DWF’s – Freedom & Mobility

For those of you who seem to always be on the run and can’t always find the time to pull out your laptop, find a wireless signal and wait for AutoCAD to open your CAD files, I have come across a neat feature of Autodesk’s Project Freewheel along with a few minor downfalls.

Recently Added – CC_APN

I have recently uploaded a new LISP routine for use with Clark County APN’s in Southern Nevada. To take a look at the routine and to get your copy, visit the Localization Customization tutorial section, or follow the link below.

Clark County APN Utilities

Clark County Nevada APN Utilities

Over the years, while I have been drafting I have wanted to have an easy way to quickly and easily access information that is connected to the APN (Assessor’s Parcel Number) from within CAD. As a result of this, I have come up with the Clark County Nevada APN Utilities. This little program is aimed at making it easier for drafter to access parcel information from text entities within AutoCAD. All features use the default Internet browser to obtain information. Below is a list of features:

• Quickly open an APN map from the Clark County Assessor’s Office just by selecting text, along with
• Soils maps
• Expanded soil maps
• Perform parcel document searches
• Obtain parcel information (From Clark County OpenWeb Info Mapper)
• Obtain parcel aerial imagery (From Clark County OpenWeb Info Mapper)
• Obtain extended parcel data from the county assessor
• Perform flood zone inquiries using the FloodView Advanced as provided by the Clark County Regional Flood Control District

Lot Station & Elevation Labels

I have been using a program called CMI Tools by CadMasters for the last few years, and it has been great for the use with Land Desktop, but now that Civil 3D is finally getting all of the ‘bugs’ out, things are becoming more dynamic. One of the commands in CMI Tools that I use a lot labels the station and elevation at a lot line based upon your proposed finished grade profile. Now that there are all of these cool dynamic label styles in Civil 3D, I wanted to find something that would allow me to label lots in the same way, but using dynamic styles at the same time.

Extended Parcel Area Report

I was in need of a custom XML report to calculate a few ‘extended’ statistics when I have defined my parcels and exported the XML info. The items that I needed were a total parcel count, total parcel coverage, minimum parcel size and name (parcel with least area), maximum parcel size and name (parcel with greatest area), and average parcel size for the project.

Engineering Nevada

This is a blog to help Autodesk Civil 3D 2008 users. I will cover items that I am actually working on from styles to custom XML reports for LandXML 7. Please feel free to correct me when needed and feel free ask me questions. I hope this helps you.

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