil design is Bentley InRoads/RailTrack, one of the best software I've seen. Sometimes you need something less complicated so I started developing CadTools while traveling to work by train.

After more than five years and thousands of hours of developing this software now is a powerful tool way beyond my first intentions. Honestly I can't be without it, hope you will feel the same.


CadTools is an out of process software and supports AutoCAD versions: 2001-2023. (vanilla and verticals i.e. Civil 3D). It also supports ZWCAD+ (2014-2015 and 2018-2023) and BricsCAD

 



Major Commands in CadTools are listed below. CadTools has a complete helpfile with images of command results.
 

Text
Insert or remove characters to single line text.
Align text to UCS and scale it.
Align Text to Left.
Send selected text to Excel
Line Aligned Text
Capitalize/Uncapitalize text

Lines
Area calculation of polylines based on color or layer. Results can be exported to Excel
Export polyline coordinates to Excel
Length calculate of polylines based on color or layer. Results can be exported to Excel
Reverse polyline
Point section and offset from polyline
Draw slopemarks from polylines

Offset 3DPolylines
Create cylinders (pipes) from polylines/lines.

Profile 3DPolyline
Create road signs and markings
Level out 3Dpolyline
Transverse 3D lines between 3D Polylines (3D Slope signs)

Join 3D Polylines
Draw Slope Arrows for 3Dpolylines (Ditch bottom slope direction)
Stationing Polyline

Line Aligned Text
Edit Polyline Elevation
and slope (In table)

Create 3D alignment from plan and profile
Best fit, 3D-polyline regression.
Simplify command for 3D-polylines
Set polyline elevation by nearest text, fixes contours with no elevation but text!

Lines/Polylines to EPANET INP-file

Layers
All layers on
All layers off but selected

All layers off but current
Layer off by object
Xref layer freeze by single object
Move to layer by object
Set current layer by object
Delete layer


Draw

Draw polylines, circles and blocks from coordinates. Paste from Excel to CadTools

 

Surface
Generate longitudinal features (ditch bottom, surface interception) with cut/fill tick marks.
Import Triangulated Surface from Graphic (from other software)
Triangle Volume and color cut/fill areas in plan.

Triangulate objects (create surface models)
Drape surface with objects and lines
Pick and annotate elevation from surface
Create wireframe surface
Cut & Fill areas in cross-sections
Create Surface Profiles
Create Surface Cross Section
View Surface Slope and Directio
n
View Perimeter for flat (or any slope interval) Surface Areas

Pick and annotate Slope vector from surface

Constrained triangulation (breaklines)
Surface Contours

Trickle, traces the path of a drop of water down a selected surface.
Volume by Elevation, triangle volumes at intervals
Trickle All, evaluate surface water paths.


Convert
Convert 3DPolylines to 2Dpolylines
Convert 3DFaces to 3Dpolylines
Convert arc to 3Dpolyline
Create coordinate grid

Place sloped text
Convert Circle to 3Dpolyline

Xref

Open Xref by Object
Detach Xref by Object

Save/Load Xref-settings to/from file

Block
Edit block attribute text
Annotate block elevation
Drainage network evaluation, evaluation of block (manholes) and Lines (pipes). Result in Excel
Export block information to Excel (coordinates, attribute values)

Hatch

Export Hatch area to Excel

Miscellaneous
Vehicle Turning Simulation (Vehicle Tracking)

Drafting
Annotate Profiles/Cross sections


Vehicle Turning Simulation (Swept path analysis). Configure vehicles of your own and do analysis in the drawing. Much faster design than using turning templates.

Roundabout.gif Form.gif 

 

Create surface cross-sections as 2D or 3D. Display crossing reference lines

CrossSection_0.gif
 
 

Surface Contours

Contours.gif
 

View Surface slope and direction.
Easily detect flat areas.
Perimeter of areas with userdefined slopes.

ViewSloped_0.gif

Create real 3D cut and fill by applying end-conditions to 3Dpolylines.
Very simple and powerful step by step process.


Transversal_2.gif


Create Give Way

giveway.gif


Create Chevrons

Chevron.gif


Limitations:
CadTools does not work with AutoCadLT
. Some features are limited for unregistered users.

Windows Vista users! Problems running CadTools? Probably it's Vista's UAC dabbling, try to launch CadTools as an Administrator. Simply find the shortcut for CadTools, right click on it then in the Compatibility tab select the option that say: Run this program as an Administrator.

If you are using Bricscad you will find the Vehicle Turning in
BricsTurn. The Vehicle Turning is also available as a freeware for Microstation V8. MSTurn


Downloads
Download (MSI-file, ca 7,2 Mb), Last updated 2022-10-03 Build 757
Alternative download (ca 13,5 Mb Zip-file containing complete installation and update plus reference manual)
Update for CadTools (ca
3,8 Mb), Last updated 2022-10-03 Build 757
Download update only. If you already installed CadTools and only need the update, use this link.


Additional downloads
Reference Manual English (ca 2,6 Mb) (PDF document, printed documentation 112 pages, updated 2014-06-20)
Reference Manual Italian (Translated by Gennaro Bellaiuto)
Video Samples (Collection of video demonstrations)
Default Vehicle library (metric) Vehicle samples in metric units
Default Vehicle library (imperial, 2013-05-13) Vehicle samples in imperial units

Portable version of Build 7
48
CadToolsPortable (ca 47 Mb) Run CadTools from a USB stick (Virtualized)

 

πηγή glamsen.se

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ευχαριστούμε!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Δημιουργήστε έναν λογαριασμό ή συνδεθείτε για να σχολιάσετε

Πρέπει να είστε μέλος για να αφήσετε ένα σχόλιο

Δημιουργία λογαριασμού

Εγγραφείτε για έναν νέο λογαριασμό στην κοινότητά μας. Είναι εύκολο!

Εγγραφή νέου λογαριασμού

Είσοδος

Έχετε ήδη λογαριασμό? Συνδεθείτε εδώ.

Είσοδος Τώρα
×
×
  • Δημιουργία Νέου...