Inside Track

Welcome to the AUGI Inside Track! Check out the latest opportunities to advance your skills, processes, and workflows in your firm with the most current AEC-related software and hardware updates available.

CROSSWIRES

https://apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/ Index?id=8403098009239569515&appLan g=en&os=Win32_64

Autodesk AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD MEP, Civil 3D®, and AutoCAD Plant 3D Versions: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 Autodesk AutoCAD P&ID: Version: 2017

This is a simple plug-in for performing the one thing: create arc at the point where one-line crosses another (analog of line jump for connectors in Visio).

It can be very handy for enhancing electrical schemas readability when a lot of crossing wires on one drawing are present.

QR CODES 2016-2022

https://apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/ Index?id=7854648785059363913&appLan g=en&os=Win32_64

Autodesk AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD MEP, Civil 3D®, AutoCAD Map 3D, and AutoCAD Plant 3D Versions: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 Autodesk AutoCAD P&ID Version: 2017

Make text in your drawings scannable using any mobile phone or tablet with a camera. All you need is one of many available QR code reader applications for your device and this plug-in.

QR Codes, also called mobile barcodes, can represent plain text, URLs, contact information, or geographic coordinates (using the FIELD command). Any existing text objects can be converted to QR codes by setting the Optically Scannable (text) property to ‘yes’ in the Property palette.

STYLE COMPONENT FIND AND REPLACE

https://apps.autodesk.com/CIV3D/en/ Detail/Index?id=8629213286347851577&ap pLang=en&os=Win64

Autodesk® Civil 3D® Versions: 2018 – 2022 ATTACH TOPOSURFACE

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/ Index?id=6309856351517298628&appLang =en&os=Win64

Autodesk Revit: Version: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

This is a plug-in that allows you to attach toposurface to any edge, any face or floor elements. This could be used in developing site to create roads, sidewalks, etc. The app has the convenience of letting you pick edges faces or elements in a continuous loop until you hit the escape key to exit the command.

AUGIWorld brings you recent developments in Autodesk and related software items

Style Component Find and Replace is an Autodesk® Civil 3D® add-in application that allows a user to search Civil 3D styles and settings for an Autodesk® AutoCAD® property. If desired, the user can replace usages with a different property. This application is useful for a CAD Manager that is responsible for creating and maintaining Civil 3D templates. Features include:

Properties searchable: layers, text styles, blocks, line type, line weight, color and plot style

The application searches for usages in styles, object layers, label style defaults and command settings

What styles/settings are using a particular property

Replace usages of a property with another property

Use a wildcard (*) to search for multiple properties for example, to search all layers starting with C-ANNO-TABL, enter search criteria: C-ANNO-TABL-*

Use separate command “cmi_c3d_style_bmtoggle” to toggle on or off all Civil 3D background masks

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