Rhino inside Civil 3D

Rhino.Inside
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Is there any chance of rhino working inside civil3D?

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I’m not personally experienced with Civil3d and it’s capabilities. In general, if an application runs as a 64 bit application on Windows and supports some sort of plug-in architecture then it is technically possible to embed Rhino.Inside. This would still require someone to write the Civil3d plug-in though.

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Hi @stevebaer ,

I just tried to load “Rhino.Inside” under Civil 3D.
[“netload” Rhino.Inside(https://github.com/mcneel/rhino.inside.git) ]
It hangs somewhere after verifying the license…

(Plugin.cs: 51) m_rhino_core = new Rhino.Runtime.InProcess.RhinoCore(new[] { $"/scheme={SchemeName}" });

[C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2020\acad.exe /ld “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2020\AecBase.dbx” /product “Map” ]

Any thoughts / Insight would be appreciated…
JR

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Good news to hear. But at the same time what a shame coz I have made several simple scripts in grasshopper that could basically do what Civil 3d can do for road creation but faster just out of automation. I’m no expert but I truly believe Grasshopper can totally beat Civil 3d in functionality and I’m surprised that no one has created a Civil 3d or Infraworks - like plugin for rhino and grasshopper. Probably there is no incentive.

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How do you know this; is there a dialog? Can you send a screenshot of what you are seeing when it hangs?

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Hi…
After reboot and pressing “load always”…It seems to load…
More to come after vacation
Thanks
JR

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Back from vacation and have another question…

There are samples on how to load Rhino / GrassHopper in Revit…
I can’t find a way to load it under Civil 3d…
Is that supported ?
Are there any samples anywhere ?

Thanks
JR

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The source:

– Dale

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Hi Dale,

Thank you for the response…
I saw the Revit source, but the question is if there is
any samples for acad / Civil 3d.
A lot of the code in those samples are Revit specific.

Are there any plans on having the same functionality in ACad / Civil 3d ?
Thanks
JR

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There is a very simple AutoCAD sample here:

I don’t see us (McNeel) producing a Rhino.Inside Autodesk Civil, mostly because nobody here knows anything about it. An opportunity for someone else…

– Dale

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Check out Land Kit. It solves some similar problems.