@Tom_Norris I hope you can add the ability to pick objects and obtain element handles, because in AutoCAD handles are more persistent.
We do have the Object Id and Get By Id Components, but I take it you are refereeing to the Handle property on the Autocad Object themselves. Yeah I cant see why we cant add it.
Thank you for your hard work. I hope this tool can be like it is in Revitāunlocking as much of AutoCADās native potential as possible, rather than being limited to simply importing and exporting data between Rhino and AutoCAD.
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Welcome to the Rhino forums @Pan_Cheng .
I know what AutoCAD dynamic blocks are are, I also created a couple of them.
But do you have any example of AutoCAD dynamic blocks automation?
It does not need to be via Grasshopper-AutoCAD connection.
It would be great if you would share with us some video or article or screenshot of what you have in mind. Anything which shows a successful dynamic blocks automation implementation.
Just describing it textually, does not help that much.
Thank you in advance.
Yeah I would love to see what people are using this tech for! As a studio we took a call to make all our construction drawings in Rhino in an effort to keep all data in sync and develop skillset mastery over one software that allows us to do everything. In the process we have developed a lot of grasshopper scripts that allow for a lot of BIM-like automation for stuff like trimming walls, changing door types, automatic wall hatches, extracting floorplate areas and BOQs, etc in 2D drawings (i.e. curves and hatches and annotation objects) and so far we havenāt hit a limit yet other than the a few hiccups in file format exchanges which get ironed out as we learn more about the .3dm format and .dwg format.
That said, if there is anything about Rhino.Inside.AutoCAD that helps to better exchange data between the two software, I hope it percolates down to native Rhino as well since one of the reasons we shifted to Rhino is also the ballooning cost of Autodeskās subscription software.
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This is cool!
I previously built a working demo of something similar (Autocad and Civil3d) but it is great to have this as an official (-ish?) plugin! With a slight modification I got it running inside Civil3d as well with minor issues like Grasshopper component icon grouping changing in a weird way. But nonetheless, the required change seems small, like modifying the PackageContents.xml to include Civil3d.
I think it would be helpful to have Civil3d support built-in to this plugin, and maybe even through open-source community, the C3D-specific objects (Alignments, Corridors and whatnot) could be added one by one to make this a full-featured plugin. But even without them, it would already serve a bunch of users.
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We do have plans to support Civil3d and a very basic prototype already. This is something we are already in discussions with McNeel about and would like to roll out in the coming months, especially if this initial offering gains sufficient traction.
I envisage having a separate GH library which contains the Civil3d-related items, which loads when the RiA is run inside Civil3d, in addition to the current Rhino Inside Autocad GH library. But if you want to help shape this initial offering, any suggestions are welcome. You mention Alignments and Corridors, but are there others that you would like to see supported?
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I talked about this with a C3D-specialist (which I am not), and the list of first features to implement would be something like:
- Alignment
- Profile
- TIN Surface
- Corridor (e.g., Baselines, Baseline Regions)
- Feature Line
- COGO Point
- Property Sets
- Subassembly
- Assembly
- Pipe Network
- Pressure Network
- TIN Volume Surface
And for each the basic Query/Reference, Edit and Create would be nice.
I think even some of these is more useful than none.
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We have added handle support in V1.0.13:
Rhino.Inside.AutoCAD Release Cycle - #6 by Tom_Norris
Is it compatible with other Autocad versions other then vanilla? Architecture, Civil 3d,ā¦?
A Civil 3D is in the works, but at this time its only for Autocad 2024 & above. Architectural Desktop is quite a different product.
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Rhino inside Civil3d would be huge for us bridge designers, very interested.
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@grbl9789 Weāre working on it 
Would you be interested in participating in Alpha testing to help shape the tool?
Absoutely! I can think of a couple more people in my company who would also be interested if you need a few testers.
it maybe off topic , but please also inside.GIS
@Tom_Norris The āPick Multipleā option in the āAutoCAD Block Referenceā component doesnāt work.
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@Pan_Cheng Great catch, thanks! This is now fixed in V1.0.15!
@Tom_Norris Is there any plan to develop support for querying and modifying block attributes?
I can add it to the list of requested features