Using the Dynamo Player inside Civil 3D (4:40)

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PRESENTER: Hello.

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And welcome to using the Dynamo Player inside Civil 3D.

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My name is Stacy Morykin, design technology manager

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at Stacey Morykin.

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Finding and using premade Dynamo scripts

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by connecting with the Dynamo community

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is one of the fastest ways to start

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automating repetitive tasks in your daily workflow.

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By using the Dynamo Player and setting appropriate input

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values, you can easily adjust premade Dynamo scripts

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to work with your own designs and view the desired

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results in just one click of the Play button.

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If your design changes, clicking the Play button again

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on the Dynamo Player allows you to quickly make updates

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to your design.

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In this section, we're going to talk

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about running a premade script in the Dynamo Player.

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There are several ways to gain access to a premade Dynamo

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script, the actual DYN file.

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By heading to DynamoBIM.org and searching the forum

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for hashtag Share, you can find many premade Dynamo scripts

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that the community has shared.

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Your organization may have also released shareable Dynamo,

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DYN files with internal teams.

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First, I'll show you the default folder location for the Dynamo

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files before accessing them within the Dynamo Player.

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We are now at running a premade script in the Dynamo Player.

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We'll now flip over to Civil

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and get started.

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By default, Dynamo scripts are stored in the C, program data,

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Autodesk, Civil 3D

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You can find the samples underneath the Samples folder.

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And if you're in the United States, EN-US.

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The scripts found in the Help section within the Dynamo

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can be found in these sub folders.

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I've created a custom folder here

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and placed our create trees along alignment dot dyn

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premade Dynamo script inside of the custom folder.

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Inside of Civil 3D under the Manage tab, Visual Programming

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panel, you'll notice that there's the Dynamo Player.

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Clicking that opens the Dynamo Player dialog box.

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On the top left, you want to click to browse to the folder

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location.

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I've already pathed to the program data, Autodesk, Civil

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Once I click OK, all of the DYN files stored in that folder

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will appear here in the Dynamo Player.

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Each script has three options.

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I can run the script, I can edit the inputs,

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or I can open up this script and edit it in Dynamo.

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I'm going to click on Edit Inputs

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to view the values that I can enter.

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For this particular drawing, I have several alignments.

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My center line alignment here is where

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I would like to place trees.

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This alignment's name is 6272.

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I will enter 6272 under Name of Alignment.

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The interval between those tree blocks,

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I want to enter 50, that will place that block every 50 feet

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along this alignment.

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The next input value asked if I want to include the geometry

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stations.

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The default value is set to false.

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If I want to include that, I would just click to the true

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or turn it off for false.

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Now the block name that I want to enter

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here is going to be tree space 6 as that is already

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a predefined block in my drawing.

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The block layer that I want to enter it

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is going to be C-VEGE for vegetation.

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Once I've entered those input values,

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I'm now going to click the play button to run the scripts

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and you'll notice they now have the tree 6 block every 50 feet

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along my alignment interval.

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To make changes to the interval or make changes to the script,

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I can go back to the Dynamo Player.

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I can change the interval to, let's say, 75

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and run the script again.

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And you'll notice the Dynamo will delete the previous tree

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blocks and now place them in every 75 foot

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intervals along my alignment.

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In the next module, we will open up the Dynamo interface

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and create this script from scratch.