# Civil 3D Dynamo - Viewport Creation

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981>\
**Category:** Civil 3D\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981 "2025-01-03T23:44:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jbrunkhorst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jbrunkhorst](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jbrunkhorst)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981/1 "2025-01-03T23:44:54Z")

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I am trying to automate viewport creation using Dynamo. I see a good amount of information about using the Rhythm package for Revit to do at least something similar to what I want, but I don’t see those nodes available to me in Civil 3D. Does anyone else have any advice on another package, ability to create a custom node, or something the like? Ultimately, I want to take polylines and then use those to generate viewports in separate layout tabs. Thank you in advance!

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**Author:** ![zachri.jensen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/zachri.jensen/32/205331_2.png) [@zachri.jensen](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/zachri.jensen)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981/2 "2025-01-04T00:05:01Z")

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Hi @jbrunkhorst,

If you’re able to use Civil 3D 2025.1 or newer, there’s actually a sample graph that does something very similar. Perhaps it can give you some inspiration 🙂

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/d/1/d14ba4279a1defcfc917a056c962d21e37bb313a.jpeg)

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/2/9239718cf90a9d211c68949897840b0bc3a4929c.gif)

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**Author:** ![jbrunkhorst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jbrunkhorst](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jbrunkhorst)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981/3 "2025-01-06T15:12:16Z")

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Awesome - thank you! My company has started trying to package the 2025 install on our computers here in Q1. Hopefully that happens soon and I can dig into this a bit deeper there. Do you have any resources that you would find helpful in creating a custom node for something like a viewport creation? or another Civil 3D command that isn’t there out-of-the-box in Dynamo?

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**Author:** ![zachri.jensen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/zachri.jensen/32/205331_2.png) [@zachri.jensen](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/zachri.jensen)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981/4 "2025-01-06T15:32:14Z")

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I’m not 100% sure, but off the top of my head I seem to remember that the Civil 3D Toolkit package had a similar node? Not at my PC so I can’t check right now 🙂

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**Author:** ![JBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@JBroad](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/JBroad)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/civil-3d-dynamo-viewport-creation/106981/5 "2026-01-13T14:17:52Z")

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@zachri.jensen are you able to post the file of that example graph? I currently don’t have access to Civil 3D 2025, but I am very interested in this. Hopefully, there aren’t any nodes that are specific to 2025.