Label & Band Sets

[Ahmed.Kamal.Moussa]

I tried to find nodes for alignment, profile label sets and profile view band sets in Civil3DToolkit, Camber & Arkance packages but with no luck. Can anybody show me how I can get drop down data (menu) selection nodes for label and band sets in dynamo?

[Daan]

Hi @Ahmed.Kamal.Moussa ,

When I have to create dropdown menus myself I always use the Data-Shapes package.

[WrightEngineering]

I think you can get the band set styles from iterating through the list of band set styles with a count of the number of band set styles using exposed info here through python?
https://help.autodesk.com/view/CIV3D/2023/ENU/?guid=3d7d077d-5517-f48f-90f9-178fbe17b2fd

[hosneyalaa]

Can you see this

Create Profile Views by Alignment

Adding Band Sets to the above code I am getting problems, I have looked through api docs and I am confused as to how to get the id’s for Profile views Band Set styles, I thought maybe it was spacing in names so added underscores , but it appears I am referencing wrong styles! help appreciated: [image] import clr # Add Assemblies for AutoCAD and Civil 3D APIs clr.AddReference('acmgd') clr.AddReference('acdbmgd') clr.AddReference('accoremgd') clr.AddReference('AecBaseMgd') clr.AddReference('A…

And

Set ProfileView Band profile 1 or profile 2 to new profile

Back in the day (as python and dynamo newbie, so it is messy) I was experimenting with this without succes. I remember it ran without warnings, but it did not set the profiles as it should have, and it made the profile views buggy as well. All show label ticks disappeared for some reason, thus the show label part in the code, but after the first run the views got buddy and the labels always disappeared. So here’s that code, but use it at your own risk: # Load the Python Standard and DesignScri…

[mzjensen]

For the profile label sets in particular, there’s a reason they haven’t been added to Camber, and I suspect the reason might be the same for the others as well. See response below. The same applies for alignment label sets.

Add Profile View Station Elevation Labels

I do not have plans for that at the moment because it is rather involved. The API makes it easy to add a label set when the profile is originally created, but doing it after the fact in a separate step is more difficult. You basically have to create each and every label individually. It’s something that I’ve thought about before but I just don’t have time for it now. Sorry.

I’m assuming you’re looking to add alignment and/or profile label sets? Or do you want to access the styles?

[mzjensen]

Regarding dropdowns, you can either try DataShapes or create your own. The latter requires inheriting from this abstract base class. There are lots of examples in the Camber source that I can point you to if needed.

DynamoDS/Dynamo/blob/26527a1ba862b1db2942f78466be902cb44bfdc0/src/Libraries/CoreNodeModels/DropDown.cs#L47

[WrightEngineering]

Zachri,

I believe this is what you’re talking about in the camber source? → Camber/StyleDropDownBase.cs at a4d6e489b03743c15ef60f32840835d2e4ca5d5a · mzjensen/Camber · GitHub
But how would this be implemented in a graph? Would it be added into a python node or something?

[mzjensen]

@WrightEngineering

Would it be added into a python node or something?

No. This is getting into the realm of fully custom nodes with C#.

[WrightEngineering]

Got it. Thanks for clarifying!

[Ahmed.Kamal.Moussa]

All I want is a node for both Profile Label Set & Profile View Band Set to be something like Select Layers & Select Profile Style Nodes shown in the below shot. A drop menu selection showing the current label sets found in the working file.

[WrightEngineering]

I’ll do my best to try to figure it out when I can find some time. Although I have no idea what I’m doing either

[Ahmed.Kamal.Moussa]

Thank you for your answers. I think I found the best solution for now to acquire the drawing Profile Label Set & Profile View Band Set styles and create a drop list/menu for them to be user input, using “Civil3DToolkit” package and especially “DocumentExtensions.GetDocumentStyles” node. Please take a look at the screenshot and tell me if there’s a better solution.

[Varun.H-K]

@Ahmed.Kamal.Moussa can you please share the code for the above post

[Ahmed.Kamal.Moussa]

The above script doesn’t have any code. Do you mean the *.dyn file itself?

[Varun.H-K]

sharing the .dyn would be great.
thanks.