Now that I have both Openroads and SS10 on my machine to see what the future of Bentley / Civil is about, my main task for the company I work for is grading out subdivisions for earthwork quantities. Like 300-500 lots at times along with major Site Plans such as shopping centers. I was given the task for 1. I'm good at it and I've done it since before cad was ever available. And 2. Acad can't do it near as fast or as good for it can't draw "curves". I'm talking 5:1 speed difference trying to fit arcs and lines where curves ran through it. Plus the grab points from curves is far superior to arcs for arc grab points is center and 3 points along the edge which creates a false flat spot.
This was the first thing I went for cause it could very well be a game changer for my direction. I tried to load the old one and of course, different language I guess. Then I went through the mdls available and don't see anything that would work same. I've went through all of the curve commands and nothing compares to the old civtools "place contour by curve". Am I missing something? Is it no longer available? Will it be in the near future? As I recall correctly, Civtools was a originally a secondary developed MDL created by an individual and bought by Bentley.
Civtools was a wonderful tool for manual contours on the fly and could never be matched. You simply can't grade straight in cad without it on the scale in which I use do. If no longer available, I hate to curse but reality is, I'd rather just redline for the acad guys to draft in. And Civil3D does everything else we do.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Jeremy
