Autodesk’s Global Delivery Consulting (GCD) employees create innovate and impactful tools and solutions for our customers.
Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery employees – Paolo Serra, Ian McGregor and Mohamed Ahmed – turned a manual and error-prone process for transferring data from Civil 3D to Revit into an efficient and scalable solution that enabled real-time information exchange using Dynamo. Over the course of several years, the solution evolved into a popular product feature and eventually moved to open source.CivilConnection and CivilPython
“CivilConnection is the name of the Dynamo custom package for Dynamo for Revit that enables the Civil 3D - Dynamo - Revit technology stack for Autodesk Consulting engagements that have been known as "Linear Structures.” It enables the usage of a linear reference system defined in an open Civil 3D document (e.g., a corridor, alignment, feature line, etc.) to create and/or update elements in a Revit document. It also enables you to import and update the elements from a Revit document into a Civil 3D document.”
CivilConnection is a Dynamo for Revit package for Autodesk® Revit and Autodesk® Civil 3D. It enables the exchange of information between Civil 3D, Dynamo and Revit.
CivilPython is a command for Autodesk® Civil 3D that enables the execution of Python scripts accessing AutoCAD and Civil 3D .NET APIs.
If you have questions, post to the Dynamo forums (https://forum.dynamobim.com/) where you can learn more of the capabilities or the right way of using the tools, and find examples and discussion to get going with CivilConnection.
Also in the spirit of opensource and community, post your improvements and bugs use the dedicated page on GitHub. https://github.com/Autodesk/civilconnection
Resources:
Open Source repository https://github.com/Autodesk/civilconnection
Computational Design for Civil Engineers
https://architosh.com/2019/04/new-autodesk-civil-3d-gets-powered-by-new-dynamo-integration/
Autodesk University 2017 Class
Design Automation by Parametric Design of a Viaduct with Dynamo and Revit in 20 minutes
See how design automation can reduce modelling time and increase alternative study so your clients maybe offered to chose from more options and save you. Paolo Serra and Michel Beliën
Checkout Paolo Serra’s AU 2020 class!
Computational Design for Civil Engineers
Learn how to use Dynamo and Civil 3D to create automated workflows for rail, roads, and site development. Paolo Serra, Safi Hage
