Showing posts with label Find and Replace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Find and Replace. Show all posts

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Civil 3D Find and Replace

Have you have had to rename a lot of different objects in Civil 3D? Or even have to change the descriptions?

For instance if you grade in a channel, you might make an alignment called Channel 5, which will also have a profile called Channel 5, which is on a profile view called Channel 5, which has an assembly called Channel 5, which all makes up a corridor called Channel 5, which has a corridor surface called Channel 5, which is pasted in a surface with a name reference to Channel 5. Then the engineer decides to renumber the channels... now your channel is Channel 100. Oh and there are about 15 different channels like this in your drawing. Good luck making sure everything reads as it should for the next person who uses the file.

This drove me to write a new command... C3D Find and Replace. I mean we can do a find and replace on regular text, why not on names and descriptions of objects???

Here are a few screenshots and a video showing the command in action.















You can watch the command in action here.