Today Arkance Systems Node Library version 6.0 is published. About 70 new nodes and several improvements were made.
What’s new:
Offset Alignments and widenings:
result in:
Read data from a Civil 3D Table:
The Profile View category has a few great new nodes like placement of Station and Elevation Labels:
Also new nodes to get the exaggeration, a point based on station and elevation and a station and elevation based on a point inside the Profile View.
The Profile category contains new nodes to get the top view and side view geometry, the visibility and style override in a Profile View.
Rectangular polycurves can be created with ease, also drawn at an angle:
Placing Images References in the drawing is quite easy, a filename or a bitmap object, a location and scale is enough.
Named Views is a complete new section. New Views can be created by two points, a centerpoint and radius, or by UCS.
Zoom to objects, a window or a Named View is new.
And new nodes to create screenshots from parts of the drawing is now possible too:
Could be interesting to create shots of each junction, parcel, pipeline hub or you name it, to create documentation screenshots.
What’s improved:
Several improvements were made to the Layer Create nodes (had some issues), blocks/tables/texts/points and QR codes can be placed on a Layout if desired. Spirals in Alignments result in short straights when converting them to PolyCurves and Surface and Profile View Labels are now placed on the layer as set in the drawing settings.
A few nodes are moved to other categories, so if you miss some, it is probably moved to a better category.
Enjoy the new version!