Opensource CivilConnection and CivilPython

Autodesk’s Global Delivery Consulting (GCD) employees create innovate and impactful tools and solutions for our customers.

Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery employees – Paolo Serra, Ian McGregor and Mohamed Ahmed – turned a manual and error-prone process for transferring data from Civil 3D to Revit into an efficient and scalable solution that enabled real-time information exchange using Dynamo. Over the course of several years, the solution evolved into a popular product feature and eventually moved to open source.

Common Language for Linear Structures

CivilConnection and CivilPython

“CivilConnection is the name of the Dynamo custom package for Dynamo for Revit that enables the Civil 3D – Dynamo – Revit technology stack for Autodesk Consulting engagements that have been known as “Linear Structures.” It enables the usage of a linear reference system defined in an open Civil 3D document (e.g., a corridor, alignment, feature line, etc.) to create and/or update elements in a Revit document. It also enables you…

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