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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: 20 22 -02-08 Build 751

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

By combining dissever commands through the piece of work process you can achieve almost annihilation yous 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 y'all 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 cantankerous-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 tin only be establish in software that you take to pay money for.
I work as a civil designer at one of Sweden'southward leading consulting companies. Yardy main tool for civil design is Bentley InRoads/RailTrack, 1 of the best software I've seen. Sometimes you demand something less complicated so I started developing CadTools while traveling to work by train.

Later on more than than five years and thousands of hours of developing this software at present is a powerful tool way beyond my commencement intentions. Honestly I can't be without it, hope yous will feel the same.

CadTools is an out of procedure software and supports AutoCAD versions: 2001-twenty 22 . (vanilla and verticals i.e. Civil 3D). It also supports ZWCAD+ (2014-2015 and 2018-2022) and BricsCAD

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Major C ommands in CadTools are listed below. CadTools has a complete helpfile with images of control results.

Text Insert or remove characters to unmarried line text. Align text to UCS and calibration it. Align Text to Left. Send selected text to Excel Line Aligned Text Capitalize/Uncapitalize text Lines Area calculation of polylines based on colour or layer. Results tin can be exported to Excel Export polyline coordinates to Excel Length calculate of polylines based on colour or layer. Results tin be exported to Excel Contrary polyline Signal section and beginning 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 betwixt 3D Polylines (3D Slope signs) Join 3D Polylines Draw Slope Arrows for 3Dpolylines (Ditch bottom slope management) Stationing Polyline Line Aligned Text Edit Polyline Meridian and gradient (In tabular array ) Create 3D alignment from plan and profile Best fit, 3D-polyline regression. Simplify command for 3D-polylines Set polyline summit by nearest text, fixes contours with no elevation simply text! Lines/Polylines to EPANET INP-file Layers All layers on All layers off but selected All layers off but electric current Layer off by object Xref layer freeze past unmarried object Motility to layer by object Set current layer past 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 cutting/make full tick marks. Import Triangulated Surface from Graphic (from other software) Triangle Volume and color cutting/make full areas in plan. Triangulate objects (create surface models) Drape surface with objects and lines Pick and annotate height from surface Create wireframe surface Cut & Fill areas in cross-sections Create Surface Profiles Create Surface Cross Section View Surface Slope and Directio due north View Perimeter for apartment (or any slope interval) Surface Areas Choice and annotate Slope vector from surface Constrained triangulation (breaklines) Surface Contours Trickle, traces the path of a drib of water down a selected surface. Volume past Elevation, triangle volumes at intervals Trickle All, evaluate surface h2o paths. Convert Catechumen 3DPolylines to 2Dpolylines Convert 3DFaces to 3Dpolylines Convert arc to 3Dpolyline Create coordinate grid Place sloped text Convert Circle to 3Dpolyline Xref Open Xref past Object Detach Xref by Object Save/Load Xref-settings to/from file Cake Edit block attribute text Annotate block tiptop Drainage network evaluation, evaluation of block (manholes) and Lines (pipes). Outcome in Excel Consign block information to Excel (coordinates, attribute values) Hatch Export Hatch area to Excel Miscellaneous Vehicle Turning Simulation (Vehicle Tracking) Drafting Annotate Profiles/Cross sections

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

Create surface cross-sections equally 2nd or 3D . Display crossing reference lines
Surface Contours

View Surface gradient and direction. Easily detect flat areas. Perimeter of areas with userdefined slopes.	Create real 3D cut and fill by applying end-conditions to 3Dpolylines. Very unproblematic and powerful step by pace procedure.
Create Give Fashion	Create Chevrons

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Limitations:
CadTools does non piece of work with AutoCadLT . Some features are express for unregistered users.

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

If y'all are using Bricscad you will find the Vehicle Turning in BricsTurn . The Vehicle Turning is also bachelor as a freeware for Microstation V8. MSTurn Downloads
Download (MSI-file, ca 7,2 Mb), Last updated 202 two -02-08 Build 75 i
Culling download (ca 13,v Mb Naught-file containing consummate installation and update plus reference transmission)
Update for CadTools (ca 3,eight Mb), Terminal updated xx2 ii - 02-08 Build 7 51
Download update only. If you already installed CadTools and only need the update, use this link . Boosted downloads
Reference Manual English (ca 2,6 Mb) (PDF document, printed documentation 112 pages, updated 2014-06-twenty)
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 purple units

Portable version of Build 7

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CadToolsPortable (ca 47 Mb) Run CadTools from a USB stick (Virtualized)

CadTools Forum

Online discussion site for CadTools.

How much should I donate? At that place is no right answer to that, the result is always the same no matter how much or picayune you donate.
Received donations are used for paying Server, Domain and Software fees.

Please annotation that donation notifications are sent to me from PayPal past electronic mail and I manually send you a registration electronic mail as presently as possible.
Generally I respond same twenty-four hour period. If you haven't received a responding email in a couple of days, check your spam filter or post a message to me in CadTools forum. lars.karlsson@glamsen.se

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Latest update ( 2022-02 -08 Build seven51 )
Bugfix: Exporting MText to Excel resulted in missing character (last character)

Update ( 2021-x -30 Build seven50 )
Bugfix: View Surface Slope Direction, when using a scale factor arrows pointing in incorrect direction (upwards)
Added: User setting for number of decimal places for contour annotations (Surface Contours command)

U pdate ( 2021-09 -12 Build 74 9 )
Selection to plot cross-sections in reverse direction .

Update ( xx21-08 -09 Build vii4 eight )
Added back up for AutoCAD 2022 and BricsCAD .

Update ( twenty21-07 -x Build 74 7 )
Changed behavior of notation kickoff parameter in stationing command, null offset at present put the note text (insertion point) aligned to the alignment.

Update ( 2021-06- 22 Build 74 vi )
F ixed bug while exporting to SpreadSheet (Lines/Area/Block/volume). This is just when you don't accept Excel installed

Update ( xxtwo one -05- 3 1 Build 74 v )
Added support for AutoCAD 2022

Update ( twenty20-12- eleven Build 7iv 4 )
CadTools internal Spread Sheet had problems with copying. Re-create All worked just not Copy Selected. This is now fixed.

Update ( 20twenty-12- 03 Build vii4 3 )
The preview window in "Create Longitudinal Features" didn't evidence up.

Update ( 20xx-11- 24 Build 74 2 )
Exporting to spreadsheet with setting "Excel is not installed on this computer" did not showed CadTools internal SpreadSheet.

Update ( 2020-11- 06 Build 74 i )
Added back up for ZWCAD 2021

Update ( twentyxx-10- 2 vii Build 740 )
Stock-still a delivery bug in previous update, I missed to exclude test code.

Update ( 2020-10- 26 Build 739 )
Extended "Depict from Coordinates" with "Multiple Block insert" blazon and Layer overrides for type "Text at Point"

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